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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Sales of 31 Million iPhones Set New June Quarter Record — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 third quarter ended June 29, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per diluted share.

Dan Frommer / TechCrunch:

Apple's No-Growth Q3 2013 In Charts — Apple just reported June quarter results, and as expected, sales were pretty flat — up just 1% from last year to $35.3 billion. It's been a while since Apple has released any major new products, and it shows. — A few highlights:

More: VentureBeat and GigaOM

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Apple sold 31.2m iPhones and 14.6m iPads in Q3 2013, up 20% and down 14.1% year-over-year respectively — During its earnings announcement for its fiscal third quarter of 2013, Apple revealed that it sold 31.2 million iPhones and 14.6 million iPads. According to those figures …

More: Ars Technica, Digits, CITEworld, iMore, Guardian, MacRumors, Inquirer, The Register, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Forbes and Computerworld. Tweets: @markgurman

Dan Frommer / TechCrunch:

Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again? — Apple's stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to accelerate, far surpassing its competitors.

More: SplatF

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Apple Beats In Q3 2013 With $35.3B In Revenue, $6.9B In Profit, $7.47 EPS, But Posts Another YOY Earnings Decline — Apple has just released its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings — it reported $35.3 billion in revenue (slightly up 0.9 percent from $35 billion in the year-ago quarter) …

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, iMore, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Computerworld, ZDNet, Digits, CNET, Mercury News, Macworld, WebProNews, PadGadget, Electronista, IntoMobile and Gotta Be Mobile

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Apple in China: $27B sales in the last 12 months, 500K iOS developers

More: CNET, PC World and TechCrunch

AppleInsider:

Apple's iTunes brings in $3.9B in Q3, up 25% from 2012

More: TechSpot

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple at Q3 call: iCloud reaches 320M accounts, 900B iMessages, 125B photo uploads

More: Mashable. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

80% of reduced iPad shipments attributable to channel inventory decline

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Verizon Reveals The $99 Motorola Droid Mini, $199 Droid Ultra, And The $299 Droid Maxx — As if we didn't already have enough Motorola phones to wait for, Verizon showed off a trio of new Motorola DROID smartphones at a (surprisingly cozy) event in New York City.

More: Verizon Wireless, The Verge, iMore, TechHive, Ars Technica, Android Central, BGR, BBC, Macgasm, Gotta Be Mobile, Computerworld, Electronista, CNET, 9to5Google, The Verge, Tech Trader Daily, Yahoo! News, Mashable, AllThingsD, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, FierceWireless, TechSpot, Android Community and The Verge

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @droid_life and @zpower

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Motorola Droid Ultra introduced, overshadowed by Droid Maxx with 48-hour battery life

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Ars Technica, VentureBeat and Droid Life

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Motorola using its own multi-core chip in new Droids (update)

More: Examiner and IntoMobile

Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Facebook to Let You Say Why You Hide News Feed Posts — It's not exactly a dislike button, but Facebook soon plans to roll out ways to better understand why you don't like something in your News Feed. — Currently, when you hide something in your News Feed, Facebook begins feeding …

More: CNET, The Next Web and Engadget

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook's gigantic missed opportunity — It was May 24, 2007 at Facebook's inaugural developers conference f8, held at the San Francisco Design Center. Mark Zuckerberg, just 10 days past his 23rd birthday, was pacing the stage.

More: ReadWrite. Tweets: @rafer, @joab_jackson, @arjunsethi and @eldon. Thanks:@mattlynley

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

AT&T: $32 Billion in Revenue, 6.8 Million Smartphones Including Record Number of Androids — AT&T said on Tuesday that it sold a record number of Android smartphones last quarter, helping fuel adjusted earnings of 67 cents per share on revenue of just more than $32 billion.

More: AT&T, CNET, Electronista, ZDNet and The Verge

Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:

Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It — No one took ownership of Google Reader internally because it wasn't a top priority for Larry Page and his inner circle of lieutenants. And if you aren't working on something that the boss cares about, then what's the point? — Via: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

More: ReadWrite, Gizmodo and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

RTTNews:

Juniper Profit Jumps 70%; CEO To Retire — Computer networking gear maker Juniper Networks Inc. (JNPR: Quote) said Tuesday after the markets closed that its second quarter profit rose 70% from last year, helped by higher revenue and improved margins. — The company's quarterly earnings per share …

More: GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Associated Press and geeks.broadwayworld.com

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Ember for Mac: a digital scrapbook from the makers of Clear — Realmac Software, the developer behind Clear, has just launched its latest creation: Ember, a Mac app for collecting photos, sketches, drawings, and mockups. The app is a lot like Evernote, but focused solely on capturing, annotating, and sharing images.

More: 9to5Mac, GigaOM, PandoDaily, MacStories, Macworld, iDownloadBlog.com, The Industry and TUAW

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Exclusive: Moto X Camera's New Minimalist User Interface And Swipe Gestures — Are you sick of hearing about the Moto X yet? Too bad: it's just over a week until Motorola's official debut, and the Good Ship Google is as leaky as ever. The latest tidbits of information from an anonymous tipster …

More: Electronista, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, SlashGear, Android Authority, MobileSyrup.com and SiliconANGLE

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Dating app Tinder briefly exposed the physical location of its users — Tinder, the popular mobile dating app that matches people based on how they rate each other's photographs, briefly exposed the physical location of its users to other people on the service. — The location information wasn't visible in the app.

More: IntoMobile and Valleywag. Tweets: @kevinroose

George Avalos / Oakland Tribune:

Polycom's CEO Andrew Miller resigns after company finds irregularities in his expense report — SAN JOSE — The chief executive officer of Polycom, Andrew Miller, resigned on Tuesday as the top boss of the videoconferencing company after the company discovered irregularities in his expense reports.

More: VentureBeat, Polycom, ZDNet, Reuters and Tech Trader Daily

Curt Woodward / Xconomy:

We're Number 9! U.S. Slips in Internet Connection Ranking — Here's something to add to your decline-of-the-empire files: the U.S. is falling further behind in world rankings of average Internet connection speeds. — That's the verdict from the latest State of the Internet Report by Akamai …

More: Akamai, The Next Web, Quartz, DSLreports, CNET, SecurityWeek, PC World and Telegraph

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Intel teases a new Haswell processor for thin, potentially fanless tablets — Intel's new Haswell processors are quickly earning a reputation for huge gains in battery life and power efficiency, but the company had another surprise up its sleeve. Today, Intel's announcing a limited run …

More: CNET, AnandTech, Digits, AllThingsD, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld and PC World

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web — Flipboard started on mobile devices, but the magazine app is moving to the web today with the launch of a new site. Its 75 million registered users will be getting access to its superior formatting and curation features for articles, photos and video on their desktops and laptops.

More: Inside Flipboard, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, BetaNews, TechSpot and App Advice. Tweets: @om. See also Mediagazer

Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:

House to Debate Limiting NSA After Snowden Disclosure — The fallout from Edward Snowden's disclosures of top-secret surveillance programs is reaching the floor of the U.S. House through debate over proposals to restrict the National Security Agency. — The discussion, to be limited …

More: The Huffington Post, Pastebin, Techdirt, RT, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Business Insider, Hillicon Valley, GamePolitics blogs and Boing Boing

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