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10:35 PM ET, January 31, 2008

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Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2007 Results — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. — “We're very pleased with our performance this quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.

Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Wall Street Journal, Digital Daily, HipMojo.com, IP Democracy, Epicenter, Tech Beat, Tech Trader Daily and VentureBeat

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:

Google: Social Networking Inventory Not Monetizing As Well As Expected; Trouble At MySpace? — Speaking on the company's post-earnings conference call, Google (GOOG) CFO George Reyes said the company has found that “social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected,” …

Discussion: Techland, HipMojo.com, WebProNews, Bits, mathewingram.com/work and Creative Capital

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:

Google's quarter falls short of expectations; Social networking not monetizing well — Google on Thursday reported fourth quarter net income of $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a share, on revenue of $4.83 billion, up 51 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges Google reported earnings of $4.43 a share.

Discussion: HipMojo.com, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, WebProNews, LinuxWorld.com, Googlified, Valleywag and Computerworld

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Google Misses Revs/EPS...and Pulls Out the “Display” Card — Google missed consensus revenue and EPS estimates. Stock down 7% in after-market. Revenue shortfall on Google Sites (vs. affiliates), due to a shortfall in paid-click growth (startling deceleration). Adjusted operating income slightly light.

Discussion: HipMojo.com, Search Engine Watch Blog and Valleywag

Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Surprise, Surprise, Social Networking Ads Suck

Discussion: CNET News.com and Futuristic Play

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Google: We're going under — sell, sell!

Discussion: ParisLemon, Silicon Alley Insider and Paul Kedrosky's …

Tim Coulter / Joyeur:

Twitter and Joyent: Update — By David Young 31 January 08 — Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday's posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate …

Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch, Dembot, Download Squad, Twitter Blog, ParisLemon, The Last Podcast, Data Center Knowledge and Valleywag

Twitter Blog:

We had a rough night. But now we're back. — I just left the office, at 6am, with most of our engineering and technical operations team. That's only a handful of people, but we were all there all night. — You may have noticed we had an outage last night/stretching into this morning.

Discussion: Epicenter, Irregular Enterprise, ParisLemon and Data Center Knowledge

MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Twitter's struggles harm more than just the users

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why does Twitter go down?

Discussion: WinExtra and Mark Evans

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Motorola to Explore Structural and Strategic Realignment of its Businesses to Enhance Shareholder Value — Company will evaluate alternatives to accelerate the ability of its Mobile Device Business to recapture growth and profitability in an expanding global market

Discussion: Between the Lines, Wall Street Journal, Unwired View, GigaOM, Engadget, Electronista, Phone Scoop, Silicon Alley Insider, last100, TechCrunch and IntoMobile

Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Motorola Hangs Up on Handsets

Discussion: Tech Confidential and Computerworld

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Motorola considers cell phone biz spinoff

Discussion: New York Times

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million. — We've gotten word that Yahoo will make an acquisition announcement of a video startup today or tomorrow. At first we thought the target might be Metacafe, which was almost acquired by Yahoo just following the Google/YouTube deal in 2006.

Discussion: CNET News.com and Silicon Alley Insider

Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Yahoo to Acquire Maven Networks for $160M-$170M

Discussion: HipMojo.com and paidContent.org

Michal Lev-Ram / Techland:

Google gets its way with new wireless network — Somewhere in the Googleplex, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are celebrating right about now. — That's because the Internet search giant Thursday scored its first big win in the mobile business: The minimum $4.6 billion bid …

Discussion: Bits, Ars Technica, Rev2.org, New York Times, Epicenter and The Technology Chronicles

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

Ad Growth Still Strong, Google Says — SAN FRANCISCO — Google said it has seen no effect from a slowing economy on its advertising business, as it reported a 17 percent jump in profit and a 51 percent growth in revenue in the fourth quarter. — The result represents a slowdown in Google's growth rate and fell shy of expectations.

Discussion: Clickety Clack

Saul Hansell / Bits:
Spectrum Auction: C Block Hits Reserve Price

Doug Sherrets / VentureBeat:

Google's Marissa Mayer: Social search is the future — At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google's leading VP in search, said social search hasn't shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it. I wrote about that here.

Discussion: Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Watch Blog, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, Mashable! and John Battelle's Searchblog

Daniel Jalkut / Red Sweater Blog:

MarsEdit 2.1 — It is with great pleasure that I announce the immediate availability of MarsEdit 2.1, a significant update to Red Sweater's Eddy-Award winning desktop blog editing application. — Download MarsEdit 2.1 From The MarsEdit Home Page — I've updated the high-level “what's new” …

Discussion: Infinite Loop, MacUser, The Apple Blog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Cost Per News

Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:

RealPlayer named by StopBadware.org — StopBadware.org said Tuesday it has labeled two versions of the RealPlayer media player as “badware,” or spyware. — RealPlayer 10.5, it claims, “fails to accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on the user's computer.”

Discussion: eWeek, Ryan Naraine's Security Watch, AppScout and The Register

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook Finances — Want to know about how privately held Facebook is doing from a financial point of view? — Well, just ask Mark Zuckerberg! — This afternoon, at an all-hands meeting held in a Palo Alto, Ca. theater near the social networking site's headquarters …

Discussion: mathewingram.com/work

Chris Williams / The Register:

‘Facebook fatigue’ kicks in as people tire of social networks — Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad. — Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore have confirmed what the chatter in bars and cafes …

Discussion: The Constant Observer, Tech Beat, broadstuff, HipMojo.com, The Last Podcast, Mashable!, Valleywag and Silicon Alley Insider

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