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July 24, 2013, 10:05 AM
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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.
Dan Frommer / TechCrunch:
Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall.  What Will Get It Started Again?  —  Apple's stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech.  Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to accelerate, far surpassing its competitors.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Apple sold 31.2m iPhones and 14.6m iPads in Q3 2013, up 20% and down 14.1% year-over-year respectively
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
New Nexus 7 up for pre-order at Best Buy with Android 4.3 and $229.99 starting price  —  As if that Best Buy Nexus 7 flyer wasn't enough, the big retailer is stepping up its efforts to preempt Google's tablet announcement by posting its pre-order pages for the device ahead of the official launch.
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:
New Nexus 7 (Codename Razor) Fully Detailed And Benchmarked - 2GB Of RAM, Snapdragon S4 Pro, And 1920x1200 Screen  —  Google is set to (probably) announce the new and improved Nexus 7 tomorrow, but we've been taking a look at the device ahead of time.  Some of the specs from previous rumors were dead on, and some not so much.
Jeff Elder / The Technology Chronicles:
Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform  —  What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform?  —  Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers  —  In a terse statement late Tuesday evening, the White House blasted the so-called “Amash Amendment” that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to collect data on personal phone communications …
Chitika Online Advertising Network:
June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84%  —  Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter  —  There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them.  —  Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
BlackBerry's upcoming A10 flagship leaks in photos and video  —  BlackBerry is reported to be working on a bigger and faster flagship smartphone called the A10, and a new series of leaked photos have provided one of our best looks yet at the upcoming device.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Granted 49 Patents Covering Lightning, Mac mini, Cameras plus an Interesting Euro Patent with an iPhone Camera Shift  —  It's a huge day for Apple in respect to newly granted patents.  The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 49 granted patents for Apple this morning.
Curt Woodward / Xconomy:
We're Number 9!  U.S. Slips in Internet Connection Ranking  —  Here's something to add to your decline-of-the-empire files: the U.S. is falling further behind in world rankings of average Internet connection speeds.  —  That's the verdict from the latest State of the Internet Report by Akamai …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Is Ibrahim Balic Behind the Apple Dev Center Hack?  Maybe Not.  —  Is Ibrahim Balic behind the hack that drove Apple to take its Developer Center offline for a few days and completely overhaul the security measures protecting it?  —  Balic, an independent security researcher, believes he is.

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