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6:15 PM ET, October 14, 2010

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Google Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. — “Google had an excellent quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Our core business grew very well, and our newer businesses …

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Google Q3: $7.29 Billion, Display And Mobile Showing “Momentum” — Google said it earned $7.29 billion in Q3 2010, growth of 23% compared to the same period in 2009. Quarterly growth was 7%. Although these numbers aren't broken out, the Eric Schmidt quote included in the press release highlighted display …

Discussion: paidContent, 24/7 Wall St. and Bloomberg

Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:

Google Reveals Display And Mobile Revenues For First (And ONLY?) Time — Google's Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management, took some time on this afternoon's Q3 earnings call to discuss some specific user numbers for newer Google businesses. — He said this was a one time thing, so get pumped.

Discussion: VentureBeat

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Google Wallops Q3 Estimates — There's the beat Wall Street was looking for. Google reports earnings $7.67 a share and net revenues of $5.48 billion. The consensus was for $6.67 and $5.25 billion. GAAP EPS was $6.72. — Google has been plowing money into capital expenditures and people …

Apple:

Verizon Wireless Offers iPad at Stores Nationwide on October 28 — BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—October 14, 2010—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available at over 2,000 Verizon Wireless Stores nationwide beginning Thursday, October 28.

Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:

iPad Coming to AT&T, Verizon Stores Oct. 28 — An official press release from Apple reveals that a new partnership between it and Verizon Wireless will see the iPad make its way to the wireless provider's store shelves on Oct. 28. In a separate press release, Apple also said the iPad will be available at AT&T stores on the same day.

Discussion: Daring Fireball, The Loop, displayblog and blogs.chron.com

Electronista:
Verizon to sell Wi-Fi iPads with MiFi bundles, special plans

Discussion: Computerworld, Mobilized, The Seattle Times, Gizmodo, InformationWeek, internetnews.com, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PR Newswire, Ars Technica, BaltTech, Bits and MobileWhack.com

AT&T:
Apple's iPad Coming to AT&T Stores on October 28

Discussion: Apple, Macworld, Telecompetitor, TiPb, Engadget, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, Silicon Alley Insider, 148Apps, BetaNews, VoIP Watch, Gearlog, techblog.dallasnews.com, Tech Trader Daily and Electronista

Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:

John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs' Success [Exclusive Interview] — John Sculley, Apple's ex-CEO, talks for the first time about Steve Jobs. Illustration by Matthew Phelan. — In 1983, Steve Jobs wooed Pepsi executive John Sculley to Apple with one of the most famous lines in business …

Discussion: MacRumors, AppleInsider, CBS News and TUAW

Rick Osterloh / The Big Blog:

Skype with Facebook integration and group video calling — We're excited to announce a brand new version of Skype for Windows, which will help bring you and your friends, family and co-workers together like never before. Download it now, or read on to find out what's inside.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Velocity, GigaOM, PC World, VentureBeat, 901am, NBC Bay Area, Telegraph, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, Disruptive Telephony, Covering Web, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Erictric and Neowin.net

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Skype 5.0 For Windows Debuts With Facebook Integration, Call Recovery And More

Discussion: About Skype, Facebook Blog, Engadget, MediaPost, Computerworld, Fast Company, Mashable!, Skype Journal, Guardian, All Facebook, Geeky-Gadgets, WebProNews, Boy Genius Report, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, MacStories, The Toybox Blog and Inquirer

Bloomberg:

Yahoo Said to Hire Goldman to Handle Takeover Approaches — Yahoo! Inc., which spurned an unsolicited offer from Microsoft Corp. in 2008, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to help defend against possible takeover approaches, said three people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Mercury News, DealBook, paidContent, Venture Capital Dispatch, Electronista, Reuters, Guardian, GMSV, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, VatorNews and PE Hub Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters:
Seagate confirms talks to go private

Discussion: Bloomberg

Dan Primack / Fortune:
Is a leveraged buyout of Yahoo even possible?

