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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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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 …

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.
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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 …
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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.

Search engines challenged on 'theft'
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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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IE 7 Beta 2 Shows Progress
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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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Google Missed: I told you so :) — First, I was pleasantly surprised to see that CNN Money quoted and linked to my blog (just a few hours before my prediction came true, I made this prediction about more than 2 weeks ago): — "Rival trashes Google's growth prospects"
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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.

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.

On Being an Angel — In the last month or so I've received a number of links to Life With Alacrity as a venture capital blog, and to myself as a venture capitalist. — However, I don't consider myself a venture capitalist. Instead, I am what is known as an "angel investor".
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Survey: Advertisers Say Search Ads On Google Better Than Yahoo, MSN — MARKETERS BELIEVE THAT SEARCH ADS on Google will yield better results than search ads on Yahoo, MSN, or other engines, according to a new study released Tuesday by research company Outsell.

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 …

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.

An Open Letter to Myra Borshoff Cook, Tour Organizer for Jack Kerouac's On the Road Manuscript Scroll — Jack Kerouac's original manuscript of "On The Road" — Dear Ms. Borshoff Cook: — Recently I wrote an article expressing my displeasure over not being able to photograph Jack Kerouac's …

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.
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JOHN ROMERO TO TRUMP THE WOW FACTOR — World Exclusive: Industry veteran John Romero to venture forth into the MMO world with latest project — 17:17 In summer 2005, John Romero's stint at Midway came to an end. The ex-id Software and ex-Ion Storm staffer had joined the company in 2003 …
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