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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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” …

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.

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 …

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google’s second quarter: What to expect  —  Google will deliver its second quarter earnings Thursday after market close and analysts are expecting profits of $4.74 a share on $3.87 billion in revenue.  Items front and center will include paid click rates, the integration of DoubleClick …