October 23, 2009 2:30 PM PDT
CNET News Daily Podcast: Amazon and Netflix earnings defy expectations
Amazon and Netflix today joined Apple and Intel in showing surprisingly good earnings results despite most economists' lingering concerns over consumer spending. Amazon's investors responded by sending the stock up 25 percent in trading today.
Also in today's podcast: checking in with both World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and security guru Bruce Schneier. President Obama asks Congress to pass energy and climate-related legislation, and Facebook unveils some design tweaks.
Listen now: Download today's podcastToday's stories:
Obama: U.S. needs to lead clean-energy race
Tech advice from Tim Berners-Lee
Security guru warns of marketers and dancing pigs
Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she's a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica. 
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Erica Ogg keeps up on the latest consumer electronics and PC goings-on as chief correspondent for CNET News' Crave blog.
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