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Apple:

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — 17 Million iPads Sold — Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common Share — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35. billion …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Apple's Q3 2012: $35B In Revenue, Net Profit Of $8.8B, Earnings Of $9.32 Per Share — Apple has just released its fiscal Q3 2012 earnings, and the Cupertino-based company reported revenues of $35 billion (compared to $28.6 billion in the year-ago quarter and $39.2 billion in Q2 2012) …

More: Guardian, msnbc.com, The Next Web, Forbes, ZDNet, CNET, BGR and TUAW

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Apple Sales and Profit Miss Estimates — Apple sold 28 percent more iPhones last quarter than it did a year earlier, but the growth failed to meet the lofty expectations of analysts, leading to a rare disappointing earnings report from the company. — Following the release of the report …

More: Examiner and Washington Post

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple sold 1.3M Apple TVs in Q3 2012, with 4M units so far this fiscal year, but it's still ‘a hobby’ — Apple's CEO Tim Cook said today that the company had sold 1.3M Apple TVs in Q3 2012, with 4M units so far this fiscal year. “We think it will lead us somewhere., we'll keep pulling the string …

More: GeekWire, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, I4U News and SlashGear

Donald Melanson / Engadget:

Apple's Q3 hardware sales by the numbers: 17 million iPads, 26 million iPhones, 4 million Macs

More: PC Magazine, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Electronista, Tecca and Know Your Cell. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Apple's Reality-Check Quarter In Charts

More: BuzzFeed and SlashGear

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

CEO Cook On China In Q3: Apple Had $5.7B In Sales, Still Growing At ‘Incredible’ Rate

More: Fortune

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Sharing the wealth: Apple to pay dividend to investors on August 16

More: Los Angeles Times and iDownloadBlog.com

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple reports 25M user growth for iCloud since April, now at 150M users

More: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

@cnbc:

MARKET FLASH: Apple shares down more than 5% after earnings report. QUOTE: http://cnb.cx/yA43NC

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple seeks $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, offers half a cent per standard-essential patent — With their California trial approaching fast, Apple and Samsung made filings during the last few hours that shed light on what's at stake and on why the parties haven't been able to settle their dispute so far.

More: Wired, Reuters, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, BGR, Fortune, Digits, MacRumors, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android News, Rumours …, Los Angeles Times, SlashGear and ITworld.com

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Apple wins European ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, loses 10.1N appeal

More: SlashGear, InformationWeek, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, Washington Post, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and IntoMobile

Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg Tech Blog:

Apple Warms Up to Hackers, Plans Presentation at Black Hat — Attendees are seen through a Black Hat logo during the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences in Las Vegas. — In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference …

More: eWeek, NetworkWorld.com …, iPhone, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, CNET, TechSpot, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Mac, TUAW and The Verge

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Craigslist sues competitor PadMapper over listings — Craigslist has followed up on earlier threats and filed a lawsuit against popular apartment listing site PadMapper. The case raises questions over whether Craigslist is stifling innovation or simply protecting its data.

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, PC Magazine, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Betabeat

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple confirms: OS X Mountain Lion available tomorrow on the Mac App Store for $19.99 — In its Q3 financial earnings press release today, Apple, has announced that OS X Mountain Lion will be available tomorrow. The release will come exclusively through the digital Mac App Store …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Computerworld, BGR, ZDNet, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, CNET, IntoMobile, TUAW, Macworld, The Verge and Mashable!

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Twitter Is Working on a Way to Retrieve Your Old Tweets — Trying to remember that pithy, brilliantly composed tweet about the latest Wes Anderson movie that you fired off a few months ago? You're out of luck: Twitter lets users access only the last few thousand tweets posted to the site.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @mathewi and @daltonc

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Airbnb Acqui-Hires Brian Pokorny And The Batch/DailyBooth Team To Boost Mobile Adoption — Airbnb has grown dramatically over the last year, announcing last month that it topped 10 million total nights booked, with more than 200,000 active properties listed on its site.

More: VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Benjamin Mayo:

How Many People Use Twitter's Own Apps? — On the latest Talk Show, Gruber wondered what the spread of Twitter clients really is. It made me realise that no one has really explored how many people use Twitter's own apps. I thought I'd (try to) find out.

