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July 24, 2013, 12:30 AM

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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.

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: eWeek, Ars Technica, Digits, CITEworld, MacRumors, iMore, Guardian, Forbes, Inquirer, AppleInsider, The Register, iPhone Hacks and TechCrunch. 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

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Apple in China: $27B sales in the last 12 months, 500K iOS developers — Apple is doing well in China despite that sales were down this past quarter, CEO Tim Cook said today in the company's third-quarter earnings call. — “Let's put it in perspective,” Cook told analysts and investors.

More: Digits, CNET and TechCrunch

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, The Next Web, AppleInsider, CNET, IntoMobile, ITworld.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Digits, ZDNet, Mercury News, WebProNews, Macworld and Electronista

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

80% of reduced iPad shipments attributable to channel inventory decline

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

Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Tomorrow, Congress Votes on an Amendment to Defund Domestic Spying: Here's How You Can Help — There's a fight brewing in Washington around NSA surveillance, and pro-privacy Representatives from both parties are taking the battle to the budget. The House is gearing up for a vote …

More: Senator Wyden's Blog, The Huffington Post, Wired, GigaOM, GamePolitics blogs and Boing Boing

Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:

The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers

More: Pastebin, Techdirt, New York Times and Hillicon Valley

Tweets: @repjustinamash, @repjustinamash, @jayrosen_nyu and @trevortimm

Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:

House to Debate Limiting NSA After Snowden Disclosure

More: Guardian, RT and Techdirt

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.

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

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

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

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, WebProNews 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

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Granted 49 Patents Covering Lightning, Mac mini, Cameras plus an Interesting Euro Patent with an iPhone Camera Shift — It's a huge day for Apple in respect to newly granted patents. The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 49 granted patents for Apple this morning.

More: AppleInsider, MacNN, iLounge and CNET

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, Electronista, CNET, ZDNet and The Verge

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, Quartz, The Next Web, nextbigwhat.com, PC World, Telegraph, SecurityWeek, CNET and DSLreports

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

WSJ Reporter Heads to Ex-Colleague's New Journalism Startup — Amir Efrati, who has covered Google for The Wall Street Journal for the past three years, plans to head to a new technology journalism startup founded by former colleague Jessica Lessin. — Lessin, the Journal's former Apple reporter …

More: jessica lessin and The Wrap. Tweets: @moorehn, @megan, @learmonth, @valleyhack and @alexia

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: Gizmodo, ReadWrite and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

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, The Industry, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW

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, Valleywag and Business Insider. Tweets: @kevinroose

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 1020 review — There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago. Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device would be a show-stealer — in 2012?

More: BGR, The Verge and ReadWrite

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