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October 28, 2013, 5:30 PM

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Apple:

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — iPhone Sales Grow 26% to Establish New September Quarter Record — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $37.5 billion and quarterly net profit …

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple's Q4 '13 Beats With $37.5B Revenue, $7.5B Profit And $8.26 EPS On Strong iPhone Sales — Apple has just released its fiscal Q4 2013 earnings, reporting $37.5B in revenue, $7.5B in net profit representing $8.26 per share. That marks a y/y growth of 4.2% in Revenue and 4.7% decline in EPS, with net profit down 8.6% y/y.

More: Digits, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Gigaom and ZDNet

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Apple sold 33.8m iPhones and 14.1m iPads in Q4 2013, up 25.7% and up 0.7% year-over-year respectively

More: AllThingsD, Digits and Guardian

Dan Frommer / TechCrunch:

Apple's Rebound Quarter In Charts

More: Fortune

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Google ramps up Glass production ahead of launch, Explorers can invite three friends to join — Google upgrades Glass hardware, offering one-time swap for existing users — Production of Google Glass has accelerated recently, according to the Financial Times.

More: Google Glass, Financial Times, ZDNet, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Phandroid and SlashGear

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google Glass 2 is coming, finally compatible with prescription glasses — The first version of Google Glass, with an internal-only glasses mod. — A new version of Google Glass is coming. Google announced today that current owners of Google Glass, called “Glass Explorers,” will be eligible to …

More: VentureBeat, Marketing Land and Gigaom

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPad Air Supplies Expected to Be Plentiful at Launch With In-Store Pickup Available — When Apple launches orders for the iPad Air on Friday, November 1, the company will reportedly accept requests for Personal Pickup, according to a source who notified MacRumors about Apple's plans.

More: 9to5Mac, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks and App Advice

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Samsung Launches Five SDKs To Lure Developers Into Its Hardware Web — Samsung kicked off its first Developer Conference in San Francisco today, and the Korean tech juggernaut is eager to show just how much it cares about the devs building apps and services for its hardware ecosystem.

More: Engadget, CNET, Gigaom, AllThingsD, Gigaom and Forbes

Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Pursues Developers, Seeking Orbit of Apps

More: Yahoo! News. Tweets: @wsj

Spiegel Online:

The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin — According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations.

More: USA Today, TechCrunch, New York Times, Telegraph, Gigaom, Mashable, Guardian, CNET, BBC and Just Security. Tweets: @pierrefitter. Thanks:@alexia

Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire:

The NSA Collected Data on 60 Million Phone Calls in Spain

More: Guardian, Reuters, CCTV News, BBC, Associated Press, Fox News and NBCNews. Tweets: @ggreenwald

Wall Street Journal:

Obama Unaware as U.S. Spied on World Leaders: Officials

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung signs three-year deal to supply NBA with courtside tablets and monitors — NBA Teams Up With Samsung — The National Basketball Association has signed a wide-ranging, $100 million deal with Samsung Electronics Co. to bring the South Korean company's technology courtside at its games …

More: SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, PC Magazine, Droid Life, TechSpot, CNET, Gigaom, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidHeadlines.com, PhoneArena, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, Electronista, Mashable and GSMArena Blog

Tweets: @jchengwsj and @wsj

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Syrian Electronic Army Targets President Obama in Latest Hack — Add President Obama to the list of the latest high-profile hacks. — A handful of sites affiliated with the President's nonprofit issue advocacy group, Organizing for Action, were compromised by a group of hackers on Monday morning …

More: Quartz, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, Daily Mail, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Digits and The Hacker News

Marc Parry / Wired Campus:

‘The Zuckerberg Files’: New Scholarly Archive Scrutinizes Facebook CEO — In 2010 two privacy scholars published an op-ed criticizing the “Machiavellian” public-relations methods of tech companies like Facebook. They analyzed a PR script that may sound familiar to many of Facebook's 1.2 billion users.

More: Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, Betabeat, AllFacebook, Ars Technica, Gawker, CNET, Gigaom, WebProNews, Daily Dot and TechPresident

Kathleen Pender / San Francisco Chronicle:

Tech, social media employers offer perks aplenty — Photo: Sarah Rice, Special To The Chronicle — Bay Area tech and social media companies are engaged in an arms race to see who can offer the most - and most unusual - benefits to employees. — While most Americans would be happy …

Tweets: @kristinaweise

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Twitter to Wait Until After IPO to Name Woman — Likely With International Cred — to Board — According to sources close to the situation, Twitter is planning on waiting until after its IPO — which is set to take place next week — to name its first woman to its board.

More: The Atlantic Wire

Jennifer Baker / PC World:

Google's European antitrust remedies don't cover google.com searches — Google's proposal aimed at dodging a fine from the European Commission for allegedly breaking competition rules doesn't include any changes to how search results are presented on the Google.com domain.

More: Computerworld, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Associated Press, Reuters, The Register and Forbes. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Todd Wasserman / Mashable:

Starbucks Lets You Buy Coffee for a Friend via Twitter — In the '70s, a Coke ad envisioned a day in which you could buy the world Coke to promote harmony. Now, Starbucks is letting you do something similar, with the help of Twitter. — The coffee giant is launching a beta program called Tweet …

More: Fast Company, ABC News, TechHive, WebProNews, The Switch, GeekWire, [a]listdaily, TIME, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, TechnoBuffalo and Digital Trends. Tweets: @starbucks. Thanks:@jimprosser

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