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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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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'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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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 … | 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 … | Roberto A. Ferdman / Quartz: |
Why Apple's first retail store in Brazil is actually a really big deal — Apple is about to take its much-awaited leap into Latin America. — According to Apple news site 9to5Mac, Apple is aiming to launch its first retail store in Brazil by March 2014. The store, which has been under …
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White House OKd spying on allies, U.S. intelligence officials say — NSA and other U.S. intelligence agency staff members are said to be angry at President Obama for denying knowledge of the spying. — The U.S. Embassy, right, sits near Germany's legislative buildings in Berlin.
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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.| 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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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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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Facebook's marketing biz dissed by Forrester — The first line in an open letter from research firm Forrester to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is: “Facebook is failing marketers.” — Apparently, Nate Elliot, Forrester's vice president and author of the open letter, doesn't mince his words.
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Verizon to sell BlackBerry Z30 exclusively in Nov. for $200 — The BlackBerry Z30. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — The BlackBerry Z30 will finally make its way to the US via Verizon Wireless, but will anyone care? — Vivek Bhardwaj, BlackBerry's head of software portfolio … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones — Motorola has unveiled Project Ara, an initiative for modular smartphones with the goal to “do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software.” The company plans to create an ecosystem that can support third-party …
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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 … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Cheapest 150Mbps broadband in big US cities costs 100% more than overseas — Like this giant gold turtle, US broadband is expensive and slow. — Dennis Burger — A new study confirms what you might have expected: US customers are getting hosed when it comes to broadband speeds and prices.
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