Reuters:
Intel Says Loss Possible in First Quarter: Report  —  Resource Library:  —  Intel CEO Paul Otellini warned employees in an internal memo that the chip maker could potentially report its first loss in more than 20 years in the first quarter of 2009, Bloomberg reported this week.

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln’s  —  Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web.

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Pictures: President Obama’s inauguration, as seen from space  —  The other day I wrote about how the GeoEye-1 satellite would be taking images of President Obama’s inauguration from 423 miles up — in space.  This could have only worked on a clear day, so that clouds weren’t blocking the view.

Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
The country’s new robots.txt file  —  Here’s a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today.  Here’s the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday: … And it goes on like that for almost 2400 lines!  Here’s the new Obamafied robots.txt file:

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Inauguration Day, by the numbers  —  Updated at 6:41 a.m. PST on Wednesday to update statistics from CNN and Akamai.  —  From what early numbers are indicating, the historic swearing-in of President Barack Obama was not the biggest traffic day for the Internet.

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Inauguration Day, by the numbers  —  Updated at 2:53 p.m. PST to add statistics from the New York Times.  —  From what early numbers are indicating, the historic swearing-in of President Barack Obama was not the biggest traffic day for the Internet.  But for many social networks and digital-media sites […]

Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Twitter catches up to Digg  —  Twitter has become a popular pastime for many who like to update their daily thoughts and activates, as well as for the voyeurs who just enjoy reading the tweets.  Last week, the market share of visits to Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time […]

Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Payment Processor Breach May Be Largest Ever  —  A data breach last year at Princeton, N.J., payment processor Heartland Payment Systems may have led to the theft of more than 100 million credit and debit card accounts, the company said today.  —  If accurate, such figures may make the Heartland […]

IBM:
Quarterly earnings  —  Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results Announcement … Full-Year 2008:  — Record revenue of $103.6 billion;  — Record pre-tax profit of $16.7 billion;  — Record earnings per share of $8.93;  — Record free cash flow of $14.3 billion, up $1.9 billion, excluding Global Financing receivables.

Spencer Spinnell / Traditional Media:
Turning the page on Print Ads  —  Labels: Announcements, Google Print Ads  —  In the last few months, we’ve been taking a long, hard look at all the things we are doing to ensure we are investing our resources in the projects that will have the biggest impact for our […]