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April 23, 2013, 5:10 PM

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Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — 37.4 Million iPhones Sold; 19.5 Million iPads Sold — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple Q2 '13: Beats with $43.6 B rev, $9.5B profit at $10.09 EPS, with 37.4M iPhones sold, 19.5M iPads — Apple today announced its earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2013. Apple's revenue amounted to $43.6 billion in Q2. With earnings of $10.09 per share. Apple posted $9.5 billion in profit.

More: 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Engadget

Charles Cooper / CNET:

Apple shares the wealth: Boosts stock buyback, ups dividend 15% — With $145 billion in the bank, Apple has been under increasing pressure to return more money to shareholders. Now it responds - big time. — Apple boosted its stock buyback and approved a 15% increase in its quarterly dividend.

More: AllThingsD, MacRumors, The Next Web, DailyFinance.com and Forbes

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Forecasts Sales Below Estimates; Boosts Dividend, Buybacks

More: Apple, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Apple Sells 37.4M iPhones And 19.5M iPads In Q2, Tablet Business Shows 65% YOY Growth

More: The Next Web

Matthew Lynley / Digits:

Live: Apple Reports 2Q Earnings

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, FierceWireless and The Verge. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million — Google has finally closed the deal on Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for a price that is more than $30 million, we're hearing from a legitimate source. — Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and Google eventually won.

More: Examiner, 9to5Google, ZDNet, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks and 9to5Mac

Chris Welch / The Verge:

AP Twitter account hacked, makes false claim of explosions at White House — Anyone that follows the Associated Press on Twitter just heard “news” of an unprecedented national crisis. “Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” the AP's account tweeted moments ago.

Patti Domm / CNBC:

False Rumor of Explosion at White House Causes Stocks to Briefly Plunge; AP Confirms Its Twitter Feed Was Hacked

More: CNET and Wonkblog

Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 4 owners begin receiving their $15 ‘Antennagate’ settlement checks from Apple — Payday has come for some of the first responders to the iPhone 4 class action lawsuit. Last February a settlement was reached that granted iPhone 4 owners who had not previously received a free bumper for their “defective” iPhones a $15 payout.

More: PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, TechHive, Examiner, App Advice, Macgasm, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, CNET, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, iPhone and Neowin

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Firefox OS Developer Phones Sold Out After First Few Hours On Sale, But More Are On The Way — Geeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early this morning, offering the Keon for $119 and the more powerful Peak for $194.

More: Engadget, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Digital Media Wire, Forbes, Electronista, The H Open Source and Geekosystem

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T Q1 profit edges up as it adds 291,000 net customers — The telecom carrier sold 6 million total smartphones in the period. — AT&T reported a slight gain in profit even as revenue was a bit lighter than expected. — The Dallas telecommunications provider posted a first-quarter net profit of $3.7 billion, or 67 cents a share.

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Verge, BGR and Business Wire

Alexa Ray Corriea / Polygon:

Pizza Hut launching Xbox 360 app that lets console owners order pizza from Xbox Live — Microsoft and Pizza Hut have partnered up to launch a pioneer app for Xbox Live that will allow users to order from the chain's menu directly through their Xbox 360. — The Pizza Hut for Xbox app makes …

More: CNET, Financial Times, Geek.com, GeekWire, USA Today, Mashable, Technabob, WinBeta, Forbes and Penny Arcade Report

Wall Street Journal:

Hedge Fund Takes $2 Billion Stake in Microsoft — A hedge-fund executive disclosed that his firm owns about $2 billion in Microsoft Corp. stock, stating that the value of the software giant's businesses wasn't appreciated by other investors. — Jeffrey W. Ubben, founder of ValueAct Capital Management LP …

More: Computerworld, ZDNet and VentureBeat

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

With over 200TB synced already, BitTorrent opens up its Sync alpha to the public for Windows, Mac, and Linux — BitTorrent on Tuesday announced it has released its file synchronization tool Sync into open alpha. You can download the latest version now for Windows, Mac, and Linux over at labs.bittorrent.com.

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog, GigaOM and BetaNews

TechCrunch:

Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation — We're hearing from multiple sources that design-focused retail site Fab is raising a new round of funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company has previously raised $171 million in funding and we're hearing it seeks to raise more than $100 million in this round.

More: PSFK and Valleywag

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Salesforce.com beefs up Marketing Cloud with Social.com — Summary: The social enterprise purveyor's Marketing Cloud balloons with a new brand and social monitoring tool. — Salesforce.com is turning things up a notch for its Marketing Cloud platform with a new product styled similarly to its other cloud-based products: Social.com.

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Register, Marketing Land, The Next Web, Electronista, PC World, Digits, NYT Bits and AdExchanger

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

MuleSoft Buys Programmable Web From Alcatel-Lucent, Marking The Telco's Departure From A Core API Community — MuleSoft has acquired Programmable Web from Alcatel-Lucent effectively marking the telecommunication company's exit from a core API community. — For MuleSoft, a data integration company …

More: MuleSoft, The Next Web, ProgrammableWeb and GigaOM

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

BlackBerry announces Q10 launch in Canada on May 1 for $199 with a 3-year contract at Rogers, Bell, and Telus — BlackBerry on Tuesday announced the BlackBerry Q10 will be launching in Canada first on May 1. Those interested will be able to get it from Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility …

More: BGR, Engadget, Inside BlackBerry and Wall Street Journal

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Challenges Yelp With Mobile Pages Redesign Featuring Actions, Local Biz Details, And Ratings — People go to Yelp for reviews, but also for phone numbers, addresses, and hours. Facebook wants that traffic, so today it rolled out a global redesign of mobile Pages that features details …

More: Facebook Studio, CNET, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, HubSpot's Inbound …, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, Local Media Watch, SlashGear and Android Community

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft targets end of May for expanded Surface Pro availability — Summary: Microsoft is broadening availability of its Surface Pro PC/tablet hybrids during May and June, officials are saying. — After a couple of months of silence, Microsoft officials are sharing more about expansion plans for the company's Surface devices.

More: Surface Blog, PC Magazine, CITEworld, Computerworld, Engadget, LiveSide.net, BetaNews, Ars Technica, WebProNews, IntoMobile, TechNet Blogs, Neowin, WindowsObserver.com and WinBeta

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Shapeways Raises $30M for 3-D Printing Led by Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon — The idea of dreaming up a physical object and having a computer help you bring it to life — a.k.a. 3-D printing — is very cool today, but there's a long way to go. Some of the challenges include faster creation times …

More: Shapeways Blog, VentureBeat, GigaOM, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Acqhires Team From HTML5 Game Platform Spaceport.io, Which Will Keep Running — Spaceport.io has just announced that part of its team, but not its technology, is moving to Facebook, and the social network has confirmed the talent deal to me. But instead of shutting down …

More: spaceport.io, AllThingsD and Inside Facebook

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Google Fiber app for iPad lands in App Store, no iPhone version yet — Google Fiber may be out of reach for most Americans for now, but for customers in Kansas City who currently have the gigabit-speed internet service and a Fiber TV plan, here's some good news: the Google Fiber remote app …

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Google Fiber Blog, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo and App Advice

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