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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 year-over-year growth of 4.2 percent in revenue …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple: Future Versions Of OS X To Be Free, Notes $900M Increase In Revenue Deferral Due To Free Software — Today during its earnings call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer confirmed that future versions of OS X would be free. Last week, Apple announced that OS X Mavericks would be available for free …
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| Dan Frommer / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Rebound Quarter In Charts — Apple just reversed its slide, if you can call it that. — After three quarters in a row of slowing sales growth, Apple's September quarter - reported this afternoon - shows a modest re-acceleration. See Matthew Panzarino's post for the financial big picture … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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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.| 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 …
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Google ramps up Glass production ahead of launch, Explorers can invite three friends to join — Google upgrades Glass hardware with prescription models, allows explorers to invite more friends — Production of Google Glass has accelerated recently, according to the Financial Times.
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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.
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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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| 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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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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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Social ad ROI skyrockets: Facebook click rate up 275%, Twitter revenue per visitor up 4X — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Twitter is delivering four times the revenue per visitor this year over last year, and Facebook's ad click-through rate has jumped 275 percent, according to the Q3 Adobe Social Intelligence report, released today.
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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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes available its Azure-based Hadoop service — Summary: Microsoft's HDInsight service — a cloud-based distribution of Hadoop — is generally available. Microsoft's planned complement for Windows Server has been replaced. — Microsoft's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop …
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