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.

New Nexus 7 up for pre-order at Best Buy with Android 4.3 and $229.99 starting price  —  As if that Best Buy Nexus 7 flyer wasn't enough, the big retailer is stepping up its efforts to preempt Google's tablet announcement by posting its pre-order pages for the device ahead of the official launch.

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?

The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers  —  In a terse statement late Tuesday evening, the White House blasted the so-called “Amash Amendment” that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to collect data on personal phone communications …

Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform  —  What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform?  —  Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.

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 …

Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2  —  Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private.  —  Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, investment firm Silver Lake …

BlackBerry's upcoming A10 flagship leaks in photos and video  —  BlackBerry is reported to be working on a bigger and faster flagship smartphone called the A10, and a new series of leaked photos have provided one of our best looks yet at the upcoming device.

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.

NYT Reporter's Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue  —  Something Twittery this way comes.  —  The upcoming book detailing the backstory on Twitter, penned by New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton, was listed for preorder on Amazon this morning.

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 …

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.

NVIDIA QUADRO K6000 becomes new world's most powerful graphics card for professionals  —  This week at the annual computer graphics conference known as Siggraph, NVIDIA has let loose information on their next-generation NVIDIA QUADRO K6000.  This is NVIDIA QUADRO release …

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.

Is Ibrahim Balic Behind the Apple Dev Center Hack?  Maybe Not.  —  Is Ibrahim Balic behind the hack that drove Apple to take its Developer Center offline for a few days and completely overhaul the security measures protecting it?  —  Balic, an independent security researcher, believes he is.