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July 23, 2013, 9:00 PM

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Apple:
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.
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) …
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 …
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:
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
DataStax Readies For IPO, Raises $45M For Modern Database Platform Suited To New Data Intensive World  —  DataStax has raised $45 million for its scalable, high-performance database platform.  The Series D round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Draper Fisher Jurvetson …

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