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July 24, 2013, 8:45 AM

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Apple:
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.
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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
How Apple's profits stack up against Google and Microsoft  —  With Apple's earnings posting today, and Microsoft's and Google's last week, we now have the financial results for the three of the largest consumer technology companies in the world.  It's safe to say that the second quarter of 2013 has been a tough one for all involved.
More: GeekWire
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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.
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 …
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 1020 review  —  There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago.  Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device would be a show-stealer — in 2012?
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.
Joanna Stern / ABC News:
Facebook to Let You Say Why You Hide News Feed Posts  —  It's not exactly a dislike button, but Facebook soon plans to roll out ways to better understand why you don't like something in your News Feed.  —  Currently, when you hide something in your News Feed, Facebook begins feeding …
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.
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 …
CNET:
Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2  —  Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private.  —  Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, investment firm Silver Lake …
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.
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
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.
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The Fonecast:
New disruptive pricing model from iZettle could boost mobile transactions in the UK  —  Mobile payment service iZettle, which enables businesses to take card payments via an iPhone or Android smartphone, is dropping its transaction fees for UK businesses that take over £2,000 a month.

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