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July 23, 2014, 4:39 AM

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Apple:

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 …

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Tim Cook Says Businesses Could Revive Slowing iPad Sales — Although iPad sales were below analyst projections for a second straight quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the tablet can continue to grow, particularly if Apple can increase sales to businesses.

More: Quartz, The Network Garden and Wall Street Journal

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%

More: Gigaom, Tech in Asia, Wall Street Journal, Vox, 9to5Mac, eWeek, FierceWireless, Computerworld, Businessweek, CNET, InvestorPlace, The Verge, Mashable, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, BGR, DailyTech, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine and Neowin. Tweets: @reckless

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces Q3 2014 revenue of $37.4b: 35.2m iPhones, 13.2m iPads, 4.4m Macs

More: Re/code, Computerworld, iPhone Hacks and TechnoBuffalo

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iTunes by the Numbers: $4.5B Revenue, Billings up 25% Year-Over-Year, $20B Paid to Devs, 75B App Downloads

More: TechCrunch

Microsoft:

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 …

More: The Verge, CITEworld, Gigaom, Engadget, BGR, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, The Register, ReadWrite, WinBeta, PC World, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Next Web, VentureBeat, New York Times, BBC, Tech Trader Daily, TIME, Windows Phone Central and ZDNet

Tweets: @maryjofoley, @fmanjoo, @fxshaw, @bdsams, @dinabass and @carnage4life

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's enterprise offerings continue to carry the day

More: Brier Dudley's blog

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Microsoft to merge three versions of Windows into one converged OS for all screen sizes

More: The Verge and Patently Apple. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft mum on Xbox One sales; notes 1.1M ‘Xbox consoles’ shipped in past 3 months

More: VentureBeat

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Reports $23.38B FQ4 Revenue Including $2B In Phone Top Line, Misses With EPS Of $0.55

More: WinBeta

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft's profit declines 7.1% as it absorbs Nokia's money-losing cellphone business

More: Re/code and Wall Street Journal

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Amazon Fire phone review: a unique device, but you're better off waiting for the sequel — After producing a long line of e-book readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won't be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon.

More: New York Times, The Verge, Business Insider, Gigaom, Yahoo!, CNET, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, GeekWire and 9to5Google

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Amazon Fire phone: Dynamic Perspective disappointing, Firefly inconsistent, one carrier a drawback, and new features often frustrating

More: Ars Technica

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 …

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, PC World, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, iMore, App Advice, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Valleywag, The Technology Chronicles, MacRumors, CNET, MacNN and The Mac Observer

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.

More: Marketing Solutions Blog, Bizo, New York Times, VentureBeat, MarketWatch, Business Insider, ZDNet, AdExchanger, ReadWrite, bizjournals and SocialTimes

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.

More: Marketing Land, The Next Web, SlashGear, Business Insider, Mashable, The Technology Chronicles, The Register and TIME

Tweets: @reichenstein, @emjbanks, @qthrul, @ftrain and @glennf

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 …

More: Hugo Barra, PandoDaily, iPhone in Canada Blog, Global Nerdy, Daring Fireball, GadgeTell, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Business Insider, Phandroid, BetaNews and Re/code

Tweets: @sascha_p, @kevinroose, @llsethj, @fromedome and @joshuatopolsky

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Xiaomi's latest phone gets a steel frame, IR blaster and top specs for just $320

More: Xiaomi - Facebook, PhoneArena, The Next Web, The Next Web, CNET, Gigaom, Business Insider, Reuters, Ars Technica, Fox News, CNET, Reuters, Neowin, Mobile Magazine, BBC, VentureBeat, Electronista, AnandTech and Softpedia News

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Xiaomi announces its first wearable device, a $13 fitness band

More: The Verge, CNET, ParisLemon, Engadget, CIO.com, 9to5Google, SlashGear and Connectedly

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 …

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Techdirt, Boing Boing, DailyTech, BGR, Gawker, Salon, CNET, VentureBeat, DSLreports, FierceCable, Gizmodo and TechHive. Tweets: @pmarca

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 …

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Sunrise Raises $6 Million From Balderton And Others To Build The Perfect Calendar — A year and a half after launching its first calendar app, Sunrise is raising a $6 million Series A round from Balderton Capital and existing investors — Bernard Liautaud is joining the board.

More: Sunrise and Venture Capital. Tweets: @ccheever

Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:

Ex-Goldman trader raises $1.6M for bitcoin exchange bitFlyer, looking to expand beyond Japan by year end — Ex-Goldman Trader's Bitcoin Exchange to Fill Mt. Gox Void — Yuzo Kano quit Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS:US) twice: once for a rival bank, the second time to open Japan's first bitcoin exchange since the collapse of Mt. Gox.

More: CoinDesk and NEWSBTC

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 …

More: BetaNews, ABC News, LAPTOP Magazine, The Next Web, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Electronista, GeekWire, TechHive, Business Insider, WebProNews, Android Police, The Verge, Engadget and Gizmodo. Tweets: @chriswelch

Brandon Chester / AnandTech:

Google Play App Updated to 4.9.13 With Material Design App Pages — Google has begun the rollout of an update to the Google Play application on Android. At first glance the update doesn't seem to have any big changes. The sliding menu is the same, and the Play Store home page is the same as it has been for a while.

More: Engadget, Droid Life, The Next Web, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google and Ubergizmo

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