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Paul R. La Monica / CNN:
Google: Party over — Search engine leader's sales meet expectations but earnings miss targets; stock clobbered. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - It had to end some time. — Before Google, the iconic search engine, reported its fourth quarter results Tuesday, the company had crushed Wall Street's sales …
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Bloomberg:
Google 4th-Qtr Profit Rises 82%; Results Initially Disappoint — Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, said fourth-quarter profit rose 82 percent as the company sold more advertising over the holidays and took market share from Yahoo! Inc.
The TNL.net weblog:
Googling Netscape — The Google stock is getting hurt in after hours trading as the company's earnings disappointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for executives at Google to look at history and, hopefully, not repeat it. The history I am talking about, in particular …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google stumbles with first earnings miss — update Google's honeymoon with the stock market took a breather on Tuesday as the search giant missed earnings expectations for the first time since it went public in 2004, sending its stock price into an after-hours trading spiral.
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Wall Street Unimpressed by Google Earnings — Google Inc. revenue and profit rose more than 80 percent in the fourth quarter, to earnings of $372 million ($1.22 a share) on revenue of $1.9 billion, the company said yesterday. — But Google's stock price fell sharply in after-hours trading …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Silicon Valley Shrugs Off Google Hiccup — Silicon Valley is leaving knee jerk reactions to Google's lukewarm quarter to the Wall Street crowd. That was the finding of my reporting yesterday after the search giant reported its earnings. I filed this report for CNN Money, that went live this morning.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Newspapers want search engines to pay — The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back. — Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos …
Jim Rapoza / eWEEK.com:
IE 7 Beta 2 Shows Progress — Microsoft's slow march to regain momentum in the Web browser market continues with the Jan. 31 preview release of Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7. The beta shows a lot of good progress, but, as we've said with almost every new IE release we've reviewed, it's still playing catch-up.
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Owen Thomas / CNN:
Rival trashes Google's growth prospects — A Yahoo programmers says Google's numbers won't be enough to help it meet its revenue growth forecast of 30 percent. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.) - Granted, he works for the competition, but Amr Awadallah's post about Google's earnings announcement earlier …
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Beth Dillon / gamergod.com:
GUN Misfires — Custer's Revenge hit retail shelves during the advent of console videogames in the 1980's. In the Atari 2600 videogame, the player takes the role of a pixilated, naked General George Armstrong Custer, the historic military officer who devastated American Indian communities prior …
Mike / Techdirt:
Could Newspaper Owners Really Be This Clueless? — Just as stories are hitting the press about slow-to-innovate newspapers finally embracing the internet comes the news that a bunch of newspapers are quite upset that Google drives more traffic to their websites. This isn't a first.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's OneCare firewall draws fire — The firewall component in Microsoft's Windows OneCare security bundle has holes, experts have warned. — The security software, available in a public beta version, by default allows applications that use the Java Virtual Machine or have a digital signature to connect to the Internet.
San Francisco Chronicle:
CW NEVIUS — Podcasts, blogs and Dave Barry — Dave Barry is one funny guy. His column, which has run in the Miami Herald for more than 20 years, has appeared in more than 500 newspapers. He's written more than 20 books, all of them big sellers. — So when he came to town last Friday …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Online Storage Gang — The online storage market is evolving fast. In the past, users could expect no more than a simple service where files could be slowly uploaded and downloaded from a mapped virtual drive or a simple web based interface. Little competition (and the bursting of the bubble) …
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Verizon Lays It on the Line — CEO Sticks By Costly Rollout of Fiber-Optic Network — His company's stock has sunk, its debt has been downgraded, and its investment in a new fiber-optic network is regarded by some as a pipe dream, but Verizon Communications Inc.'s chief executive is certain he is doing the right thing.
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
IE 7: THE GEEK RELEASE — Microsoft released a new Internet Explorer testing version today, so rad that it's special enough to be called a Beta Preview. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview is the first widely available test build for Windows XP. But while available for anyone …
Mike / Techdirt:
You've Already Paid $2,000 For A Fiber Connection You'll Never Get — As the Baby Bells falsely complain about how people aren't paying them for the internet, or whine about how it's unfair to expect them to compete against muni-broadband, there's something important to remember.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
CableCARD certification rules out home-built Windows MCE boxes, possibly other DIY solutions — If CES has left you salivating over Vista's upcoming support for CableCARD, pay attention, because important details are emerging—and they could well affect your purchasing decision.
Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Google Growth to Come From Traditional Media — In its earnings conference call today, Google (Quote, Chart) laid out ambitious plans to create a unified advertising platform that could sell and deliver ads to print, radio, television and streaming media, including podcasts and Google Video.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Ask and you may receive (a mashup) — Wow. Yesterday, Berkman Center fellow David Isenberg publicized his request for a mashup that allows the public to create its own coverage map for the cellular services. He posted it on the Mashups We Want page over at the Mashup Camp web site.
Reuters:
Google profit miss raises question of disclosure — What did Google know, when did it know it, and should its executives have said anything about it in the first place? — Google blamed a higher-than-expected tax rate for its earnings miss on Tuesday, which shaved $US15.3 billion from the leading Web search company's market value.
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