Apple Reports Third Quarter Results  —  Sales of 31 Million iPhones Set New June Quarter Record  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 third quarter ended June 29, 2013.  The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per diluted share.

Verizon Reveals The $99 Motorola Droid Mini, $199 Droid Ultra, And The $299 Droid Maxx  —  As if we didn't already have enough Motorola phones to wait for, Verizon showed off a trio of new Motorola DROID smartphones at a (surprisingly cozy) event in New York City.

Exclusive: Moto X Camera's New Minimalist User Interface And Swipe Gestures  —  Are you sick of hearing about the Moto X yet?  Too bad: it's just over a week until Motorola's official debut, and the Good Ship Google is as leaky as ever.  The latest tidbits of information from an anonymous tipster …

Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It  —  No one took ownership of Google Reader internally because it wasn't a top priority for Larry Page and his inner circle of lieutenants.  And if you aren't working on something that the boss cares about, then what's the point?  —  Via: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

AT&T: $32 Billion in Revenue, 6.8 Million Smartphones Including Record Number of Androids  —  AT&T said on Tuesday that it sold a record number of Android smartphones last quarter, helping fuel adjusted earnings of 67 cents per share on revenue of just more than $32 billion.

Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web  —  Flipboard started on mobile devices, but the magazine app is moving to the web today with the launch of a new site.  Its 75 million registered users will be getting access to its superior formatting and curation features for articles, photos and video on their desktops and laptops.

The Web's longest nightmare ends: Eolas' patents are dead on appeal  —  Web pioneers united to stop “interactive web” patents at an East Texas trial.  The Eolas patents were uniquely threatening to the Web and drew Tim Berners-Lee's personal attention.  The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee …

DataStax Readies For IPO, Raises $45M For Modern Database Platform Suited To New Data Intensive World  —  DataStax has raised $45 million for its scalable, high-performance database platform.  The Series D round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Draper Fisher Jurvetson …

Dating app Tinder briefly exposed the physical location of its users  —  Tinder, the popular mobile dating app that matches people based on how they rate each other's photographs, briefly exposed the physical location of its users to other people on the service.  —  The location information wasn't visible in the app.

Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook's gigantic missed opportunity  —  It was May 24, 2007 at Facebook's inaugural developers conference f8, held at the San Francisco Design Center.  Mark Zuckerberg, just 10 days past his 23rd birthday, was pacing the stage.

Viber Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army  —  Viber has confirmed a situation earlier this morning in which Viber appeared to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (a pro-government group of computer hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad).

Twitter's One-Two Punch Now Lets All US Advertisers Target People Who Just Saw Their TV Commercials  —  Hit 'em with a television commercial, then with a Twitter ad to really drive the message home.  That's the promise of Twitter's TV Ad Targeting it's rolling out to all US advertisers today after its beta launch in May.

Opera: iOS still king of mobile ads, iPhone alone has equal reach and more value than Android  —  It's been a year since browser-maker Opera extended its series of insightful Internet studies with the introduction of its first State of Mobile Advertising report, and the company today provided its data and conclusions for Q2 2013.

Foursquare announces self-serve ads product, rolls it out to “a few thousand” businesses  —  Foursquare has just launched self-serve ads, a new service which the company says is rolling out now to “a few thousand local businesses today.”  —  According to Foursquare, these new ads use …

MaskMe: an online disguise for your email and credit card  —  Why give away your private data?  —  Every time you sign up for a web service or buy something online, you're entrusting some company with your information — whether your email address, an account login, or your credit card number.

Polycom's CEO Andrew Miller resigns after company finds irregularities in his expense report  —  SAN JOSE — The chief executive officer of Polycom, Andrew Miller, resigned on Tuesday as the top boss of the videoconferencing company after the company discovered irregularities in his expense reports.