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8:55 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 …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
Google Announces Q2 Results: Stock Plummets 12%
Discussion: Bloomberg, Business Wire and Smackdown!
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Analysts: Google investors “freaking out for nothing”
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:   Google misses profit expectation, stock plunges
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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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.
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:   Microsoft Call: Online Ad Business Is Bad; Share Weakness Out Of Our Control
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.
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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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 …
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 …
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” …
Dan Glaister / Guardian:
Former city employee accused of blocking San Francisco's computers  —  A computer technician charged with launching a cyber-coup against the city of San Francisco was expected to plead not guilty late yesterday to four charges of computer tampering.  —  Terry Childs, an employee …
Discussion: eWEEK.com
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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 …
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 …
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
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 will 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 …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
IBM: Big Blue beats expectations; raises full year guidance  —  updated: IBM, a bellweather that analysts have been watching as an indicator of the tech industry's economic health in the U.S., reported second quarter earnings of $2.8 billion, or $1.98 a share, an increase of 28 percent over the same quarter a year ago.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Testing Self Serve Publisher Advertising Product For The First Time  —  Microsoft is testing a new pilot program that will let third party publishers add Microsoft's contextual ads next to their content in a self-serve format.  From what we can tell from the email below …
Discussion: CNET News.com
 
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
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Discussion: Between the Lines
Fraser Speirs:
Demographics Is Destiny  —  Apple sold 1,000,000 iPhone 3Gs in a weekend.
AppleInsider:
Apple may have shipped record 2.54 million Macs in third quarter
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Datamation
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Google Take All, Plus 10 Percent
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Story of the Fail Whale
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Last.fm's Buggy, New Design
Discussion: The Social and PDA
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
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