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January 27, 2014, 8:05 PM

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Apple:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results  —  iPhone and iPad Sales Drive Record Revenue and Operating Profit  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended December 28, 2013.  The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $57.6 billion and quarterly net profit …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Apple breaks its sales records with 51M iPhones and 26M iPads sold in Q1 2014  —  Apple breaks iPhone and iPad sales records in Q1 2014  —  51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads bring Apple record revenue  —  Apple predicted its first financial quarter of 2014 to be a big one, and those predictions were spot on.
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Digits:
Apple Had Trouble Keeping Up with Demand for iPhone 5S, CFO Says  —  Apple's chief financial officer said the new high-end iPhone 5S sold better at the end of the year than Apple's own projections, but didn't elaborate on demand for the new less-expensive iPhone 5C.
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data  —  GCHQ documents use Angry Birds - reportedly downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study for app data collection.  —  The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities …
Bloomberg:
Perkins: I Regret Using the Word Kristallnacht  —  In an exclusive interview, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers Co-Founder Tom Perkins discusses his comments comparing the treatment of wealthy Americans to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.  He speaks exclusively with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's “Bloomberg West.”
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
FBI seized entire TorMail database in Freedom Hosting investigation, now executes search warrants on it for unrelated cases  —  If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox  —  While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
CEO of Winklevoss-funded BitInstant arrested in Silk Road investigation, charged with money laundering  —  Winklevoss-Funded Bitcoin Startup's CEO Arrested In Silk Road Investigation  —  The widening circle of arrests in the investigation of the Silk Road drug market sites just extended into the heart of the Bitcoin community.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Reversing course, Google rejects Adobe Web publishing tech  —  It can be hard to say no to an idea with some merit — especially after already saying yes.  —  But that's the position Google is in with an Adobe Systems technology for bringing more sophisticated, magazine-style layouts …
More: 9to5GoogleTweets: @toddmotto and @elliotgeno
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple execs say iOS and OS X won't merge, and 10.10 will prove that  —  Among the hoopla surrounding the 30th anniversary of the Mac last week, Macworld's Jason Snell had an excellent interview with Apple's Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, and Bud Tribble about both the past and the future for the Mac.
More: Ubergizmo, BGR and TechnoBuffaloThanks:@jordankahn
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Obama administration reaches tentative deal with tech companies to disclose more details on government data requests  —  Government Reaches Deal With Tech Firms on Data Requests  —  Would Allow Internet Companies to Tell Public More Details About Requests

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