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10:15 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.

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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.

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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,” …

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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

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:

Google: We're going under — sell, sell! — It must be tough when you just keep beating estimates quarter after quarter, like Google has done ever since it became a public company — until now. Revenues and profits have continued to rise by the mid-double digits pretty much every time the company reports …

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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: Dembot, TechCrunch, GigaOM, 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?

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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, Electronista, GigaOM, Engadget, Phone Scoop, Silicon Alley Insider, last100, TechCrunch and IntoMobile

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

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

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

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

Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:

AT&T data network fails for BlackBerry, iPhone users — San Francisco - AT&T's wireless data networks in the Southeast and Midwest U.S. are down, causing BlackBerry and iPhone users to be without data services. — The EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) and UMTS …

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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
EDGE down — Lots of annoyed iPhone users today in the central US.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile

MegaZone / TiVo Lovers Blog:

TiVo Discontinues The Series3 TCD648250B — If you want to get an original TiVo Series3 TCD648250B, you'd better act soon, because they're going away. TiVo is end-of-lifing the TCD648250B, the original Series3 with the OLED display, etc, and will focus on the TiVo HD, TCD652160.

Discussion: Gizmodo and TiVo Blog

Darren Murph / Engadget: TiVo killing off the Series3, focusing on TiVo HD?

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

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

Andy Beard / Niche Marketing:

Techmeme PageRank Penalty? — I just happened to glance down at my Search status toolbar in the status window of Firefox, and noticed that Techmeme's Google Toolbar PageRank had been reduced to 4 — Techmeme Sell Links — Techmeme has very clear advertising with sponsored posts

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