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April 25, 2012, 4:30 AM

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Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Record March Quarter Sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs Net Profit Increases 94% Year-over-Year CUPERTINO, California—April 24, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Tim Cook on Samsung patent litigation: ‘I highly prefer to settle’ — It sounds like those court-ordered settlement talks between Apple and Samsung are going pretty well — Tim Cook just told analysts on Apple's Q2 2012 financial call that he's “always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.”

More: Engadget, The Next Web, BGR, AppleInsider, GigaOM, CNET, ReadWriteWeb, AppleInsider and TechCrunch

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple Q2 Earnings: Apple Now Has Over $110 Billion In Cash Reserves — Apple has once again beaten analysts' expectations with its Q2 results out today, and correspondingly the iPhone giant now has an even stronger cash position than it did before: $110 billion in the six months ended March 31 …

More: CNET, The Register and eWeek

Tweets: @hblodget, @poornimagupta, @sai, @mat and @dannysullivan

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Apple's Chinese iPhone Sales “Mind-Boggling,” Bring China Revenues To $7.9B

More: TheStreet.com and BetaNews. Thanks:@alexia

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Profit Rises 94% on Growing Global Demand for IPhones

More: Bloomberg Tech Blog and MediaPost. Tweets: @asymco

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple continues to face supply constraints with new iPad

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, PC Magazine and PhoneArena

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Apple: Mixing tablet, notebook like merging toaster, fridge

More: Bits, Business Insider, Bloomberg Tech Blog, The Huffington Post, Computerworld and ABCNEWS. Tweets: @fxshaw

Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb:

Apple's Huge Quarter in Charts

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Apple Stores Continue To Be A Juggernaut, With $4.4B In Revenue, 85M Visitors To Stores In Q2

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple's Q2: $39.2B revenue, $11.6B profit with $12.30EPS, 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads sold

More: The Loop, The Next Web, MacStories and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @parislemon

Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog:

Introducing Google Drive... yes, really — Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist. — Today, we're introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Sundar Pichai: Google Drive Is About Context, Where Competitors Are About Files — In advance of the release of Google Drive, I sat down yesterday with Google SVP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai and Google Drive product head Scott Johnston. I asked them to elaborate on how Google Drive emerged …

More: The Verge, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Sundar Pichai and 9to5Google

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared

More: Neowin, The Verge and TechnoBuffalo

Aaron Levie / The Box Blog:

When Elephants Attack — Ever wondered what it's like to be chased …

More: GigaOM, Los Angeles Times and Business Insider

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Google Drive officially launches with 5GB free storage, Google Docs integration

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Guardian, Gizmodo, Forbes, BetaNews, NEWS.com.au and Lifehacker

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Thanks Google, It Only Took You Six Years

More: Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, CNET, Wired, Computerworld, Bloomberg Tech Blog, Google Operating System, SlashGear, Appolicious Advisor and 9to5Google. Tweets: @cdixon

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

How far does Google Drive's terms go in ‘owning’ your files? — Summary: Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive allows you to retain your copyright and IP rights to the work you upload to the service. Google Drive, however, takes everything you own. — Within hours of Google launching …

More: CNET and gHacks Technology News

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

A Lot Of People Are Freaking Out Over Google Drive For Nothing* — We've been seeing a few tweets from people who are worried how Google's recently updated terms of service will affect Google Drive. — Specifically, it's this section that has people talking:

More: The Next Web, ZDNet and Android Phone Fans

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Exclusive: Bebo founders, shareholders sue owner for ‘destroying’ site — Bebo, which has hit one rocky patch after another the past few years, now has new troubles. The social network's founders and some other shareholders are suing its current owner, alleging fraud.

More: AllThingsD

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:

Andreessen Horowitz Has “Nearly Returned” Fund One, Yet Critics Remain — Andreessen Horowitz has been shaking things up since debuting on the venture scene nearly three years ago; this week is no different. — After the New York Times published a recent piece, highlighting …

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Apple Found to Violate One Patent on Android Phones — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) won a partial U.S. International Trade Commission judge's ruling in its bid to block imports of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s devices including the iPhone and iPad tablet computer.

More: Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, IntoMobile, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Mobile Marketing Watch and GigaOM

Alex Wu / Facebook Developer Blog:

Discover native Android apps through Facebook — With the latest update to Facebook for Android, we are bringing social app discovery channels to native Android apps. — After introducing social app discovery for mobile web apps on Android and native apps on iOS, apps and games like Pinterest …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Wired, AllFacebook, ZDNet and Inside Mobile Apps

Rick Borovoy / Google+ Developers Blog:

Introducing the Google+ Share Button — When your visitors come across something interesting on your site, sometimes you want to encourage a simple endorsement (like +1). Other times, however, you want to help visitors share with their friends, right away. Today's new Google+ Share button lets you do just that.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Marketing Land, Mashable!, The Verge and The Next Web

Kate Kelly / CNBC:

Facebook IPO Could Be Delayed by Deals, Distractions — Less than two weeks before the potential launch of Facebook's initial public offering roadshow, a string of acquisitions and other business distractions are threatening to delay the sale, say people familiar with the matter.

More: Search Engine Watch, GigaOM, I4U News, TechCrunch, Deal Journal, CNET, Reuters, Neowin, The Register, AllFacebook and VentureBeat

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Chrome for Android to come out of beta ‘in weeks’ — Google expects to bring its Chrome browser for Android out of beta testing “in a matter of weeks.” So said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome and Apps, in an interview yesterday, shortly after Google released a Chrome …

More: Android News, Rumours …, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, The Verge and PhoneArena

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Amazon releases “Send to Kindle” desktop software for the Mac — More than three months after releasing software for Windows-users to send documents to a Kindle, Amazon has now released the Mac version. Announced on Tuesday afternoon, the “Send to Kindle for Mac” application allows Mac users …

More: Macgasm, MacStories, Pocket-lint, Lifehacker, The Verge and TUAW

Caleb Garling / Wired:

Google's Eric Schmidt Defends Android in Oracle Trial — Eric Schmidt took the stand on Tuesday to defend Google from Oracle (Photo: JolieODell/Flickr) — Taking the stand on Tuesday during the ongoing trial over Google's use of the Java programming language on its Android mobile operating system …

More: Computerworld, The Verge, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, CNET and ZDNet

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Facebook for Windows Phone getting a major refresh — The Facebook app for Windows Phone is certainly serviceable, but it's never really been anything to get excited about. In fact, it wasn't really something you looked forward to using and it's been slow to add the features considered standard on competing mobile platforms.

More: Facebook

Computerworld:

Macs more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, study finds — One in five Mac computers is likely to carry Windows malware, but only one in 36 is likely to be infected with malware specifically designed for the Mac OS X, according to study performed by antivirus firm Sophos.

More: Digital Trends, PC Magazine, eWeek, Ars Technica, BGR and Inquirer

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