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January 27, 2015, 9:30 PM

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Apple:

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results — Highest-ever revenue & earnings drive 48% increase in EPS — Growth led by record revenue from iPhone, Mac & App Store — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended December 27, 2014.

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Apple sells a record 74.5M iPhones in Q1, a 46% YoY increase, 21.4M iPads, a 21% decrease — Apple breaks its sales records with 74.5M iPhones in Q1 2015, but iPad sales decline 21% to 21.4M — The iPhone continues to carry Apple. — As part of the company's latest quarterly earnings announcement …

More: Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, iMore, Techvibes Global News, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Marketing Land, Forbes, The Techolic, Daring Fireball, Ubergizmo and Patently Apple. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Apple Watch to start shipping in April — Apple CEO Tim Cooks says development for the wearable is “right on schedule.” — Apple's first wearable, Apple Watch, will begin shipping in April, the company's CEO revealed Tuesday. — CEO Tim Cook, speaking during a call with analysts following …

More: Re/code, Ars Technica, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Re/code, GeekWire, VentureBeat, BGR, ZDNet, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, Wearable Tech Insider and Droid Life

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple reports $18B profit on record $74.6B revenue for Q1 2015, gross margin of 39.9%; holds $178B cash and marketable securities — Apple Reports Record Earnings and iPhone Sales: $18B Profit on $74.6B in Revenue for Q1 2015 [Conference Call Liveblog In Progress]

More: iMore, VentureBeat, International Business Times, AnandTech and 9to5Mac

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces 1 billion iOS devices sold

More: AppleInsider, CNET, Computerworld, Business Insider, MacRumors, Pocketnow and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @pschiller

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Brought More Android Switchers, New Customers Than Prior Models

More: Pocket-lint. Tweets: @benbajarin

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Apple reports $16.1B in revenue from greater China, up 70% from same period a year ago

More: Fortune, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Reuters, MacRumors and AppleInsider

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Pay Responsible for Two of Every Three Contactless Payments on Visa, MasterCard, and American Express

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, Forbes and The Verge. Tweets: @mdudas

Jinen Kamdar / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Highly critical “Ghost” allowing code execution affects most Linux systems — New bug haunting Linux could spark “a lot of collateral damage on the Internet.” — An extremely critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distributions gives attackers the ability to execute malicious code …

More: Openwall, ma.ttias.be, ZDNet, PC World, The Laws of Vulnerabilities, The Register, Threatpost and 5π - fish's blog

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Linux makers release patch to thwart new ‘Ghost’ cyber threat

Dennis Kish / Google Fiber Blog:

Google confirms Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham — Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham — It's been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm.

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Wall Street Gets What It Wanted From Marissa Mayer: Here's the Yahoo Plan to Spin Off Rest of Alibaba Stake — Yahoo said it would spin off the rest of its stake in China's Alibaba Group today, in order to create a tax-free distribution to its investors. It said the transaction will result …

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Reports Mixed Q4 With Mobile Revenue Of $254M, Total Top Line Of $1.18B

More: Re/code and Yahoo! Investor Relations. See also Mediagazer

Richard Leider / YouTube Engineering …:

YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video instead of Flash — YouTube now defaults to HTML5 — Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube's early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery.

More: VentureBeat, Android Authority, Ars Technica, The Next Web, 9to5Google, AppleInsider and TechCrunch. Tweets: @paul_irish

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Snapchat's new Discover feature puts news and entertainment a swipe away from your stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers, and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Netflix is revamping its data architecture for streaming movies — Netflix is revamping the computing architecture that processes data for its streaming video service, according to a Netflix blog post that came out on Tuesday. — The Netflix engineering team wanted an architecture …

More: The Netflix Tech Blog

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 software update w/ stability improvements, reduces space required to update — Apple released the iOS 8.1.3 software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users today. The update is available over-the-air through the Software Update section of the Settings app.

More: iMore, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Official Apple Support, Macworld, ReadWrite, Ars Technica, BGR, AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Gigaom and TechSpot. Tweets: @dcseifert

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple Pay coming to 200,000 vending machines, kiosks, paid parking & other self-serve locations — While individual retailers have been announcing support for Apple Pay as more NFC terminals enable the service, it's still hit and miss on vending machines and other self-serve, unattended hardware.

More: investor.usatech.com, Re/code, AppleInsider, Business Wire, VentureBeat, Gigaom, TechCrunch, ZDNet, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gizmodo and Ubergizmo

Costin Raiu / Securelist:

Researchers say Qwerty keylogger used by Five Eyes governments and Regin malware are developed by the same entity, or by entities working closely together — Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger — On January 17 2015, Spiegel.de published an extensive article based on documents obtained from Edward Snowden.

More: Spiegel Online, Threatpost, SC Magazine, Network World and Geek.com. Tweets: @nicolasbrulez

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

FCC: Blocking Wi-Fi in hotels is prohibited — Marriott asked the FCC to please let it block Wi-Fi. The hotel gets a firm answer. — On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission issued an “Enforcement Advisory” stating that blocking W-Fi in hotels is unequivocally “prohibited.”

More: FCC.gov, Re/code, The Hill, SlashGear, GamePolitics blogs, Gizmodo, Mashable, Glenn Fleishman writes words … and Gigaom

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Prynt, a case that turns your phone into a Polaroid camera, is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter for $49 — The Case That Turns Your Phone Into A Polaroid Camera Is Now On Kickstarter — The Prynt case, which lets you print photos directly from your phone, is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter.

More: Kickstarter, Android Authority, Gigaom, Geek.com and CNET

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with fixes for security and WiFi issues, adds support for iCloud Drive in Time Machine — Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 With Security Fixes, iCloud Drive Browsing Options in Time Machine — Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 …

More: 9to5Mac, eWeek, InvestorPlace, TUAW, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile and VentureBeat

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