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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Strong iPhone Sales Drive Record March Quarter Revenue and 15 Percent EPS Growth — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended March 29, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $45.6 billion …
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Apple reports $45.6 billion revenue for Q2 2014: 43.7m iPhones, 16.3m iPads, 4.1m Macs, 2.7m iPods — Apple just announced its second quarter results for 2014 with revenue for the quarter coming in at $45.6 billion. That's compared to the guidance it previously provided of $42 …
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Apple Beats In Q2 2014 With $45.6B Revenue, $10.2B Profit And $11.62 EPS — Apple has just released its fiscal Q2 2014 earnings, reporting $45.6 billion in revenue, $10.2 billion in net profit representing $11.62 per share. Compared to the year-ago quarter, it corresponds to a growth …
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Facebook Reports First Quarter 2014 Results - Revenue was $2.50 billion, up 72% vs Q1 2013 - Revenue from advertising was $2.27 billion, up 82% vs Q1 2013 - CFO David Ebersman stepping down later this year; will be succeeded by David Wehner — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Facebook CFO Ebersman to Depart Social Networking Giant — Will Likely Focus on Health Care Space — David Ebersman — the CFO who took Facebook public and attracted some level of scrutiny for its rocky initial ride — is departing the company later this year.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Mark Pincus Steps Down From All Operational Roles at Zynga: “Ultimately a Ship Is Better With One Captain” — Mark Pincus is stepping down from all operational duties at Zynga, the social gaming company that he founded in 2007. As part of the change, he will shift to non-executive chairman …
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iOS 7.1 code indicates Apple working on Siri for Apple TV — Code found within the iOS 7.1 SDK suggests that Siri is headed to the Apple TV in future. Pierre Blazquez first found the reference on Friday. 9to5Mac has since confirmed that the code does exist in both iOS 7.1 and iOS 7.1.1′s files.
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| Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC to propose net neutrality rules on Thursday that would let broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment — FCC To Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules — The Federal Communications Commission plans to propose new open Internet rules on Thursday that would allow content companies …
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FCC to Release Draft Net Neutrality Rules in May — Federal regulators are expected to release draft net neutrality rules in mid-May as part of an ongoing effort to craft rules for Internet traffic that might actually hold up in court. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler …
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Etsy buys Grand St. — The handmade marketplace has acquired Grand St., a marketplace for indie electronics. — FORTUNE — Etsy, the operator of a handmade marketplaces, has acquired Grand St. — Grand St., which sells indie electronics online, had raised $1.3 million in seed funding …
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Meet the One, OnePlus' $299 Nexus killer — Rarely do we see a tech startup spending five months actively hyping up an unborn product; and when we do, most of them end up being vaporware. Luckily, that's not the case with OnePlus. Today, the Shenzhen-based company has finally unveiled …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Start Menu set to return in August — Microsoft revealed earlier this month that the Start Menu will return to Windows 8. While Microsoft is keeping the timing for its return vague, sources familiar with the company's plans tell The Verge that the Start Menu will likely be available …
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Study: Samsung's Apps Are Ubiquitous but Unloved — As Samsung Electronics's best-selling smartphones face increasing competition from a horde of Chinese lookalikes, one of the South Korean giant's key goals has been to translate demand for its devices into interest for Samsung's homegrown software and services.
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Maps ‘Time Machine’ Lets You Stroll the Streets of the Past — Ever wish you could travel back in time? A new feature on Google Maps Street View, rolling out world-wide today, lets users zip through imagery dating back to Street View's beginning in 2007.| Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
Glass marketing head addresses criticism from Scoble, others: backlash is a sign of disruption — Does Google Glass Have An Optics Problem? And Does Google Care? — It's hard to judge the success of a product launch before the product is even really out in the market.| Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom: |
Amazon adds HBO shows to Prime Instant Video; HBO Go coming to Fire TV at some point — Amazon now has streaming rights to a number of HBO series and will make them available through Prime Instant Video starting May 21, the company said Wednesday. — In addition, Amazon said that it will add HBO …
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