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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Leaves the Internet — Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic …
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Andree Toonk / BGPmon.net Blog:
Internet in Egypt offline — Different media are reporting that Internet and other forms of electronic communications are being disrupted in Egypt. Presumably after a government order in response to the protests. Looking at BGP data we can confirm that according to our analysis 88% …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook says has seen drop in traffic from Egypt — (Reuters) - Facebook has seen a drop in traffic to its Web site from Egypt on Thursday amid anti-government protests in that country, the company said. — “We are aware of reports of disruption to service and have seen a drop in traffic …
SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online — Every quarter Microsoft reports earnings, and every quarter it reports a massive loss in its online operations. Today it reported a $543 million loss for its December quarter. — This gives Microsoft a trailing-four-quarter loss of $2.5 billion.
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Microsoft Reports Record $0.77 Earnings Per Share in Second Quarter — Holiday sales and business demand drive record revenue. — Redmond, Wash. - Jan. 27, 2011 - Microsoft Corp. today announced record second-quarter revenue of $19.95 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows 7: 300 Million Licenses Sold
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PC Magazine, GeekSmack, Softpedia News, MSDN Blogs and WinRumors
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
What you should know about LinkedIn's IPO — You've probably seen that professional networking site LinkedIn filed for its initial public offering today. Now that the first wave of excitement has died down, let's take a look at the most relevant facts about the company and its IPO plans, drawn primarily from the filing:
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Steve Sordello / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn files registration statement for Initial Public Offering — Ed. Note: We'd like to share with you the press announcement related to our filing registration statement for a proposed Initial Public Offering. — LinkedIn Corporation announced today that it has filed a registration statement …
eMarketer:
Who Will Win the Android vs. iPhone Race? — Google's mobile OS will be on top by year-end 2012 — The iPhone may have captured the hearts and minds of many tech-savvy early smartphone adopters—not to mention marketers—with its sleek design, multitouch interface and available apps.
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Internet2Go, Mobile Entertainment, TechCrunch and Electronista
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Samsung hits all-time record revenue in 2010; dual-core Galaxy S2 & multiple Galaxy Tabs incoming — Samsung has announced its 2010 financial figures, and there are strong results for the company's mobile business. Mobile device sales in Q4 2010 topped 80.7m, up 17-percent compared to Q4 2009, with 280m sales for the whole of 2010.
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Tim Bradshaw / FT tech hub:
Tweetdeck busts the 140-character limit with Deck.ly — Tweetdeck, the software for social-media ‘power users’, is today unveiling Deck.ly, the latest strand of its plan to ease its dependence on Twitter and become a greater platform in itself. — At a basic level, Deck.ly allows Tweetdeck users …
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft Considering Whether to Bring Office to Apple's Mac App Store — Microsoft says it continues to be pleased with sales of the Mac version of Office, but has not yet decided whether to offer the product or any of its components in the Mac version of the App Store, which launched earlier this month.
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TUAW, Erictric, MacStories, AppleInsider, FT tech hub, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacNN, The Loop and everythingiCafe
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: “We Had Our First $10 Billion Quarter” — Amazon just released results for its for its fourth quarter ending December 31, 2010. The company's sales came in at $12.95 billion, which is up 36 percent from $9.52 billion in fourth quarter 2009.
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Amazon's Sales Grow 36%; Sells More E-Books than Paperbacks
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Shelly Palmer Digital Living
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Four Big Projects Facebook Should Launch, and Probably Will-Even Though It Says It Won't — Steve Jobs is famous for publicly dismissing a market shortly before Apple enters it. And Mark Zuckerberg and his team seem to have some Steve Jobs in them: There are several obvious product launches coming …
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WebProNews and Inside Facebook
Ken Florance / The Netflix Tech Blog:
Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks — Hi there. This is Ken Florance, Director of Content Delivery here at Netflix. — As we continue to stream more and more great movies and TV shows, we find ourselves in the unique position of having insight into the performance of hundreds …
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Victoria Barret / Forbes:
Box.net And The Freemium Business App — Forbes Magazine dated February 14, 2011 — A band of newcomers is changing how business apps are bought and sold. … Aaron Levie is one of those 26-year-old technology chief executives who make no attempt to look older than their age.
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Bono's Silicon Valley Soap Opera — The rocker's days as a tech mogul could be ending: A key founding partner is ditching Bono's private-equity firm, Elevation, in a nasty spat that's going public, just as the company is trying to launch a second investment fund.
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Google's Schmidt wants to set the record straight — Eric Schmidt opens up about his company's executive shuffle, whether or not Facebook poses a threat, and where Google is competing with Apple. — Image via Wikipedia — The media speculation about why Eric Schmidt is ceding the Google …
Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence:
LivingSocial Closing the Gap — Let's face it, $6 billion is a lot of money, especially considering the hyper-innovation we're seeing in the social buying space. — In a previous post less then two months ago we analyzed the difference between Groupon and LivingSocial visitors.
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SAI, Mashable!, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews and Screenwerk
Andrew Chen / @andrewchen:
Quora stats: 150% growth in January, 160k monthly actives, 18k daily actives (lower bound estimate via Facebook app data) — I ♥ Quora. Oh yes, I'm a fanboy. — As my many of my friends and family know, I love Quora and get a ton of value out of it.
William Gibson / New York Times:
25 Years of Digital Vandalism — IN January 1986, Basit and Amjad Alvi, sibling programmers living near the main train station in Lahore, Pakistan, wrote a piece of code to safeguard the latest version of their heart-monitoring software from piracy. They called it Brain, and it was basically a wheel-clamp for PCs.
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James Sterngold / Business Week:
Say Goodbye to All Those Passwords — The Commerce Dept. is backing a new security system for online identity checks that could be a boon for e-commerce — The convenience promised by the Internet often seems to evaporate when you log in every morning. First comes the user name …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Verizon to Acquire Terremark for $1.4 Billion — The NAP of the Americas, the huge Terremark data center in downtown Miami. Verizon says it will buy Terremark (and the NAP) for $1.4 billion. — Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal …
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David / TmoNews:
(Updated: New Pic!) Sidekick 4G In The Wild! — Update: A couple of things have been pointed out, one it absolutely looks like there is a front facing camera present. Secondly, you can clearly see the Samsung etched logo on the back of the device. Most important, it seemingly retains …
