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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.
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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.
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.
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:Wall Street Unimpressed by Google Earnings
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Microsoft News Tracker
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:MARKET REACTS BADLY TO GOOGLE EARNINGS WITH A PLUNGE
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Keith Teare's Weblog
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 …
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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 …
Adam Pasick / Reuters:Newspapers take aim at Google in copyright dispute
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Techdirt, The Stalwart, Geek News Central …, Center for Citizen Media, THE RAW FEED and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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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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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Scobleizer, Darwinian Web, Tech Digest, TechBlog, Microsoft Watch and Addicted to Digital Media
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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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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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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 …
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) …
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 …
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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IP Democracy
Josh / Bokardo:
The Most Important Statistic of them All — The most important statistic on the Web in the last year is the one delivered in a NYTimes article last week: Like This? You'll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.) [behind paywall ]. The statistic involves media …
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.
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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InsideGoogle
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
FM Media Signs Digg — Disclaimer: I recently joined FM Media and am one of the bloggers in their network. — ChasNote: Is Digg the New Slashdot? In a huge addition to their Network, Chas Edwards, VP for sales and market development at FM Media, has blogged that Digg has recently signed up with FM.
