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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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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.
Discussion: CNN
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 …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
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.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Big Results at Google Fall Short
Discussion: Search Engine Lowdown
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Wall Street Unimpressed by Google Earnings
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Google: Fun While It Lasted
Discussion: Rough Type and ben barren
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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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.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Search engines challenged on 'theft'
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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Amr / Amr Awadallah Blog:
Google Missed: I told you so :)
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
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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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.
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.
Discussion: InsideGoogle
computerandvideogames.com:
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 …
Discussion: Kotaku
Christopher Allen / Life With Alacrity:
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".
Discussion: house of warwick
Wendy Davis / MediaPost Publications:
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.
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.
Discussion: IP Democracy
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 …
Discussion: Blue's News and Clickable Culture
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 …

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