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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 …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook admits iPhone 5c share lower than expected, says demand was ‘different than we thought’ — Though Apple doesn't break down sales of individual iPhone models, Chief Executive Tim Cook admitted on Monday that sales of the iPhone 5c represented a smaller mix of total handset sales than his company anticipated.
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
iPhone sales miss expectations, Apple shares down 8% in after-hours trading — Apple's iPhone sales, revenue forecast fall short; shares slide — (Reuters) - Lower-than-expected holiday iPhone sales and a weak revenue forecast by Apple Inc renewed fears about Chinese demand and a tepid global market …
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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 …
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| NBC News: |
2012 GCHQ presentation details “Squeaky Dolphin” program for “broad real-time monitoring of online activity” on YouTube, Facebook, Blogger — Snowden docs reveal British spies snooped on YouTube and Facebook — The British government can tap into the cables carrying …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Framing Google Glass: the headset of the future now works with prescription lenses — Just shy of a year after the Google Glass Explorer edition started arriving on early adopters' doorsteps, Google is announcing a way for people who need prescription glasses to use it.
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Google Glass to Be Covered by Vision Care Insurer VSP — SAN FRANCISCO — Google and VSP, the nation's biggest optical health insurance provider, have struck a deal to offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Apple says it received less than 250 National Security Orders in the first half of 2013 — Following the terms of an agreement announced today between government agencies and a number of tech companies, Apple has released an updated report on National Security and Law Enforcement requests.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
More on DeepMind: AI Startup to Work Directly With Google's Search Team — Google has been buying a lot of crazy stuff lately. At least eight robot companies, including humanoid robot-maker Boston Dynamics. Nest, the smart home company that designs thermostats and smoke detectors.
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| Bill Laing / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft contributes cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project — On Tuesday, I will deliver a keynote address to 3,000 attendees at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, Calif. where I will announce that Microsoft is joining the OCP, a community focused on engineering …
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Jason Calacanis' Mahalo Is Reborn As Mobile News App Inside — Jason Calacanis is getting back into the news business with a new app called Inside, which highlights and summarizes the top news stories. — Although Calacanis has been involved in several startups and startup events … | Craig Karmin / Wall Street Journal: |
Starwood Hotels tests allowing customers to skip check-in desk, open rooms with smartphone app — Smartphones to Open Doors at Some Hotels — Starwood to Begin Test of Virtual Keys Stored in Apps … Guests arriving at the Aloft Hotel in Manhattan or one in Silicon Valley will soon … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Is Seeking “Editors” for News App — For years, Facebook has sworn by the power of algorithms to serve users a personalized mix of status updates, stories and photos. It's what makes up the heart of the company's premier product, the News Feed. — Soon, Facebook will add another approach …
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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 … | 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 … | 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.”| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
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