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buygoogle.com:
What the analysts missed - — I could write another glowing post about Google's dazzling results, but I've done that many times before. If you want to read about how rare and wonderful it is that a member of the S&P 500 can sustain an incredible growth rate while simultaneously increasing margins …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Posts 60% Gain in Earnings — Google returned to favor among investors yesterday as its profit for the first quarter increased 60 percent, well above expectations. — Three months ago, the company disappointed investors, even though its profit grew 82 percent, and its stock sagged.
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Google's Ad-Grabbing Pushes Profit Up 60% — Google Inc. continues to take advertising dollars from traditional media such as television and print classifieds and is doing so in greater amounts than online rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, the company reported yesterday as it posted a 60 percent surge in profit.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE LOST A $BILLION IN UNSPENT ADS — BuyGoogle's got the fascinating tidbits from the Google earnings announcement conference call, including this biggie: Over a billion dollars in ad money that was allocated to Google went unspent. Although the period in which this happened is unclear …
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Artist's family asks Google to take down Thursday's `painted' logo — After angering authors last fall with a wide-ranging book-copying project, Google may now be alienating some visual artists as well by allegedly reproducing famous works in drawings on the search giant's home page.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Vitalsecurity.org, Alec Saunders .LOG, IP Democracy, Like It Matters, Copyfight, CyberNet Technology News, Sunbelt BLOG, Digital Inspiration, Search Engine Watch Blog, Cameron's Brain, Silicon Valley Sleuth, InsideGoogle, Guardian Unlimited, Techdirt, Valleywag and SiliconBeat
Rhys Blakely / Times of London:
eBay explores 'super union' to thwart Google — The prospect of a "super-union" between two or more of the internet's most powerful companies was raised today as news emerged that eBay has held talks with Yahoo! and Microsoft over a possible partnership designed to thwart the advance of arch-rival Google.
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Jeffrey Young's Technicon, Digital Inspiration, Good Morning Silicon Valley and BetaNews
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Euan Semple / The Obvious?:
A word or two on conferences — I have to say that I am really looking forward to the Blogs and Social Media Forum that I am chairing in May. — When the idea was first suggested to me I was really unsure about saying yes. I have become very wary of being taken advantage …
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Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Why Google is extending RSS — Jeff Jarvis picked up on my post the other day about GData, Google's new syndication protocol which is an extension of both RSS and Atom. Like most people, Jeff isn't sure what this means - and neither is Dave Winer. I'm in the same boat …
CNET News.com:
Apple argues for blogger records — SAN JOSE, Calif.—Apple Computer faced tough questioning Thursday in its bid to gain access to electronic records of Mac enthusiast sites that published leaked details of an unreleased product. — Although a lower court ruled last year that Apple …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law — Story last modified Fri Apr 21 12:04:38 PDT 2006 — Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.
Kristin Huguet / Apple:
Apple Offers Free Computer Take-Back Program — Apple Named One of Top Ten Environmentally Progressive Companies — CUPERTINO, California—April 21, 2006—Apple® today announced an expansion of its successful recycling program, offering free computer take-back and recycling with the purchase …
Wired News:
Is the Internet Out of Room? — NEW YORK — The internet is supposed to be limitless — a boundary-free exchange of digital information and profit. So how can it be running out of real estate? — The answer, according to information technology experts, lies in cyberspace's ever-growing popularity.
Macgyver / Forever Geek:
Responding to Kevin's Non-Response Post — This is not a 'conspiracy theory.' This is about how Digg is not what it claims to be. Kevin Rose and the rest are not conspiring against ForeverGeek - they are simply using the system in a fashion exactly opposite to what they claim (a non editorial website).
Stuart Ellott / New York Times:
Television Stations Are Urged to Break a Few Rules — THE expression "think outside the box" has been overused enough to become jargon. But for a few hours yesterday it was appropriate, as local television stations were urged to diversify beyond their boxes, i.e., TV sets, to remain relevant …
mobiledia.com:
Motorola Cell Phone Alerts Users by Therapeutic Massage — Motorola has patented a system that allows a cell phone to set off electrodes on a stimulator pad, alerting users of incoming calls. — According to the patent application, current cell phones have tried to silently notify …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Firefox fanatics decide to make money by punishing users — Last night I spent an hour or two visiting unfamiliar websites while researching a topic for an upcoming column. In the process, I discovered a new and exceedingly obnoxious trend: Some members of the Firefox community have decided …
Wired News:
Typo Confounds Kryptos Sleuths — For more than a decade, amateur and professional cryptographers have been trying to decipher an encrypted sculpture that sits on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Three-fourths of the sculpture has already been solved.