More: The Verge and SplatF

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Square Is Said to Be Seeking a $3.25 Billion Valuation — For all of Square's challenges, raising money has not been one. — The mobile payments start-up, best known for its pint-sized credit card reader, is close to raising roughly $200 million, which would give the company an implied valuation …

More: VentureBeat and Business Insider

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Hits Its Q2 Numbers, A Little Light on Subscribers — A first look at the Netflix Q2 numbers: Earnings of 11 cents a share on revenue of $889 million. The street was expecting five cents per share and $889 million. At least as important, though, are the video service's subscriber numbers.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, paidContent, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, BGR, CNET, Business Insider and Tech Trader Daily. See also Mediagazer

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Amazon Cracks Down on Kindle Web Browsing — When the Kindle launched in late 2007 it came with an experimental web browser as well as free web browsing over the 3g connection. As nice as that was to have, all good things come to an end. There are reports over at MobileRead today that Amazon …

More: The eBook Reader Blog, Engadget, GeekWire, Liliputing and TechCrunch

Vanessa Mock / Wall Street Journal:

EU, Google Nearing Antitrust Deal — BRUSSELS—European Union antitrust authorities have reached a “good understanding” with Internet company Google Inc. over their competition concerns, with the first technical talks set to follow in the “coming days or weeks,” the EU's top competition official said Tuesday.

More: CNET, Search Engine Land, Reuters, GigaOM, Financial Times, New York Times and 9to5Google

Brian Heater / Engadget:

Lytro finally rolls out Windows desktop software, celebrates with free shipping — As cool as the Lytro camera's post-picture taking focusing technology is, it's hard to overlook some of the product's shortcomings — not the least of which is the fact that the company only offered a Mac solution …

More: LYTRO BLOG, PC World, CNET, PetaPixel, The Verge, AllThingsD, Neowin and TechCrunch

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

WhoSay Raises $12 Million For Celebrity Content Management while Teasing Direct to Fan Publishing — Celebrity-focused social media management platform WhoSay has raised $12 million in Series C financing led by Comcast Ventures, with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners …

More: GeekWire, VatorNews, paidContent, Business Wire and TechCrunch

John Cook / GeekWire:

Big Fish unveils $7.99 per month cloud gaming service, streaming titles across tablets, PCs and smartphones — Big Fish Games CEO Paul Thelen at Casual Connect — Seattle's Big Fish Games today unveiled a new cloud-based gaming service called Big Fish Unlimited that allows game players …

More: AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile and The Seattle Times

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Vizio Co-Star Google TV set-top box is up for pre-order, $100 brings it your way in August — As promised, Vizio has starting taking pre-orders for its Co-Star Google TV box. For a penny less than a Benjamin, it adds the new Google TV experience to your existing setup …

More: Zatz Not Funny!, Vizio Blog, AnandTech, BetaNews, Ars Technica, The Verge, WebProNews, PC World, Ubergizmo and TechCrunch

Gina Smith / ReadWriteWeb:

Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago — In the last few months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his company public, got married and scored a nearly $6 million home loan at just over 1%. What could possibly top all that?

More: Digits, The Register, Forbes, Los Angeles Times and memeburn

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Verizon and Redbox Start Testing Their New Web Video Service: Here's What to Expect — Back in February, Verizon and Redbox announced a joint-venture video service but said little else about it. — Now they're back, and they're saying a little bit more: The service has a name …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, internetretailer.com, Fast Company, MarketWatch, Engadget, WebProNews and Mashable!

Matt Richtel / New York Times:

Silicon Valley Worries About Addiction to Devices — Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones. But like a growing number of technology leaders, he offers a warning: log off once in a while, and put them down.

More: Gizmodo

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Someone Is Getting Really Nervous About HP's Debt — Shares of Hewlett-Packard hit another 52-week low yesterday, dropping to $18.30 and continuing their summer doldrums, trading in the lowest range they have seen in nearly eight years. The shares continued their depressing fall today …

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Yahoo agrees to return Indonesian check-in service Koprol to its founders — Yahoo-owned Koprol, the one time Foursquare-rival based out of Indonesia, has completed a 360-degree journey back to its founders, after the US-based Web giant agreed to return ownership of the name …

More: e27 and Daily Social EN

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Broadcom announces its first 802.11ac Wi-Fi chip for smartphones — Online video consumption on multiple screens throughout the home is quickly becoming the norm — and all that video has a way of sucking up a home's bandwidth. Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom believes that the gigabit Wi-Fi speeds …

More: Computerworld

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