David Hill / Medialets:
Android Market vs. iPhone App Store: The First 24 Hours  —  Google’s Android Market has been officially live for 24 hours.  Here are some early observations and comparisons with the iPhone App Store’s first 24 hours.  —  There are myriad similarities between iPhone and Android users:

David Scheer / Bloomberg:
Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale  —  Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — A fake Internet report that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack was posted by a teenager, and investigators haven’t found evidence he tried to profit from driving down the stock […]

Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press:
Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby  —  TOKYO - A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times (NYT) Running On Fumes  —  Not sure how it came to this so fast, but the New York Times (NYT) is approaching the point where it will have to manage its business primarily to conserve cash and avoid defaulting on its debt.  This situation will only […]

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Video site Break.com lays off 11  —  Video site Break.com has laid off about 11 workers, according to CEO Keith Richman.  —  The site, which now bills itself as an online “entertainment destination for guys” is planning to hire the same number of people in the future, just “with different […]

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel unveils new cooling tech for ultrathin laptops  —  Intel wants a laptop to live up to its name.  —  A computer that sits comfortably, coolly on your lap.  The world’s largest chipmaker expects a crush of ultrathin laptops from PC makers in 2009 and unveiled cooling technology this week […]

Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record First-Quarter Revenue  —  Revenue surpasses $15 billion with healthy sales of enterprise software and Xbox 360 consoles  —  Segment Revenue and Operating Income (Loss)  —  View the PowerPoint Earnings Release  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue …

Yahoo! Search Blog:
Inquisitor Expands to Firefox and IE  —  Earlier this year, we launched Inquisitor 3 for Safari.  Since then, users have been asking (demanding) that we make Inquisitor available on other browser platforms.  This evening, we’re doing just that with the launch of Inquisitor Firefox 2 and 3 and Internet Explorer 7 and […]

Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Google’s Russian Ad Buy Blocked On Technicality; Putin’s Spanner In The Works?  —  Russia’s FAS anti-trust authority has blocked Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from gaining a foothold in the country’s booming online advertising business.  Top-three portal Rambler in July agreed to sell …

Derek Phillips / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0  —  As an engineer on the Gmail for mobile team, I use the Gmail client on my mobile phone all the time.  Because of this, I’m always looking for ways to make it faster, more robust and easier to use.  Today, we’re […]