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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

Chitika Online Advertising Network:

June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84% — Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.

More: GigaOM, Marketing Land, AppleInsider, App Advice, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, The Loop, Internet2Go, AppleTell and Cult of Mac

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

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, MacRumors, Digits, iMore, CITEworld, Inquirer, AppleInsider, The Register, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, Guardian and The Atlantic Wire. 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.

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

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

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

How Apple's profits stack up against Google and Microsoft

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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, GamePolitics blogs, GigaOM 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, @trevortimm and @jayrosen_nyu

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.

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

Tweets: @droid_life, @zpower and @dannysullivan

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

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

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

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Exclusive: Moto X Camera's New Minimalist User Interface And Swipe Gestures

More: Electronista, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Android Authority, BGR and Ubergizmo

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, eWeek, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, SuperSite for Windows and Gotta Be Mobile

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, WebProNews, 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

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

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter — There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds …

More: Softpedia News, hypebot, TechCrunch and WebProNews

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, ZDNet, CNET 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, DSLreports and NPR

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

LG sells a record-breaking 12.1m smartphones in Q2 2013, revenue up 10.1% YoY to $13.6b — LG announced today its second-quarter earnings of KRW15.23 trillion ($13.6 billion), up 10.1 percent year-over-year due to sales increases in most of its business units.

More: Engadget, Reuters and Android Beat

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