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4:55 PM ET, October 18, 2011

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Victoria Barret / Forbes:
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup  —  Here's that rare Steve Jobs story, one that's never been told, about the company that got away.  Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple's radar screen when he reverse-engineered …
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Verizon unveils DROID RAZR by Motorola, pre-orders begin October 27th for $299.99  —  Verizon Wireless announced the DROID RAZR by Motorola on Tuesday, a brand new Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) smartphone that will take advantage of the carrier's 4G LTE network.
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Motorola Droid RAZR for Verizon announced, just 7.1mm thick  —  The phone known alternately as the Spyder, the Droid RAZR, and the Droid HD prior to its release is now official — and Motorola has decided to go with the Droid RAZR name.  As expected, it's got LTE for Verizon …
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Motorola Droid RAZR hands-on (video)
Discussion: SlashGear and Geek.com
Apple:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results  —  All-Time Record Mac and iPad Sales  —  Highest September Quarter Revenue and Earnings Ever  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011.  The Company posted quarterly revenue …
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Mark Gongloff / MarketBeat:
Apple Misses on Earnings, Revenue, iPhone Sales, Stock Tanks  —  Apple reported third-quarter earnings of $7.05 a share, on revenue of $28.3 billion.  —  Analysts, on average, expected Apple to earn $7.22 a share on revenue of $29.5 billion.  —  Apple has not missed earnings forecasts since …
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
AAPL Slips 5%: FYQ4 Misses, FYQ1 View Tops Estimates
Discussion: TUAW
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Records Q4 2011 Earnings of $6.6B on $28.3B in Revenue, Tops $100 Billion in Sales for Fiscal 2011
Discussion: 9to5Mac and MacStories
Roger Cheng / CNET:
RIM Co-CEO unveils next-gen BBX platform  —  Research in Motion Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis pulled back the curtain on a new name for its next-generation operating system, BBX.  BBX combines the best qualities of RIM's older BlackBerry operating system and its QNX platform, which powers the PlayBook tablet …
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Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Michael Dell: HP's confusion presents opportunity for Dell  —  Summary: HP has potentially handed competitor Dell a huge opportunity to get ahead in enterprise computing solutions and services.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard's uncertainty and confustion is unquestionably an advantage …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Michael Dell On His Infamous 'I'd Shut Down Apple' Quote: “My Answer Was Largely Misconstrued.”
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Tech Trade
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2011 Results  —  Revenue, Operating Income, and EPS Exceed Consensus  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011.  —  “Note to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income”
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q3 Revenue Down 5 Percent To $1.07B; Net Income Down 26 Percent To $293M
Discussion: Social Markets and ABCNEWS
Jon Pielak / Vectorform Labs:
The impact of Apple's Siri release: From the former lead iPhone developer of Siri  —  OCT, WED 12TH, 2011 POSTED IN : Technical, User Experience BY : Jon Pielak Comments  —  The Siri application released with the iPhone 4s has the potential to radically impact how we interact with technology.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google To Begin Encrypting Searches & Outbound Clicks By Default With SSL Search  —  Google will now begin encrypting searches that people do by default, if they are logged into Google.com already through a secure connection.  The change to SSL search also means that sites people visit …
Ian Sherr / Digits:
Apple to Close Some Retail Stores Wednesday During Jobs Memorial  —  Apple plans to close some of its retail stores for at least an hour Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, a gesture that coincides with the company's planned celebration of co-founder Steve Jobs's life at its headquarters.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
The Missed Red Flags on Groupon  —  This summer, Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, flew to Chicago to personally pitch his firm to underwrite what was supposed to be the hottest initial public offering of the year: Groupon, the fledgling online coupon company that was being valued at around $30 billion.
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google Docs Presentations Get Real-Time Collaboration, Transitions and Animations  —  Just about a year and a half ago, most of Google's productivity apps in the Google Docs suite received major overhauls that brought real-time collaboration and a number of other new features to Google's online document, spreadsheet and drawing tools.
Larry Dignan / CNET News:
EMC's quarter tops expectations  —  Storage giant EMC reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and said it is on track to hit its 2011 targets.  —  EMC reported today quarterly earnings of $606 million, or 27 cents a share, on revenue of $4.98 billion, up 18 percent from a year ago.
Matt Kelly / Facebook Developers:
Introducing HTML5 Resource Center  —  Many developers are now using HTML5 to build apps.  It is easy to develop for and it works across a number of different platforms, with minimal or no code change.  You can code in something as simple as Notepad, and instantly see it come to life in the browser on your desktop, phone, or tablet.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Nexus Prime pic, specifications outed by NTT DoCoMo?  —  Samsung's official press event in Hong Kong to debut the Nexus Prime smartphone isn't until Wednesday morning, but a Japanese carrier appears to have shared details of the phone on Tuesday.  NTT DoCoMo has reportedly shown a picture of the phone …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
HP TouchPad gets webOS 3.0.4 update, now able to answer calls from non-webOS phones  —  It may not have resulted in much of a numerical bump, but the just-released webOS 3.0.4 software update for the HP TouchPad is a fairly significant one.  The big new addition is the ability to pair non-webOS phones …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Khosla, Founders Fund, and Eric Schmidt Put $10 Million Into BillGuard  —  The other day, I mentioned in passing that Khosla Ventures invested in BillGuard, a TC Disrupt finalist from last May.  Here are more details.  It turns out that Khosla led the round, a $10 million series B …
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Intel rides notebook PCs, data centers to strong Q3  —  Summary: Intel's third quarter driven by strong enterprise demand and surprising growth in notebooks.  —  Chip giant Intel delivered strong third quarter results on surprising growth for notebook PCs as well as data center strength.
Discussion: News Stories
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Oracle Buys Enterprise Search And Data Management Company Endeca  —  Oracle has acquired Endeca, a company that powers enterprise search for large companies.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Endeca has raised a total of $65 million from Bessemer, Venrock, Intel, SAP …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Viacom, Google, Restart YouTube Copyright Case  —  They're back!  —  Viacom and Google, who have been tangling over copyright violations at YouTube since 2007, will be at it again today at a federal courthouse in New York.  The two sides will start oral arguments for Viacom's appeal of the case …
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Gogobot releases its first iOS travel app, with discovery tools and photo filters  —  BREAK THE NEWS! … In March of this year, I wrote a post titled, “Why Gogobot makes Google and TripAdvisor look like folding car maps.”  The service is fast-becoming a much-loved, travel savvy community.
Discussion: Tnooz, TechCrunch and MacNN
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Lookout Finally Brings Intelligent Smartphone Security And Tracking Application To iOS  —  Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms has long catered to the mobile security need of Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry users but has not offered an iOS app.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Social Navigation And Traffic App Waze Raises $30M From Kleiner Perkins And Li Ka-shing  —  Social mapping and navigation company Waze has raised $30 million in new funding from Horizons Ventures Hong Kong (the fund that manages the private venture investments of Facebook investor Li Ka-shing) …
 
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Katie Linsell / Bloomberg:
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Discussion: WinRumors and Neowin.net
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Another View of Patents From James Dyson
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Samsung accused of lifting iPhone screenshot for Galaxy Player promo
David W. Martin / Cult of Mac:
Preliminary Reports Surface About iPhone 4S Screen Quality Issues