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January 24, 2013, 7:50 AM

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Apple:
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 …
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Tim Cook to Apple investors: Keep calm and stop listening to rumors  —  Times are changing at Apple: its margins are down, its profits are not blowing away expectations anymore, and it's also going to stop sandbagging its earnings forecasts.  So Apple CEO Cook had to work harder than usual …
More: Fortune
Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:
About that post-PC era...Steve Jobs was right  —  Apple's earnings came out today, and amidst the flood of instant analysis and impassioned claims from Apple fans and foes alike, one thing clearly stood out.  —  Steve Jobs was right.  The post-PC era is here.
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
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 …
Bryan Chaffin / The Mac Observer:
$AAPL Pummeled in After-Hours Trading, Here's Why  —  Shares of Apple Inc. were pummeled in after-hours trading Wednesday as investors expressed their displeasure over the company's December quarter results and conference call.  Though Apple met estimates for sales and slightly beat estimates for earnings …
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Apple's Profits Are Flat, and Stock Drops  —  Apple on Wednesday reported the kind of quarter most big companies would envy, posting a profit of $13.1 billion and selling 28 percent more iPhones and 48 percent more iPads, its two biggest products.  —  Its stock sank 11 percent.  —  What is going on?
Macworld:
In his own words: Tim Cook on Apple earnings and more  —  Sequentially we increased over 70 percent from the September quarter, which was 3.5 times the market, and so we could not be happier with that.  In terms of geographic distribution, we saw our highest growth in China, and it was into the triple digits.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Nokia's Q4 2012: $584 million operating profit, $10.7 billion in net sales, 4.4 million Lumia phones sold  —  Beleaguered phone maker Nokia this morning published its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, reporting a $584 million (439 million euros) operating profit on $10.7 billion in net sales (8.041 billion euros).
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
After Getting Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Microsoft, Nokia to Start Paying Redmond  —  There was a doozy of a footnote in Nokia's earnings report on Thursday.  —  Since signing its deal to go with Windows Phone, Nokia has been getting $250 million in “platform support payments” from Microsoft.
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 …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Vine, Twitter's Instagram for Video, Launching Soon — At Apple's App Store  —  Yep, that was Twitter CEO Dick Costolo using video from Vine, the video-sharing startup he bought last fall, in a tweet he sent out today.  And yes, that means Vine is ready to go.
David Kravets / Wired:
Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-Mail, Cloud Data  —  Google demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the contents of Gmail and other cloud-stored documents to authorities in the United States — a startling revelation Wednesday that runs counter to federal law that does not always demand warrants.
Richard Salgado / The Official Google Blog:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Launches Streamlined Image Search  —  Like how Google Image Search works on a tablet?  Good news, then.  That simplified experience is coming to Google Images on the desktop.  —  Out With The Old  —  Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Sony Fined Nearly $400,000 By U.K. Data Protection Watchdog For 2011 PlayStation Network Hack, Plans To Appeal (Updated)  —  Sony has been fined by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for the April 2011 data breach of the PlayStation Network which compromised the personal details of millions of users.
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.
Michael Frederick / 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.
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 …
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Imagining a 5-inch iPhone  —  Never mind rumors of an awkwardly named 4.8-inch “iPhone Math”, the concept of a much larger iPhone has been floating about ever since the realities of early LTE chipsets — and the batteries that came with them — forced Android and Windows-based competitors to break the size barrier.
More: ReadWrite
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
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.
Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:
AT&T's TV, Phone and Internet Service Is Down in Some States  —  High-speed Internet, digital TV and digital phone service?  Sure sounds like the future.  But when all those services blow out like a candle, it'll feel as if you're living in the stone age.  Some AT&T customers are learning that the hard way this week.

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