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Apple Reports Record Results — 47.8 Million iPhones Sold; 22.9 Million iPads Sold — Apple® today announced financial results for its 13-week fiscal 2013 first quarter ended December 29, 2012. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion and record quarterly net profit …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's Q1 '13: Misses at $54.5 rev, beats with $13.1B profit at $13.81 EPS, with 47.8M iPhones sold — Apple today announced its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2013. Apple's revenue amounted to $54.5 billion in Q4. With earnings of $13.81 per share. Apple posted $13.1 billion in profit.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Tim Cook Says iPhone And iPad Supply Component Order Cut Rumors Don't Tell The Whole Story — Apple CEO Tim Cook took time on the company's earnings call today to comment on a specific rumor, which is an extreme oddity for Apple's top-tier executives.
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
The story behind DIAL: How Netflix and YouTube want to take on AirPlay — Netflix and YouTube have teamed up to launch DIAL, a protocol that helps developers of second-screen apps to discover and launch applications on smart TVs and connected devices. The effort is already getting support … | Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
The no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn't want you to see — Steve Jobs threatened patent litigation if Palm wouldn't agree to stop hiring Apple employees, says former Palm CEO Edward Colligan in a statement dated August 7th, 2012. Apple, Google, Intel …
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| Richard Salgado / The Official Google Blog: |
Transparency Report: What it takes for governments to access personal information — Today we're releasing new data for the Transparency Report, showing that the steady increase in government requests for our users' data continued in the second half of 2012, as usage of our services continued to grow.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia EOS: the first real PureView Windows Phone is coming this year — Nokia is planning a true PureView Windows Phone, The Verge has learned. Codenamed EOS, sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed that the device will include a similar sensor that's found on Nokia's 808 PureView handset.
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Netflix Shares Jump 30% After Hours, As It Beats The Street With Revenues Of $945M And 2M New Subscribers — Netflix had a stellar fourth quarter, posting revenues and subscriber numbers well above analyst estimates. That has got investors excited again, driving the stock up 25 percent in after hours trading.| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Inside Netflix's Project Griffin: The Forgotten History Of Roku Under Reed Hastings — They codenamed the top-secret project “Griffin,” after Tim Robbins' character from the film “The Player.” After all, that's what the team was building: The Netflix Player, a black and boxy device … | Helene Stapinski / New York Times: |
Restaurants Turn Camera Shy — When it comes to people taking photographs of their meals, the chef David Bouley has seen it all. There are the foreign tourists who, despite their big cameras, tend to be very discreet. There are those who use a flash and annoy everyone around them.
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| Google Drive Blog: |
Create, edit and present with Google Slides offline — Good news, Slides lovers. You can now create, edit, comment and (perhaps most importantly) present without an internet connection—just like you can with Docs. Any new presentations or changes you make will be automatically updated when you get back online.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Quora Launches Blogging Platform With Mobile Text Editor To Give Every Author A Built-In Audience — The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically distributes posts …
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AllThingsD, paidContent, PandoDaily, The Next Web, The Verge and WebProNews. Thanks:@forrestkoba. See also Mediagazer
| Andrew Lipsman / comScore, Inc.: |
Facebook Vaults Ahead of Google Maps to Finish 2012 as #1 U.S. Mobile App — With another interesting year in digital media in the books, we can now begin our retrospective view of what happened in 2012 in order help bring the digital future into focus. There is little doubt that the Brave …
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Onavo Insights, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, 9to5Mac, AllFacebook, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews and Droid Life. Tweets: @dannysullivan
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X-Surface: Don't believe everything you read. — I am a gamer. I don't work for Microsoft. — I, like most other gamers, am sick of seeing endless rumours and speculation citing “anonymous sources” or “insiders” with no evidence, no proof, no guarantee that they've been fact-checked or can be relied on.
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Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK, VG247 and WinBeta
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Tumblr Blog “Actual Facebook Graph Searches” Goes Viral — Well, that didn't take long. Facebook Graph Search is now its own Tumblr meme: “Actual Facebook Graph Searches.” The site dials up the social media rubbernecking-slash-privacy outrage to a whole new level: user submissions.| Charles Wilson / Associated Press: |
Court: Sex offender Facebook ban unconstitutional — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana law that bans registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other social networking sites that can be accessed by children is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Bitcoin-based casino rakes in more than $500,000 profit in six months — Sadly, you can't spend actual bitcoins like these (non-digital ones) at a digital casino. — CASASCIUS — As various tech companies report their fourth-quarter 2012 earnings numbers this week, so are two gray-market …
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| Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg: |
Yahoo, Dell Swell Netherlands' $13 Trillion Tax Haven — Inside Reindert Dooves's home, a 17th- century, three-story converted warehouse along the Zaan canal in suburban Amsterdam, a 21st-century Internet giant is avoiding taxes. — The bookkeeper's home office doubles as the headquarters for a Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) offshore unit.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Cisco To Buy Israeli Mobile Startup Intucell For $475 Million Cash, And Bessemer Will Get Nearly Half — Bessemer Venture Partners racked up a huge win today. Two years ago it invested $6 million in exchange for nearly half the equity of Israeli startup Intucell, whose networking tech lets carriers handle more mobile traffic.
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Cisco, AllThingsD, Cisco Blog, Business Insider, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Deal Journal, Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Michael Kan / ITworld.com: |
GitHub unblocked in China after former Google head slams its censorship — GitHub had been fully blocked in China starting on Monday — Access to software collaboration site GitHub appeared to be restored in China on Wednesday, just as former Google executive Kai-Fu lee criticized …
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Google points to future devices for still-unprofitable Motorola — Larry Page and CFO Patrick Pichette would like to redirect your attention from today's losses to the product pipeline 12-18 months out — Motorola has been both a promise and a problem for Google since $12 billion acquisition in May 2012.
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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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).
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