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July 19, 2013, 1:55 AM

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Microsoft:

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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Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Microsoft was wrong: Tablets are not PCs. So now what?

More: Los Angeles Times. Thanks:@citeworld

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft takes $900 million hit on weak Surface RT sales, misses earnings estimates

More: The New Radical, The Verge, The Verge, Computerworld, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and ActiveWin.com. Tweets: @parislemon

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft's Xbox 360 holds onto its US console sales crown for 30 consecutive months, moving 140k units in June

More: TechNet Blogs and VG247

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Microsoft Q4 2013 earnings: $4.97 billion net income, $900 million charge related to Surface RT inventory adjustment

More: AllThingsD, Digits, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, Yahoo! News, The Next Web, WebProNews, GigaOM, Reuters and Tech Trader Daily

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 …

More: Reuters, CNNMoney.com, Search Engine Land, USA Today, AdAge and Bloomberg

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

Google Off 5%: Q2 Misses as ‘Cost-Per-Click’ Falls 6%

More: CNET, Marketing Land and The Next Web

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google's Q2 earnings hurt by Motorola's $342 million loss, will the Moto X be able to reverse the trend?

More: Business Insider, 9to5Google, Engadget, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews, The Verge and Electronista

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

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 …

More: New Yorker, Business Insider, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, 9to5Mac, MacNN, Yahoo! News and iDownloadBlog.com

Businessweek:

Apple's TV Deals, Like the Time Warner Cable Pact, Fail Its Ambitions

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 …

More: Business Insider, Boing Boing, The Verge and The Atlantic Wire

Tweets: @davemcclure, @jayrosen_nyu, @jcstearns and @dangillmor

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Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

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 …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Verizon's Edge phone upgrade plan is the same bad ripoff as AT&T Next

More: MacRumors, Reuters, DSLreports, Computerworld and CNET

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

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.

More: Yelp Official Blog, PR Newswire, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Pocket-lint and Skift

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote for iPhone and iPad Get Shortcuts, Related Notes and Skitch Support — For the latest Evernote for iPhone and iPad update (5.4), we're adding features that will help you rediscover your notes, jump to the content that's important to you, easily annotate just about anything in your account, and learn helpful tips.

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Engadget and SlashGear

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Evernote 5 beta launches on Windows, bringing the interface in line with the Mac app

More: Evernote Blog, AppleInsider, CNET and The Verge

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software activists call for boycott — Netflix is pushing ahead with efforts to get rid of Microsoft's Silverlight plugin and play video straight in the browser instead. The company first introduced HTML5-based video streaming on Google's Chromebooks …

Tweets: @geekbrit and @jmdugan

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

VLC for iOS returns by July 19, re-written from the ground up and fully open-sourced (Update: It's here) — 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 …

More: Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Verge, MacStories, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, AppleTell, AmongTech, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, TUAW, Macgasm, Gear Live and MacNN

AppleInsider:

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.

More: AllThingsD, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, iClarified, MacRumors and TUAW. Tweets: @inafried

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 …

More: The Verge, iPhone Hacks, GigaOM, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, MacRumors, SelfScreens, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Insanely Great Mac and Business Insider. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Nears Deals With 2 U.S. Agencies — Push Into Government Sector Is Gaining Traction — Samsung Electronics Co. is close to signing deals for its devices with two U.S. government agencies, according to people familiar with the matter, signs that the South Korean company's push …

More: CNET

Eric Pfanner / NYT Bits:

Amazon Rejected as Domain Name After South American Objections — A group of Latin American countries appears to have succeeded in an effort to block Amazon, the online retailer, from using. amazon as a new suffix for Internet addresses. — A committee of the Internet Corporation …

More: UPI, seattlepi.com, The Register and PC Magazine

Carla Rivera / Los Angeles Times:

San Jose State will suspend online courses offered with Udacity — San Jose State University is suspending a highly touted collaboration with online provider Udacity to offer low-cost, for-credit online courses after finding that more than half of the students failed to pass the classes.

More: Associated Press, Digits and Mercury News

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 …

More: 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Engadget, iMore, GigaOM, The Verge, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, CNET, MacNN, TUAW and AllThingsD

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