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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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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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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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Apple's Semi-Soft Quarter In Charts — Apple reported December quarter results this afternoon. — In general, Apple is still performing well, but growth continues to decelerate, and some numbers were short of expectations. In particular, iPhone shipments — Apple's most important product …
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Apple plans to give a third of its $137 billion cash hoard back to investors — Apple just reported that it now has $137 billion in cash, which represents almost one-third of its $455 billion market capitalization at the end of trading today. Considering that the stock is down more than 5% …
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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 … | 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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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 … | 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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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.| 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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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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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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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.| Untitled: |
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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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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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.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter's upcoming Vine-powered video functionality teased by CEO — Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo and Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann have posted a video clip in a tweet using Vine, the video service Twitter acquired in late 2012. The short video — a few seconds long and complete with audio …
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Swartz Suicide Propels Facebook Search for Danger Signs — Facebook Inc. (FB) is helping to open a window into the minds of those who die by suicide. — The social media site is providing researchers at the suicide prevention group SAVE.org a glimpse of how those who take their own lives behave …
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