Peter Kafka

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Time Warner Q2 Beats Revenue, Earnings Estimates

Quick hit from Time Warner’s earnings release: The media conglomerate’s Q2 topped Wall Street’s consensus in both revenue — $7 billion vs. estimates of $6.8 billion — and earnings — $0.60 a share vs. estimates of $0.58. Time Warner tweaked its 2011 guidance, and now expects earnings growth of “at least low tweens” — previously it was just forecasting “low teens.”  We’ll come back later in the day, after the company’s midmorning earnings call.

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus