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July 19, 2013, 4:10 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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Gigya: Only 2 Percent Of Social Sharing Happens On Google+  —  Despite a reportedly growing user base, Google+ isn't popular when it comes to sharing content on social networks.  —  A new report from Gigya says that only two percent of social sharing happened on Google+ in Q2 of this year (April-June 2013).
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.
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: Sammy Hub and 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 …

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