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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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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Earnings Disappoint; Shares Plunge — Google Fourth-Quarter Profit Fails to Meet Analysts' Expectations; Shares Plummet 15.5 Percent — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc.'s rapid financial growth decelerated in the fourth quarter as the online search leader's profit fell below analyst expectation …
Eric Auchard / biz.yahoo.com:
Google profit misses Street target, shares tumble — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Google Inc. (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News) fell as much as 19 percent on Tuesday after the Web search company widely missed Wall Street earnings targets due to relatively weak British results which led to a high tax rate.
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.
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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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:MARKET REACTS BADLY TO GOOGLE EARNINGS WITH A PLUNGE
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google calls upon VoIP — Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has contracted with a Florida-based company to provide Internet telephony services for its free click-to-call service, which lets people speak with advertisers on its search results without having to pick up the phone and dial.
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Adam Pasick / Reuters:
Newspapers take aim at Google in copyright dispute — DUBLIN (Reuters) - A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search engines like Google that aggregate news content. — The move comes as the newspaper industry's traditional business model …
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Search engines challenged on 'theft' — A group of newspaper, magazine and book publishers is accusing Google and other aggregators of online news stories of unfairly exploiting their content. They are demanding compensation from search engines. — Gavin O'Reilly, the president …
IEBlog:
Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview — Hi, I'm Al Billings. I'm a project manager on the Internet Explorer team. I haven't posted before but you have probably seen comments from me from time to time on the blog. I'm involved in the regular work with it.
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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) …
Reuters:
Microsoft to Set Rules for Government Blog Complaints — LISBON (Reuters)—Microsoft has pledged to create rules on how it will deal with government complaints about Web sites and blogs hosted by the U.S. software giant. — Following concerns on how Microsoft pulled the blog of a critic …
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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.
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 …
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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Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
Google denies plans to distribute OS based on Ubuntu — A post on the Register, claiming that Google might be close to rolling out a "Goobuntu" Linux desktop distro, has been making the usual rounds in the tech news circuit today. Despite today being earnings release day …
CNN:
Bad reception awaits in-flight phones — (CNN) — From crying babies to low-quality catering, flying is full of irritations, but these may all soon be eclipsed by the introduction of in-flight cell phones. — A new survey has found that the majority of business travelers are opposed …
