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Earnings peeks: Google, Intel, Microsoft

Big tech earnings on tap today: • Analysts expect Google to have made a profit of $3 billion in its latest quarter, which would be a first, according to the Associated Press. The Mountain View company is scheduled Read More →

Quoted: the day after SOPA protests, talking OPEN

"I think it is an important moment in the Capitol. Too often, legislation is about competing business interests. This is way beyond that. This is individual citizens rising up." — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., on the public sentiment against Read More →

Off topic: Train surfers, de-baptisms, book reviews with bite, mini food, painted fish

Indonesia's new effort to deal with train surfers, or people who get a free ride by riding on the roofs of trains: concrete balls. In Europe, voluntary de-baptisms — which may have sprung from a joke Read More →

Yahoo post-Yang: What’s next?

A day after Yahoo announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has left the building — no more chief Yahoo title, and he has resigned from his seat on the board — shares of the Sunnyvale company continue Read More →

Blackout day: Web’s ‘cyber tantrum’ already getting results

The Google search page has a blacked-out logo. Wikipedia's English-language website has gone dark. Over at craigslist, the home page message urges people to call their legislators and includes the following: "Corporate paymasters, keep those clammy hands off Read More →

Quoted: on love and passwords

"I’ve known plenty of couples who have shared passwords, and not a single one has not regretted it. It's the kind of symbolism that always goes awry." — Sam Biddle of Gizmodo, in an interview with the New York Read More →

Off topic: Faking it on Twitter, if seceding had succeeded, occupations of the 1 percent, office colds, remaking book covers

The alter egos of Henry Kissinger, Queen Elizabeth II and others make Foreign Policy's list of fake and entertaining Twitter accounts. U.S. secession movements mapped and compared against the rest of the country. (via Neatorama) The Read More →

Jerry Yang’s departure from Yahoo is as sad as it is overdue

The decision by co-founder Jerry Yang to resign from the Yahoo board is as sad as it is overdue. No matter how rudderless Yahoo had become in recent years, Yang deservedly remains a Silicon Valley icon. He was there at Read More →

Google trouble; Apple vs. Samsung again; investors sue Netflix

Tidbits about the usual suspects. • Google last week said it was investigating allegations that a Google employee was scouring a competitor's database and stealing customers in Kenya. Now the company is reportedly looking into Read More →

SOPA/PIPA talk: Wikipedia blackout, Twitter CEO, Rupert Murdoch, more

There's plenty of talk about the controversial legislation (the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act) that at worst would give the U.S. government unprecedented power to shut down websites accused of copyright infringement of movies and more. Read More →
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