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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — iPhone, Mac & Services Growth Drive Record June Quarter Revenue & 20% EPS Growth — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended June 28, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $37.4 billion …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
iPhone sales up 12.7% from a year ago driven by demand from Brazil, Russia, India, and China; iPad sales down 9.2% — Apple Reports Strong iPhone Sales — Sales of Smartphone Jump 12.7% in Latest Quarter, Ahead of Expected Refresh — Apple Inc. reported its second straight quarter …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces Q3 2014 revenue of $37.4b: 35.2m iPhones, 13.2m iPads, 4.4m Macs — Apple today announced its Q3 2014 earnings results, revealing that the company pulled in $37.4 billion in revenue and $7.7 billion in profit during the quarter. … Apple, as always, has also disclosed sales numbers for its main revenue generators.
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Microsoft Cloud Growth Drives Strong Fourth-Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $23.38 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. Gross margin, operating income, and diluted earnings per share ("EPS") for the quarter were $15.79 billion …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi's latest phone gets a steel frame, IR blaster and top specs for just $320 — Having sold 26.11 million phones in the first half of this year, the beast from the East that is Xiaomi is back again with a new flagship Android phone: the MI4. For the first time ever … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
‘One more thing’: ex-Google exec says his Chinese employer is no Apple ripoff — “We're not copying Apple's products. End of story.” — A man wearing a black top and denim jeans stands on stage promising to unveil “one more thing.” As much as that might sound like the familiar finale …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple granted comprehensive ‘iTime’ smartwatch patent with in-strap circuitry, arm gesture support — In one of the clearest signs that Apple is — and has been — working on a smartwatch device, the Cupertino company was on Tuesday granted a patent for a wrist-worn wearable …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Will Acquire Business Marketing Company Bizo For $175M — LinkedIn just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Bizo, a company that helps advertisers reach businesses and professionals. — LinkedIn says the deal is worth around $175 million — 90 percent cash and 10 percent stock.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Quietly Launches Its Consumer-Facing Mobile Wallet App, Amazon Wallet — Amazon's first attempt at its own mobile wallet application, designed for use at the point-of-sale, has made a quiet debut on the Amazon Appstore and on Google Play. However, the current implementation of the new …
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To focus on services, Microsoft should split in two and make the Windows business a separate company — It's Time to Split Up Microsoft — To understand why so many serious Microsoft observers were encouraged by Satya Nadella's week-ago memo Bold Ambition and Our Core,1 it's useful … | William Shatner: |
William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions, calls it “ill conceived” — Facebook Mentions Versus Facebook Pages Apps — I want to talk and compare an app that most of you don't have access to: Facebook Mentions and compare it to the Pages App that anyone who has a Facebook page can download and use.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
There Have Been No Google-Spotify Acquisition Talks — When last we checked in, the Wall Street Journal was surmising, based on a public cocktail between AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in Sun Valley, that a merger could possibly be afoot between their companies.| Chris Morran / Consumerist: |
Comcast Memo: Rep From “Painful” Retention Call Was Doing “What We Trained Him To Do” — A week after the posting of the neediest customer-retention call in Comcast history, the fallout continues, with the company's Chief Operating Officer telling Comcast employees in a memo leaked to Consumerist …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple Faces Class-Action Lawsuit In California Over Alleged Labor Violations Affecting 20K Employees — While Apple today reported its quarterly earnings, another group seized the moment to push out another bit of Apple-related news. The company is being sued in a class-action suit …
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| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Application performance management company AppDynamics raises $120M at $1B valuation, plans eventual IPO — AppDynamics Raises $120M, Valued at $1 Billion for Corporate Software — AppDynamics Inc., whose software monitors how applications are performing in order to help companies avoid bottlenecks …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Timehop, The App That Works As A Digital Time Capsule, Raises $10M Led By Shasta Ventures — Timehop, the app that serves as a personal “today in history” memo by surfacing your social networking photos and posts from a year ago or more, has raised $10 million in new funding.Sponsor Posts
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