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Microsoft reports fourth-quarter and full-year results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $6.07 billion, $4.97 billion, and $0.59 per share.
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| Google: |
Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results — Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. “Google had a great quarter with over $14 billion in revenue - up 19% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “The shift from one screen to multiple screens …
| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Google Results Show Struggle With Mobile — SAN FRANCISCO — Halfway through a year in which Google's stock price had climbed 27 percent, its financial report Thursday indicated to investors that its performance had not matched their expectations. — Google reported second-quarter results …
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Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders — When Apple wanted to revolutionize cellphones, it held hands with AT&T. The partners fought endlessly, but the public loved the finished product: the iPhone. — Now, as Apple tries to reimagine television … | Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File — Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. — Two weeks ago U.S. District Judge …
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Verizon Edge Upgrade Plan Launches August 25th: How it Stacks Up — Verizon Wireless has officially jumped on the smartphone upgrade bandwagon, looking to battle AT&T Next and T-Mobile Jump with its own Edge plan. Available starting August 25th, Verizon Edge spreads the full retail cost …
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Yelp To Acquire Online Reservation Service SeatMe For Up To $12.7M — Yelp has just announced that they've agreed to acquire SeatMe, the startup that set out to battle OpenTable in the restaurant reservation space. — No word yet on the acquisition price, though we're digging.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
VLC for iOS returns by July 19, re-written from the ground up and fully open-sourced — VideoLAN revealed some very exciting news today: VLC for iOS will be back in Apple's App Store by tomorrow (July 19). The company tells TNW the app will be available for free worldwide, requires iOS 5.1 or later …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iWatch's novelty emerges as Apple taps sensor and fitness experts — Apple's Tim Cook, Bob Mansfield, Kevin Lynch — Apple has begun assembling a team of hardware and software engineering, medical sensor, manufacturing, and fitness experts, indicating the company is moving forward … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Nokia chose Windows Phone because it feared Samsung would ‘come to dominate Android’ — Nokia's decision in 2011 to pin the future of its smartphone business on Windows Phone has been heavily scrutinized over the years, but the reasoning behind that choice is only becoming fully clear now.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
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Best Buy shaves $200 off 13-inch MacBook Pros in Back-to-School promotion, $300 for students — Big box electronics retailer Best Buy on Thursday cut the price of select 13-inch MacBook Pro models for its Back-to-School promotion, offering a savings of $300 for students and $200 for regular customers during the ten-day sale.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple, Samsung's latest phones face antitheft stress test — Apple and Samsung's latest phones and their antitheft technology are being tested by state and federal governments on Thursday. — Apple and Samsung's latest smartphones will face the scrutiny of state and federal prosecutors … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
The New York Times Will Release A Gesture-Controlled News App For Leap Motion — The New York Times says it plans to release a Top News app for Leap Motion, the soon-to-be-released controller that will allow users to interact with their computers through gestures — in fact … | Chelsey Dulaney / Bloomberg: |
RetailMeNot Raises $191 Million Pricing IPO at Midpoint of Range — RetailMeNot Inc. (SALE:US), a provider of online coupons from more than 60,000 retailers and brands worldwide, raised $191 million in its U.S. initial public offering, pricing its shares at the midpoint of the range.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases MacBook Air Software Update to Fix Photoshop Screen Flickering and Wi-Fi Connection Issues — Apple today released an update for the Mid-2013 MacBook Air to fix both an issue that caused some users to experience severe flickering when using Adobe Photoshop and a bug that caused …
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| Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Web analytics startup Kissmetrics raises $7M (updated) — [Update: 5:30 pm PT — Space Pencil does business as Kissmetrics] — Serial entrepreneurs Hiten Shah and Neil Patel have raised $7 million for Kissmetrics, a web analytics startup that helps small e-commerce companies make data-driven decisions.| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Google and Microsoft spent a combined $3.4B on infrastructure last quarter — Google and Microsoft both announced their latest quarterly earning on Thursday, and while neither was ideal from an investor point of view, both companies did invest large sums of money into building out their web infrastructure.
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