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January 27, 2014, 9:10 PM

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Apple:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results  —  iPhone and iPad Sales Drive Record Revenue and Operating Profit  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended December 28, 2013.  The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $57.6 billion and quarterly net profit …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Apple breaks its sales records with 51M iPhones and 26M iPads sold in Q1 2014  —  Apple breaks iPhone and iPad sales records in Q1 2014  —  51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads bring Apple record revenue  —  Apple predicted its first financial quarter of 2014 to be a big one, and those predictions were spot on.
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data  —  GCHQ documents use Angry Birds - reportedly downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study for app data collection.  —  The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities …
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Obama administration reaches tentative deal with tech companies to disclose more details on government data requests  —  Government Reaches Deal With Tech Firms on Data Requests  —  Would Allow Internet Companies to Tell Public More Details About Requests
Bloomberg:
Perkins: I Regret Using the Word Kristallnacht  —  In an exclusive interview, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers Co-Founder Tom Perkins discusses his comments comparing the treatment of wealthy Americans to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.  He speaks exclusively with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's “Bloomberg West.”
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
CEO of Winklevoss-funded BitInstant arrested in Silk Road investigation, charged with money laundering  —  Winklevoss-Funded Bitcoin Startup's CEO Arrested In Silk Road Investigation  —  The widening circle of arrests in the investigation of the Silk Road drug market sites just extended into the heart of the Bitcoin community.
Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft contributes cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project  —  The following post is from Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise, Microsoft.  —  On Tuesday, I will deliver a keynote address to 3,000 attendees at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose …

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