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October 29, 2013, 2:00 AM

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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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