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Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
GOOG Analysis: The Massive Mystery In Google's Finances And Why This Is Bad For Publishers — Google [$GOOG] reported stellar 2011 Q2 earnings but Google's partner sites, which used to account for half of its revenues, showed a massive lag in growth. — The partner sites are part …
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Google Announces Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. — “We had a great quarter, with revenue up 32% year on year for a record breaking over $9 billion of revenue,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Larry Page Sounded Like A True CEO Today — Make no mistake: Larry Page is in charge. Today, he showed it. — We were beginning to worry — since he took over, there have been a bunch of press reports and books describing him as a recluse, a little bit shy, a little bit arrogant.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Larry Page On Android Patent Problems: “There Hasn't Been Any Slow Down”
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Between the Lines Blog and SlashGear
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Being Shared Per Day
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Back On Track In Q2, Beats The Street With Over $9 Billion In Revenue
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InfoWorld, PC World, AndroidGuys, Electricpig.co.uk, The Next Web, Reuters, Android Community, WebProNews, The Business Insider, Tools and Tech Trader Daily
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google CEO Page On Toothbrushes, Google+, Competitors, Surprises
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
New MacBook Airs Coming Next Week, Not This Week — Still waiting for the MacBook Air refresh? You can put your credit card down for a bit. Although many speculated it would, Apple didn't bring the new machines to market today. And it's not going to do so tomorrow, either.
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Natasha Mohanty / Google News Blog:
Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand? — Starting today, in the U.S. edition of Google News …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Verizon LTE Phones Probably Incompatible With AT&T — Thinking of unlocking a Verizon Wireless LTE phone for use on AT&T's network, or vice versa? Think again. Verizon Wireless confirmed today that its LTE phones will not “be compatible on other LTE networks in the U.S.” because …
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Engadget, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, iPhone, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET News, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and PhoneDog.com
J.B. / Fusible.com:
New Microsoft social search service called Tulalip revealed on socl.com — Yesterday I discovered Microsoft was the new owner of the domain socl.com by chance, when I was trying to learn more about the mystery buyer of social.com. — A teaser landing page has been revealed online today …
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Alyson Shontell / The Business Insider:
Justin Timberlake Invests In A Super Stealth Startup, Dekko — It looks like Justin Timberlake was just getting his feet wet when he invested in Myspace last week and Stipple in November. — He's also investing in a super stealth startup called Dekko, we heard from a single source directly involved in the startup's financing.
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Millsd / Identity at Mozilla:
Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in — Today we're excited to announce BrowserID: an experimental new way of signing into websites. Our goal with BrowserID was to design something safe and easy for users and the developers. We'd love for you to try it out and let us know what you think.
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Reuters:
Oracle wants to question Google's Larry Page — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp wants to question Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page in the course of high stakes patent litigation between the two companies, according to a court filing. — Oracle sued Google last year, claiming …
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The Digital Home, Between the Lines Blog, Hillicon Valley, FOSS Patents, The Next Web, TechEye, Inquirer and Electronista
Bob Sutor:
IBM to donate Symphony code to Apache for consideration — Six weeks ago I noted here that Oracle had to decided to offer the codebase for OpenOffice.org, the open source word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software suite to the Apache Software Foundation.
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Inquirer, Open Source Blog and The Register
Ruth Brown / Willamette Week:
The Blogfather — MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey put the blog in blogosphere. Now he looks to the future. — Thirty-five miles from Portland is the home of one of Oregon's hottest tech properties. It's a long way from the “Silicon Forest” of local startups.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Millennial: Android tops mobile OS usage for 7th straight month, iPhone still top device — Millennial issued its June Mobile Mix report Friday morning, and it paints a picture that is very similar to May. Android was once again the most popular smartphone operating system in the month …
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ReadWriteMobile, ZDNet, Millennial Media and TechCrunch
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google launches Photovine app for Apple's iPhone, not Android — Google quietly launched yet another new social networking effort this week — a new photo-sharing app called Photovine for the Apple iPhone. — Yes, the iPhone. Which runs Apple's iOS, the smartphone operating system nemesis of Google's Android.
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Appolicious Advisor, SocialTimes.com, ZOMGitsCj, FM Blog, Techie Buzz, Geek.com, 9to5Mac and iThinkDifferent
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
French copyright cops: we're swamped with “three strikes” complaints — Hadopi, the French agency charged with implementing France's stringent “three strikes” copyright enforcement program, has released new statistics that shed light on the logistical challenges of getting a nation …
Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org:
The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer — I'm old enough to remember a time before the Internet. I know what it's like to develop software both with and without a worldwide network. — Little has changed with the process of software development since the 1980's.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
RIM said to be prepping Apple TV competitor for fall launch — Research In Motion is currently working on a media box codenamed “BlackBerry Cyclone” that will launch later this fall, BlackBerry news site NerdBerry.net reports. The rumored media hub is said to be similar to Apple's iOS-based Apple TV box …
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NerdBerry.net, Softpedia News, FT Tech Hub, MediaFile, Electronista and The Business Insider
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Japan Earthquake Pushes Sony Ericsson To A Q2 Loss; Smartphones Account For 70 Percent Of Sales — Sony Ericsson released its quarterly earnings this morning, reporting a surprise loss for Q2 2011 and declining sales. The earthquake that hit Japan earlier this year has a lot to do with the slump …
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9to5Google, Reuters, Market Wire, Electronista, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, PalmAddicts, Guardian and SlashGear
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Microsoft says it will have a ‘single ecosystem’ for PCs, tablets, phones, and TVs... and is ‘Windows’ dead? — So here's an interesting coincidence: Tuesday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, Andy Lees said that the Redmond would eventually have just a “single ecosystem” for PCs, phones, tablets, and even the TV.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
One big Windows world. It's coming, but when and how?
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