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eBay Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results — Reports Record Q2 Net Revenues of $1.83 Billion — Delivers Q2 GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.27 and Non-GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.34 — Company Repurchases $344 Million of Common Stock in Q2 — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Fake Steve Jobs lashes out against 'invasions of privacy' — The writer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs appeared to break character Wednesday in decrying "invasions of privacy" that have the anonymous author rattled. — Fake Steve Jobs, as he or she has come to be known …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
So when Apple goes after bloggers, we're evil. But when Valleywag does it, it's entertainment. — I've been debating whether to post anything about this. But here goes. Sorry I was out of the loop a bit the last few days. Life is tough when you're on the lam.
Brandon McCormick / Google:
Google Expands Print Advertising Program — Program makes newspaper print advertising available to hundreds of thousands of Google advertisers creating new revenue opportunities for publishers — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the expansion of the size and the scope of its Google Print Ads™ advertising initiative.
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Google: Newspaper Ads More Trustworthy Than AdWords — Google's big, bad coopetitiion problem is rearing its ugly head once again. — CEO Eric Schmidt rises to the defense of "planning and buying traditional newspaper media in both national and local newspapers":
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service — An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup - Ooma - launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but at drastically reduced prices.
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
HP remains No. 1 in PCs — Hewlett-Packard continued its sprint ahead of the competition in the second quarter of 2007, remaining the No. 1 PC vendor in the world. While Dell continued to decline in units shipped, Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba each outpaced the worldwide PC market growth rate of 12.5 percent, according to IDC.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scholastic Loses It Over Harry Potter/BitTorent Story — It didn't take long for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, to send us a takedown notice for our post "The Latest Harry Potter Book Hits BitTorrent." — In an email yesterday, Mark S. Seidenfeld …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Microsoft teams with JiWire to offer ad-based muni Wi-Fi — Microsoft is teaming up with advertising technology provider JiWire to offer advertisements on municipal Wi-Fi networks. — The companies are testing the new advertising service in Portland, Ore., and Oakland County, Mich.
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone + Disposable Cellphone + Prepaid Cards + New Activation Tool = Holy Cow — Holy cow. Those guys at fusion.osx86.hu/#iphone are geniuses. Late yesterday, I downloaded a copy of iASign, their new iPhone activation tool. Right now, at this second, my iPhone just made its first call using …
Microsoft:
Sit, Stay, Chat! Explore a Virtual World, Make New Friends and Play Games With GoPets on Windows Live Messenger — Microsoft Casual Games and GoPets bring people, pets and games together in a global social networking experience. — Whether they're having another day at the office …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
$298 Wal-Mart PC features OpenOffice.org, no crapware — Looking to get a jump on the lucrative back-to-school shopping season, Wal-Mart has begun selling a sub-$300 PC. The Everex IMPACT GC3502 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic and OpenOffice.org 2.2 installed on a system that includes …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Plaxo Could Be the Open Facebook — Plaxo recently launched a new 3.0 version that was more than just an AJAX face lift. Plaxo, once a notorious spammer, has grown beyond their core service of being the web's address book. The new version not only synchronizes contact information …
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Unofficial Gmail Apps and Add-ons — Gmail's huge success owes itself in large part to the wide range of applications, browser add-ons, styles, scripts and bookmarklets that work with it. From the get-go Google's stayed out of developers' way and turned a blind eye …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Can Fans Save Business 2.0? — Facebook Group Aims to Protect Time Inc. Title From Scrapheap — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Can Business 2.0 become the "Jericho" of magazine publishing? "Jericho," of course, is the once-canceled CBS show that was revived after fans deluged the network with pleas to continue it.
Geek Entertainment TV:
Dontcha Wish Your Cell Phone Was Hot Like Me? — Today marks the first day of working with GoDaddy.com, our new sponsor. You will see a custom post-roll ad we did for them at the end of all our videos. Thanks to Dina, Susan, Justin and Mike over at blip.tv, our favorite video hosting service, for making this happen.
