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April 24, 2013, 12:45 AM

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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — 37.4 Million iPhones Sold; 19.5 Million iPads Sold — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share.

Charles Cooper / CNET:

Apple shares the wealth: Boosts stock buyback, ups dividend 15% — With $145 billion in the bank, Apple has been under increasing pressure to return more money to shareholders. Now it responds - big time. — Apple boosted its stock buyback and approved a 15% increase in its quarterly dividend.

More: AllThingsD, Macworld, Digits, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Yahoo! News, MacRumors, Fortune and Forbes

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Tim Cook teases ‘exciting new product category’ and ‘more surprises’ in the fall — During Apple's Q2 investor call, CEO Tim Cook teased “the potential of exciting new product categories,” and suggested that the company will announce new products in the fall. “We've got a lot more surprises in the works,” Cook said.

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, MacRumors, ABCNEWS, iMore, TUAW, Deadline.com, Electronista, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, TodaysiPhone.com, TechCrunch and Fone Arena

Felix Salmon:

Apple's new pitch to investors — Today's earnings report marks the point at which Apple is officially no longer a high-growth tech stock, valued on its monster potential. Instead, it has become a cash cow, valued on its ability to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into its shareholders' pockets.

More: Businessweek, iMore, ZDNet and Mashable. Tweets: @mattrosoff

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple Q2 '13: Beats with $43.6 B rev, $9.5B profit at $10.09 EPS, with 37.4M iPhones sold, 19.5M iPads — Apple today announced its earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2013. Apple's revenue amounted to $43.6 billion in Q2. With earnings of $10.09 per share. Apple posted $9.5 billion in profit.

More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, AndroidHeadlines.com, ZDNet, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Next Web, Electronista, Yahoo! News and Mercury News

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Apple Sells 37.4M iPhones And 19.5M iPads In Q2, Tablet Business Shows 65% YOY Growth

More: Guardian, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, AppleInsider and The Next Web

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Returning $55 Billion to Investors as Forecast Trails

More: Apple, Digits, Quartz, FierceWireless, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Tweets: @bill_gross and @johnolilly

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Apple says it has served 45B App Store downloads, with $9B paid to developers

More: TechCrunch, Inside Mobile Apps, AppleInsider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @panzer

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million — Google has finally closed the deal on Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for a price that is more than $30 million, we're hearing from a legitimate source. — Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and Google eventually won.

More: VentureBeat, Digits, The Droid Guy, Xconomy, Examiner and CNET

David Pierce / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S4 review — How do you upgrade the best-selling Android phone of all time? — Years ago, people either bought an iPhone or “a Droid.” Verizon's marketing power, those insane robot ads, and maybe that just-close-enough naming convention made the carrier's Android phones …

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Business Insider, iMore, VentureBeat, TechHive, ReadWrite, BGR, Android Central, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable and IntoMobile

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up — Samsung has been on a roll. The success of its many models of smartphones, aided by massive marketing campaigns, has made it by far the leading maker of devices running on Google's Android operating system and the chief rival to Apple in smartphones.

More: New York Times, ABCNEWS and GigaOM

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

The BlackBerry Q10 Is A QWERTY Keyboard Smartphone Comeback Worth Waiting For — The BlackBerry Q10 is, some might say, the BlackBerry OS 10 device that the company should have led with, ahead of its all-touch Z10. That's because it sports a hardware QWERTY keyboard, something that has become …

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, CNET, AppleInsider, iMore, Business Insider, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Engadget, BGR, CrackBerry.com, Bloomberg, Financial Post and Mashable

Mat Honan / Wired:

Twitter Now Has a Two-Step Solution — Twitter has a working two-step security solution undergoing internal testing before incrementally rolling it out to users, something it hopes to begin doing shortly, Wired has learned. — Such a system will drastically reduce the risk of Twitter users having …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Atlantic Wire, The Next Web, The Verge, Marketing Land and Forbes. Thanks:@mat

Chris Welch / The Verge:

AP Twitter account hacked, makes false claim of explosions at White House

More: MoneyBeat, The Caucus, Business Insider, Computerworld, GigaOM, Associated Press, Reuters, CNET, Quartz, AllThingsD, Quartz, SEO Book, CNBC, Guardian, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, ValueWalk and The Register

Tweets: @mikebakerap, @bloombergtech, @cnbc, @buzzfeedandrew, @davidfaber, @tomwarren and @cnbc

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

BitTorrent's Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public — Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive and Mega are just a few examples of the many file-storage and backup services that are available today. — All these services rely on external cloud based hosting to back up and store files.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

With over 200TB synced already, BitTorrent opens up its Sync alpha to the public for Windows, Mac, and Linux

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog and blog.vrypan.net

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Microsoft licenses second huge handset maker in a week, China's ZTE — For several years now, Microsoft has been asserting that any company making Android phones owes it money, because Microsoft has patents that cover various aspects of those phones. — Last week, the company …

More: TechNet Blogs, TechCrunch, Computerworld, AllThingsD, CNET and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @inafried

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Nuance brings Swype keyboard to Google Play for $0.99, adds Dragon mobile, dialect support, and more — Swype, the learning keyboard application is now available for Android devices. For the first time, the app can be downloaded from the Google Play store on smartphones and tablet devices enabling anyone …

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Engadget and The Verge

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad gets gorgeous new media timeline and display mode — A new version of Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad should be making its way across the App Store now, and it comes with a great new version of the timeline focused on sharing media, rather than tweets.

More: MacStories, PhoneArena, AppShopper.com, MobileSyrup.com, MacRumors, The Verge and Gotta Be Mobile

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

How Microsoft is speeding up the Office trains — Summary: Microsoft's Office team has an ambitious roadmap ahead of it. But can a team of 5,000 engineers move from delivering product releases every 2 to 3 years, to every quarter or even faster? — Microsoft's Office team has run like clockwork for at least the past decade.

More: Gartner

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

New York Times lifts paywall for video, plans ‘franchises’ — The New York Times is no longer restricting non-subscribers' access to its video content. The move, which comes as the Times tightens other parts of its paywall, is part of the paper's plans to expand its brand in the video space.

More: The New York Times Company and Nieman Journalism Lab. See also Mediagazer

Abbas Jaffar Ali / tbreak Dubai UAE:

Water-proof, dust-proof ruggedized version of Galaxy S4 releasing soon. — At the Samsung Galaxy S4 launch in Dubai today, the President of Samsung Gulf Electronics Mr. Young Soo Kim mentioned that a ruggedized version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be coming in the months ahead.

More: TechView.me and Android Central. Thanks:@tbreak_com

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Uber wins in NYC lawsuit filed by limo lobby, clearing the way for city to test e-hail apps — A judge has ruled that the Taxi and Limousine Commission's e-hail pilot program is legal — A court ruling in Manhattan today represents one more incremental step in the drawn …

More: CNET, AllThingsD, New York Times and Betabeat

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Firefox OS Developer Phones Sold Out After First Few Hours On Sale, But More Are On The Way — Geeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early this morning, offering the Keon for $119 and the more powerful Peak for $194.

More: Computerworld, PC Magazine, Forbes, VentureBeat, The Droid Guy and Digital Trends

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