Ebay beat the Street’s expectations for Q2 earnings, reporting profits of 40 cents a share (or $530.2 million) on revenues of $2.2 billion. Analysts expected 30 cents a share with revenue at $2.1 billion, Net income increased by 18 percent (excluding Skype) from the same quarter in 2009, and revenue rose by 6 percent from last year

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When you first look at Google App Inventor for Android , it may not look like much. That is to say, it’s ugly. But as with many Google services, beneath a layer of homeliness, there appears to be much more under the surface. In this case, it could be a very big gateway drug for Android app development. Or is it a Doomsday device that will muck up native app development on the platform? The service, unveiled tonight in  the New York Times , is basically a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) tool for app development on the Android platform

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