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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Collaborating with Marratech — As a company, we thrive on casual interactions and spontaneous collaboration. So we're excited about acquiring Marratech's video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participation for Googlers in videoconference meetings wherever there's an Internet connection.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory — After reporting a monster fiscal quarter (the company has close to $12 billion in cash sitting around now and has hired nearly 2,000 new employees this year), Google made a quiet announcement on its corporate blog tonight …
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Business Wire:
Google Announces First Quarter 2007 Results — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2007. — "The global growth of our core search and ads business and our focus on building our partnerships drove …
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Google Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Larry Page - Founder, President of Products — Sergey Brin - Founder, President of Technology — Jonathan Rosenberg - SVP, Product Management — Omid Kordestani - SVP, Global Sales and Operations — Analysts
Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Google's Profit Rises 69% as Advertising Sales Gain (Update2) — April 19 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, said first-quarter profit rose 69 percent as it increased advertising sales worldwide and took more market share from Yahoo! Inc.
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Guardian Unlimited, ZDNet, Valleywag, Got Ads?, IP Democracy, Startup Meme, Tech Beat, John Furrier and Search Engine Land
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Your slice of the web — I'll probably visit more than 100 web pages today, and so will hundreds of millions of people. Printed and bound together, the web pages you'll visit in just one day are probably bigger than the book sitting on your night table. Over the next month alone, that's an entire bookcase full!
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History — Google's Search History feature, which was switched on as a default option for many Google searchers in February, has now been renamed Web History to reflect how it has expanded to track what Google users do as the surf the web.
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SEO by the SEA, WebMetricsGuru, rexblog.com, ResourceShelf, V7N Search Marketing News and Pronet Advertising
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Petition Against Alexa's Statsaholic Lawsuit — To join this this petition, please scroll to the bottom and leave a comment expressing your support for Statsaholic. — Update: Commenters are proposing boycotts of Amazon coverage in the blogosphere, in addition to their services and the Alexa toolbar.
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Rod / TechFold:Boooo to Amazon - Suing Statsaholic: Amazon API/ECS Boycott time?
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:Amazon sues Statsaholic...Web as Platform is Bullsh*t
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franticindustries, Techdirt, 606Tech, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Slashdot, alarm:clock and digg
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace News...Kinda Sucks — Update: Ironically, I just saw this post at the top of MySpace News. Feel free to vote for it. — Mashable was the first blog to announce the imminent launch of MySpace News on Wednesday evening, but now the site is live, it seems to, well, suck a little bit.
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:HANDS-ON WITH MYSPACE NEWS: FAR FROM A DIGG KILLER
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George Ou:
Fear and anger erupt over $3 Microsoft Suite — By now, most people have heard that Microsoft will be selling a $3 version of Windows XP Starters Edition along with Office and some other educational software to students in the third world, but fear and anger have erupted in some circles in the Internet community.
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg API, Flash Application Toolkit, and Contest Announced! — Many of you have been asking about the Digg API and I'm happy to announce that it is now publicly available at services.digg.com along with a Flash application toolkit. This will be a great tool for Digg users and partners …
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Laughing Squid, TechCrunch, franticindustries, Pronet Advertising, parislemon and Mashable!
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Most frequently visited websites - not what you'd expect — March's Comscore numbers just came out. I took a look at the top 2000 web domains, but this time I ranked them by number of visits per month. The results were a little surprising. Here are the 41 sites that were visited 10 times …
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Pronet Advertising
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Big Money in Little Screens — Searching the Web on a mobile phone has been a lot like getting online via dial-up modem circa 1995: slow, tedious and not terribly useful. Typing on tiny buttons, squinting at a list of links and clicking through to a page that won't display properly is enough to test anyone's patience.
John Musser / ProgrammableWeb:
Google AJAX Feed API — Google this week announced the release of the Google AJAX Feed API. What is it? It's a JavaScript library that lets you mashup RSS and Atom feeds entirely on the client, thus no need for server-side coding. In addition, one of the useful core features …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Lots of new stuff just added to Spaces — Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it's now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces.
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Sue Polinsky / Download Squad:
10 rules for your small business home page — If you're in business and reading this article, chances are your company has a Web site. Before we all go to Web 2.0, does your site measure up to Web 1.0? Let's check how your site stands up to Web pages that "suck."
