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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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| 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 …
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Apple: Future Versions Of OS X To Be Free, $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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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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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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| 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.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Flirts With a New Idea: “Big” Movies at Your House, the Same Day They're in Theaters — Netflix made a splash this year by creating its own TV shows and delivering them over the Web. Now it's toying with the same idea for movies. — This summer, the company announced that it in addition … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Cook tells employees Apple ‘has never been stronger,’ plans to address company tomorrow — Following Apple's earnings results for Q4 2013, which includes a record iPhone sales number for the September quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook has emailed employees to congratulate them on the results.| 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 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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| Hanno Schlichting / Mozilla Services: |
Introducing the Mozilla Location Service — The Mozilla Location Service is an experimental pilot project to provide geolocation lookups based on publicly observable cell tower and WiFi access point information. Currently in its early stages, it already provides basic service coverage …
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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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| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com: |
Nexus 5 pre-registration goes live at WIND Mobile, reveals full specs — This is a very interesting turn of events. — WIND Mobile, via their Facebook page, has gone live with Nexus 5 ‘pre-registrations.’ This device has yet to be officially announced by Google or LG.
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| Rocco Pendola / TheStreet.com: |
Netflix Is Not Coming to Comcast, TWC — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Between articles on Seeking Alpha in 2011 and TheStreet since then, I have characterized, with more than ample support, Netflix (NFLX) as a walking contradiction. And, as my reporting throughout this article …
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| Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo: |
How Kentucky built a reliable and easy-to-use online health care marketplace in just 9 months — How Kentucky Built The Country's Best Obamacare Website — Kentucky did it right. The state's online health insurance marketplace has become Obamacare's city on a hill while the federal HealthCare …
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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 … | 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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