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10:25 PM ET, July 17, 2008

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Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER 2008 RESULTS  —  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.  —  “Strong international growth as well as sustained traffic increases on Google's web properties propelled us to another strong quarter …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy  —  Updated: Google's second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company's ability to weather a dicey ad environment.  —  The search giant on Thursday reported net income …
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Analysts: Google investors “freaking out for nothing”  —  As far as second quarters go, Google had a decent one.  But that minor detail got lost in the big tech news Wednesday as jumpy investors punished Google in after-hour trading by as much as 11% for missing Wall Street estimates.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
Google Announces Q2 Results: Stock Plummets 12%
Discussion: Business Wire, Bloomberg and Smackdown!
PR Newswire:
Microsoft's Annual Revenue Reaches $60 Billion  —  Fastest annual revenue growth since 1999 fuels 32% increase in earnings per share.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $15.84 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008, an 18% increase over the same period of the prior year.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Call: Online Ad Business Is Bad; Share Weakness Out Of Our Control  —  The audio on this call is very bad, so we may have to check the transcript later to see what we missed.  Although the company's outlook is seen as weak, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CFO Chris Liddel characterized …
Discussion: Big Tech and Wall Street Journal
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft profits miss Wall Street estimates  —  Breaking news: Microsoft today reported fourth-quarter profits of 46 cents a share, just short of Wall Street expectations, and trimmed its earnings forecast for the full fiscal year.  —  Analysts had been expecting earnings of 47 cents per share.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy's Domain Registration Totally Screws .me  —  Earlier this year GoDaddy won the rights to distribute domains under the extension .me, which belongs to the country of Montenegro.  After a number of private distribution periods for corporations, the highly desirable extension finally went …
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Shoemoney:
The .me Registration Not Going So Well
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
PodTech purchased by ViewPartner for less than half a million, ending a bloody story  —  PodTech, a company that publishes online and downloadable videos about new technology, has been sold — for less than half a million dollars, I've learned — to ViewPartner, a communications technology company.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support  —  It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline.  After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears.  Andrew Fogg saw a preview of the integration at Google's offices and found …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:   Google Gears Coming to Gmail and Google Calendar Soon
AMD:
AMD Board of Directors Elects Dirk Meyer President and CEO  —  − Hector Ruiz Named Executive Chairman of AMD -  —  AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its board of directors elected President and COO Dirk Meyer as the company's chief executive officer.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?  —  Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data.  —  Ad supported free site PlentyOfFish is trouncing everyone …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Channel Intelligence Sues Just About Everyone Who Offers Wishlists  —  Channel Intelligence, a company based in Florida, filed a lawsuit for patent infringement in Delaware on Tuesday against a long list of startups and other companies and individuals who have one thing in common …
Discussion: Techdirt and Stake Ventures
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:   Company ignores giants, sues small fry over wishlist patent
Benjamin Duranske / Wall Street Journal:
The 3D Internet Will Change How We Live  —  Last summer, several hundred thousand very real dollars disappeared into a Ponzi scheme in the popular virtual world, “Second Life.”  The owner of the “bank” behind the scheme fled, and hasn't been seen since last October.  There were no investigations, lawsuits or arrests.
Discussion: RealityPrime and The Chronicle
Ian Paul / Today @ PC World:
First Look: Amazon Video On Demand Service  —  Amazon is tackling video on demand again with a new service aptly named Amazon Video on Demand that gives its customers instant access to 40,000 movie and television programs.  Programs are streamed immediately through your browser …
Corvida / SheGeeks:
Twitter's New Redesign  —  I just logged into Twitter and after sending a direct message from the Twitter homepage my screen showed this:  —  At first I thought Firefox was going haywire on me.  However, this is not the case.  It seems Twitter is testing a new theme design and one that I'm not quite sure how I feel about.
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
Source: VC for Facebook widgetmakers is drying up  —  They can't say they didn't have it coming.  But widgetmakers are angry all the same about Facebook's decision to clone Slide's Top Friends application as a feature in its latest redesign.  “It would be insane for a new developer” …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Will Sell to Microsoft for $33 Per Share  —  Yahoo's Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company is willing to sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per share or more.  —  Arnold reviewed the meat of the letter, so readers don't have to run through it all themselves …
 
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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Fears Threat of Cyberspying at Olympics
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
PS3 sales rise on Metal Gear Solid 4 demand
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Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web
Matthew Ogle / Last.fm:
Last.fm: The Next Generation
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
VMware To Re-Price Post-IPO Employee Options
Fraser Speirs:
Demographics Is Destiny  —  Apple sold 1,000,000 iPhone 3Gs in a weekend.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Not guilty plea in San Francisco's computer caper
AppleInsider:
Apple may have shipped record 2.54 million Macs in third quarter
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Datamation
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Erik Larkin / PC World:
Have You Fixed Your Company's DNS Servers?
Discussion: Forbes and Computerworld
Mashable!:
5 Twitter Tactics for Building a Stellar Brand
Discussion: CNET News.com
NCTA.com:
Publication Type: Media Release
Discussion: Slyck and IP Democracy
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Intel CEO: Atom is Something “Most of us Wouldn't Use”
Discussion: dailywireless.org and Gizmodo
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Story of the Fail Whale
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Last.fm's Buggy, New Design
Discussion: PDA and The Social
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
Apple Climbs To Third Place In US Desktop Market