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July 24, 2013, 6:20 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.
Dan Frommer / TechCrunch:
Apple's No-Growth Q3 2013 In Charts  —  Apple just reported June quarter results, and as expected, sales were pretty flat — up just 1% from last year to $35.3 billion.  It's been a while since Apple has released any major new products, and it shows.  —  A few highlights:
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John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
Apple in China: $27B sales in the last 12 months, 500K iOS developers  —  Apple is doing well in China despite that sales were down this past quarter, CEO Tim Cook said today in the company's third-quarter earnings call.  —  “Let's put it in perspective,” Cook told analysts and investors.
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
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
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?
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
More: MacNN
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.
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.
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.

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