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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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| 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 …
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| 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?
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| 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.
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| 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 … | Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
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| 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).
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| 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.
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Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple's Siri — Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering text-to-speech, voice commands and “Explore by Touch.”| Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter: |
Ashton Kutcher's ‘jOBS’ to Hit Theaters on Apple's 37th Anniversary — The film makes its worldwide premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this week ahead of its April release in theaters. — The Steve Jobs biopic jOBS, starring Ashton Kutcher, will open in theaters April 19 … | Amir Efrati / Digits: |
Google Creating Wireless Network, But For What? — Google is trying to create an experimental wireless network covering its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, a move that some analysts say could portend the creation of dense and superfast Google wireless networks in other locations …
| John Casaretto / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft Earnings Big on Windows 8 and SuperBowl Strategy — On the eve of Microsoft's possibly most significant earnings reports in recent history, eyes are fixed are on the Redmond giant. The recent announcement of pricing and availability of their tablet product - the Surface Pro is no coincidence …
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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.| 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.| 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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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Gets Review of Apple Victory in U.S. Trade Fight — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest smartphone producer, persuaded a U.S. trade agency to review a preliminary ruling that more than a dozen models of its mobile phones copied Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patented features.| 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.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Logitech Q3 earnings reveal plans to sell off Harmony remote, video security divisions — The fiscal 2013 Q3 numbers from Logitech are in, and according to new CEO Bracken P Darrell, the “disappointing” results will require immediate action to turn around — action that includes selling off …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
SV Angel Invested $30M In Pinterest Secondary Sale — Last week we reported on an SEC filing of a new $30 million raise for SV Angel, for a fund called SV Angel-III Growth P. — We've since heard from multiple sources that this $30 million is a Special Purpose Vehicle for SV Angel …
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