Discussion: MediaPost and Epicenter

Nielsen Wire:

U.S. Teen Mobile Report: Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow — If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it's probably because on average they're sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month. That's more than six per every hour they're awake - an 8 percent jump from last year.

Discussion: PC World, Yahoo! News, Wall Street Journal, Internet2Go, USA Today, ReadWriteWeb, MobileCrunch, Epicenter, MobileBurn.com, GigaOM, Switched, IntoMobile and CrunchGear

Greg Peters / PlayStation Blog:

Netflix on PS3: Disc-free Next Week — If you instantly watch movies and TV shows from Netflix on your PS3, here is the news you've been waiting for: starting Monday, October 18 you'll be able to instantly watch movies and TV shows without inserting an instant streaming disc into your console.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Following Pivot To Celebrity Tracking Site, Twitter Cuts Off Scoopler's Firehose Access — A couple days ago, we noted that real time search engine Scoopler was pivoting away from that product and transforming into JustSpotted, a celebrity tracking site. A key to this new service is the use …

Discussion: CNET News

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter investor backs celebrity-tracking site

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and CNET News

Shannon Prior / The Mozilla Blog:

Introducing our new CEO: Gary Kovacs — We're pleased to announce that we have appointed Gary Kovacs as our new CEO. His first day will be November 8th. — Gary's appointment as CEO comes as part of a planned leadership transition that we announced earlier this year.

Discussion: Digits, John's Blog, Computerworld, CNET News, Mitchell's Blog, VentureBeat, VatorNews, GigaOM, The Register, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog and Erictric

Miguel Helft / Bits:
Mozilla Taps SAP Executive as New Chief

Discussion: Mashable! and SiliconANGLE

Apple MobileMe News:

New MobileMe Calendar. Now Available to All Members. — The new MobileMe Calendar is now out of beta and available to all members. We'd like to thank everyone who took part in the beta for helping to make this the best MobileMe Calendar yet. — To start using the new calendar …

Discussion: CNET News, MacRumors, PC World, Ars Technica, Erictric, Mashable!, MacStories, TiPb and TUAW

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Adobe tops 1 million Flash downloads on Android — Adobe has more than 1 million downloads of Flash Player 10.1 on the Android market, but still has a few kinks to work out on the mobile front. — Since Flash Player 10.1 launched on Android the reception has been solid.

Discussion: Android Phone Fans, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, PhoneDog.com, Droid Life, AndroidGuys and Android Community

Jeff Kunins / The Windows Blog:

Messenger Connect is out of beta and available worldwide — Continuing with our ongoing partnering strategy, Messenger Connect enables our 500 million users to easily share what they're doing across the web with their friends in Messenger & Hotmail. It also makes it easy for our partners …

Discussion: Download Squad, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog and SiliconANGLE

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Spark Capital Raises a New Fund — Spark Capital, the Boston-based venture capital firm that has investments in Twitter, Tumblr and Boxee, has raised a new fund to invest in Web and digital media companies. — The new fund is $360 million, the same size as Spark's last one.

Discussion: Xconomy, SiliconANGLE and Venture Capital Dispatch

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:

AMD Q3 Revs In Line; EPS Beats; Sees Q4 Revs Flat Vs. Q3 — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this afternoon posted Q3 revenue of $1.62 billion, about in line with the Street consensus at $1.61 billion. The company posted non-GAAP profits of 15 cents a share, well ahead of the Street at 6 cents.

Discussion: CNET News and VentureBeat

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Opera Mobile coming to Android within a month, bearing hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom — Forget all that Mini stuff, Opera is bringing its full-flavored mobile browser to Android some time very soon indeed. To tempt people on board, the new software will support hardware acceleration …

Espen André Øverdahl / My Opera:
Opera 11 will have Extensions

Discussion: PC Magazine, Neowin.net, Epicenter, eWeek, Digital Trends, Sean Michael Kerner, Download Squad, Opera Press Room and TechCrunch

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