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10:00 AM ET, July 18, 2008

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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads — and May Have Gone Too Far  —  Listening to Google's executives on their conference call with investors Thursday afternoon, you'd never know that the company's second-quarter results fell short of expectations and its shares plummeted 10 percent in after-hours trading.
Discussion: p2pnet, Furrier.org and New York Times
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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 …
Microsoft:
Microsoft's Annual Revenue Reaches $60 Billion  —  Fastest annual revenue growth since 1999 fuels 32% increase in earnings per share  —  Segment Revenue/Operating Income (Loss)  —  Listen to the Webcast Earnings Release  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $15.84 billion …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Schmidt: YouTube + ads = ‘holy grail’
Discussion: Portfolio.com and Lost Remote
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ad Firm From Rambler For $140 Million  —  We have recently written about a flurry of Russian online deals, and this is among the bigger ones that have happened in the last year or so: Google has bought contextual advertising company ZAO Begun from it parent …
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Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com:
Google Monopolizes Contextual Ads Market Further - Buys Russian Begun  —  Today we have another proof that Google intends to control internet advertising in any way that it can.  Today we are witnessing another acquisition by the global search giant - this time it's the largest contextual advertising company in Russia, Begun.
Discussion: Mashable!
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:   Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
On-Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog  —  The tough reality of the on-demand game is taking its toll on software companies hoping to make a mint distributing their wares via the Web  —  The Internet revolutionized the distribution of software—perhaps a bit too much.
Discussion: Rough Type and Beyond Search
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried  —  We have short memories in Silicon Valley, which is both a blessing and a curse.  We forget the bad times as quickly as we forget the good times.  —  At the turn of the century, everything went to hell with the dot-com bust.
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SmoothSpan Blog:
Google Anti-Gravity Ray is Fading
Edward Kirk / iPhone Alley - RSS:
AT&T Finally Announces Free Wi-Fi For iPhone Users  —  in - news - AT&T - free stuff - Wi-Fi  —  Fantastic news from a friend with sharp eyes.  AT&T has finally done something great for iPhone owners.  No, they're not unlocking the iPhone.  They're not giving it away for free, although it does involve “free”.
DigiTimes:
New Apple notebook orders to buoy up Taiwan PCB makers sales and profit  —  As Apple is said to have increased its procurement of notebook-use printed circuit boards (PCB) by 20% on quarter in the third quarter, with most of the ordered PCBs being high-interconnect density (HDI) boards …
James Sherwood / The Register:
Brits won't get PS3 movie, TV downloads until 2009  —  If you're a European resident itching to download video content through the PlayStation Network, then Sony's not your PAL - literally.  —  The President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, has confirmed that the PS3 video store …
Discussion: last100
louisgray.com:
Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for Air  —  Twitter's struggles with handling high user load have been well documented.  To help the embattled site stay up between Fail Whales, they've at times reduced features to just try and keep afloat, blocking the replies tab …
Noam Cohen / Bits:
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages  —  Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism.  In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site …
Discussion: Techdirt, Mashable! and UMBC ebiquity
Stacey Higginbotham / Business Week:
Venture Capital Loves Virtual  —  An army of startups developing tools to enhance our virtual lives attracted $345 million in venture investment in the first half of the year  —  Startups selling virtual goods and offering virtual experiences are raking in the venture capital these days.
Discussion: DealBook
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon To Target $5.5 Billion Textbook Market With New Kindle?  —  Earlier this week Crunchgear broke the news on two new upcoming Kindle models: a smaller form factor Kindle to be released this year ahead of the holidays, and a large screen (probably 8.5×11) to come sometime next year.
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog and CrunchGear
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.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   Podtech failure: Scoble's lessons
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?  —  Ever since reading David Pogue's review of iPhone 3G I've been puzzling over something he said in relation to the GPS receiver.  Specifically, is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?
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 …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo On Icahn: Seriously, Why Would You Ever Trust This Spent, Doddering Old Man?  —  Don't know why it took this long, but Jerry Yang and company are finally launching a media blitz, one that we think is doing an effective job of making their case.  —  One particular talking point they've …
Discussion: Between the Lines and BoomTown
 
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Unlocked iPhone 3G available for direct shipment from Hong Kong, no catch at all
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Nation's Largest ISPs Crafting Fake National Broadband Policy …
Scott Webster / AndroidGuys:
As Usual, Some Tech Bloggers Are Getting it Wrong
Discussion: IDG News Service
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
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