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January 27, 2015, 8:35 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: Fortune, New York Times, Techvibes Global News, iMore, Marketing Land, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Business Insider, Reuters, The Techolic, Ubergizmo, Patently Apple, Pocketnow and MacRumors. 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: MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Next Web, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Re/code, BGR, Business Insider, ZDNet, Droid Life, Wearable Tech Insider and Cult of Mac

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: 9to5Mac, iMore, VentureBeat, AnandTech and Forbes

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces 1 billion iOS devices sold

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

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

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

More: Pocket-lint. Tweets: @benbajarin

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

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

More: CNET, Forbes, 9to5Mac 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.

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: New York Times, Re/code and Yahoo! Investor Relations. See also Mediagazer

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.

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

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, Macworld, Official Apple Support, 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, ZDNet, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gizmodo and Ubergizmo

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

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

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

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

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, CNET, Geek.com, Gigaom and Yahoo Tech

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft readies new free version of its Power BI business intelligence service — Summary:Microsoft is planning to introduce a free version of its Power BI business-intelligence tools/service, and will cut prices on its new, fully featured Pro version. — Microsoft is teeing …

More: PC World, The Official Microsoft Blog, InfoWorld, MSDN Blogs, GeekWire and Business Insider. Thanks:@jaypeters

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