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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 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 …
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| 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 …
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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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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 … | 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 …
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Evernote 5 beta launches on Windows, bringing the interface in line with the Mac app — Evernote has just launched Evernote 5 beta for Windows, a major update which features a redesigned interface that shares many similarities with Evernote 5 for Mac. In addition to the new design …
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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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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 …
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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.| 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).
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Gigya's Blog, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land, SocialTimes and ClickZ
| 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.
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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 … | 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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