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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 …
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| 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) … | 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 …
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Examiner, The Next Web 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 …
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GeekWire, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, I4U News and SlashGear
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
| 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 …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Computerworld, ZDNet, Engadget, VentureBeat, BGR, MacRumors, CNET, IntoMobile, TUAW, Macworld and The Verge
| 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.
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| 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.
| 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 …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider and Pulse2 Technology …
| 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 … | 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 …
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The eBook Reader Blog, Engadget, Liliputing and TechCrunch
| 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 …
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LYTRO BLOG, PC World, CNET, PetaPixel, The Verge, Neowin 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 …
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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 …
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Zatz Not Funny!, Vizio Blog, AnandTech, Ars Technica, The Verge, BetaNews, WebProNews, PC World and Ubergizmo
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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GeekWire, VatorNews, paidContent, Business Wire 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?
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Digits, The Register, Forbes, Los Angeles Times and memeburn
| Eric Morse / Google Enterprise Blog: |
Introducing the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program: Helping businesses move to the cloud — Posted by Eric Morse, Head of Sales and Business Development, Google Cloud Platform — Cloud is core to everything we do here at Google. In the last decade, we've invested in building …
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GigaOM, ITworld.com, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek and Wired
| 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 … | 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 …
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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Google seeks campaign money by touting Net as prime info source — The company's “Four Screens to Victory” effort makes the case that the TV screen is decreasing in importance for political campaigns as people surf Internet screens — phones, tablets, and PCs — for information on candidates and issues.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
BandPage Unshackles From Facebook, Now Helps 500K Musicians Build Synced Sites and Widgets Too — With $19 million in funding but the Timeline redesign cratering its traffic, BandPage needed to diversify beyond Facebook. So today it launches BandPage Everywhere to let musicians build websites …
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VentureBeat, Inside Facebook and hypebot
| Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans: |
Nexus Q in stock at Google Play Store, orders arriving in 3-5 business days — The experimental Nexus Q media orb is now in stock and shipping from Google, with deliveries expected to arrive within three to five business days. The Android-based social music and video playback system went …
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The Verge, 9to5Google and PhoneArena
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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