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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google Glass 2 is coming, finally compatible with prescription glasses — Upgrades will go out to existing users; we just don't know when or for how much. — A new version of Google Glass is coming. Google announced today that current owners of Google Glass, called “Glass Explorers,” …
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| 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.
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| 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.| Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
| 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.
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| Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire: |
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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Fast Company, ABC News, TechHive, WebProNews, The Switch, POPSUGAR, GeekWire, [a]listdaily, TIME, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo and Digital Trends. Tweets: @starbucks. Thanks:@jimprosser
| 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.
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