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Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results — Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. “Google had a great quarter with over $14 billion in revenue - up 19% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “The shift from one screen to multiple screens …
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Google Misses Estimates In Q2 With $14.1B In Revenue, Net Income Of $3.2B, And EPS Of $9.56 — It's that time again — Google's fiscal second quarter earnings have just crossed the wires and they're definitely not what most people expected. For Q2 2013, the company reported consolidated revenue …
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| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders — When Apple wanted to revolutionize cellphones, it held hands with AT&T. The partners fought endlessly, but the public loved the finished product: the iPhone. — Now, as Apple tries to reimagine television … | Microsoft: |
Microsoft Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results — Microsoft today announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $6.07 billion, $4.97 billion, and $0.59 per share.
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Nokia now sells more Lumias than BlackBerry sells phones — With this quarter's mixed financial results, Nokia revealed that Lumia sales were up to a record high of 7.2 million. That means that the company sold more Windows Phones last quarter than BlackBerry sold phones.
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eWeek, n4bb.com, AppleInsider, Computerworld, GeekWire, iPhone, InfoWorld and My Nokia Blog
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Nokia chose Windows Phone because it feared Samsung would ‘come to dominate Android’ — Nokia's decision in 2011 to pin the future of its smartphone business on Windows Phone has been heavily scrutinized over the years, but the reasoning behind that choice is only becoming fully clear now.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iWatch's novelty emerges as Apple taps sensor and fitness experts — Apple's Tim Cook, Bob Mansfield, Kevin Lynch — Apple has begun assembling a team of hardware and software engineering, medical sensor, manufacturing, and fitness experts, indicating the company is moving forward … | Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Verizon Edge Upgrade Plan Launches August 25th: How it Stacks Up — Verizon Wireless has officially jumped on the smartphone upgrade bandwagon, looking to battle AT&T Next and T-Mobile Jump with its own Edge plan. Available starting August 25th, Verizon Edge spreads the full retail cost …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
VLC for iOS returns by July 19, re-written from the ground up and fully open-sourced — VideoLAN revealed some very exciting news today: VLC for iOS will be back in Apple's App Store by tomorrow (July 19). The company tells TNW the app will be available for free worldwide, requires iOS 5.1 or later …
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| Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
Exclusive first look: Pics and video of the new Nexus 7 — The new Nexus 7 sports an updated look, adds a rear camera — Here we go, folks. The first probable pictures of what we believe is the long-awaited successor to the Nexus 7. We've had to do a little Photoshop surgery to protect the source … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Yelp To Acquire Online Reservation Service SeatMe For Up To $12.7M — Yelp has just announced that they've agreed to acquire SeatMe, the startup that set out to battle OpenTable in the restaurant reservation space. — No word yet on the acquisition price, though we're digging.
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Yelp Official Blog, The Verge, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
The New York Times Will Release A Gesture-Controlled News App For Leap Motion — The New York Times says it plans to release a Top News app for Leap Motion, the soon-to-be-released controller that will allow users to interact with their computers through gestures — in fact … | Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple, Samsung's latest phones face antitheft stress test — Apple and Samsung's latest phones and their antitheft technology are being tested by state and federal governments on Thursday. — Apple and Samsung's latest smartphones will face the scrutiny of state and federal prosecutors …
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| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
Android vs. iPhone: Why Apple still has the edge over Google's operating system — Android is a wonderful operating system. But most Android phones are crap. — Six years ago, Google launched an unconventional effort to gain a toehold in the growing smartphone business.| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
Samsung announces 3,000 MB/s enterprise SSD, shames competition — The ink has barely dried on Samsung's last SSD announcement and the South Korean manufacturer has already made it obsolete by orders of magnitude. This 2.5-inch enterprise-class SSD isn't for us regular Joes …
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ITworld.com, GSMArena Blog and ZDNet
| Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online: |
The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping — The newest NSA leaks reveal that governments are probing “the Internet's backbone.” How does that work? — In the early 1970's, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off …
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| Lindsay Gellman / Wall Street Journal: |
Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names — Lack of Short, Recognizable URLs Prompts Use of Misspellings, Word Mash-Ups — David Leiberman, left, and Sammy Rubin, co-founders of digital sing-along storybook business Mibblio. The name combines “music” and “biblio.”
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The Atlantic Wire and Forbes
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Acquires Assets Of UK Mobile Bug-Checking Software Developer Monoidics — Facebook has just agreed to acquire certain assets and hire some employees of UK software verification developer Monoidics. Pending closing conditions, Monoidics' engineers and tech staff will join Facebook's London office.
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Facebook, Monoidics, TechHive, Mobile Marketing Watch, Inside Facebook, Guardian, CNET, ZDNet, Digits, AllFacebook, AllThingsD, Softpedia News and VatorNews. Thanks:@chrisvelazco
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Verizon adds 941,000 subscribers, activates 3.9 million iPhones during second quarter — Verizon has just released its financial report for the second quarter of this year, and unsurprisingly, it's another solid quarter for the largest carrier in the US. Verizon reports adding 941,000 …
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