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Strong iPhone, Mac & App Store Sales Drive Record September Quarter Revenue & Earnings — CUPERTINO, California—October 20, 2014—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion …
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future — Apple's iPad business was the lone drag in its otherwise strong earnings report today. iPad sales last quarter dropped 13% from the previous year, to 12.3 million, their third straight quarter of decline.| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
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Microsoft launches Azure cloud in a box — Summary: In partnership with Dell, Microsoft is launching its Azure cloud in a box offering, codenamed ‘San Diego.’ — Microsoft is teaming with Dell to create an Azure cloud in a box offering for customers who want to run their own, on-premises datacenters.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay, iCloud Photo Library, SMS Relay & Instant Hotspot, more — Just as Apple announced at its iPad & Mac event last Thursday, iOS 8.1 is now publicly available with new features including Apple Pay, iCloud Photo Library, and additional Continuity features.
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple clarifies Spotlight Search data and location sharing, says information shared is minimal — Yosemite, iOS 8, Spotlight, and Privacy: What you need to know — A story made the rounds earlier today calling into question the new Spotlight Suggestions feature in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.
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Mac Mini 2014 teardown: CPU and RAM soldered to logic board, impeding user repairs or upgrades — Mac Mini Late 2014 Teardown — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. — It's been two years since the Mac Mini's last appearance on iFixit's teardown table … | Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Scammers hack business phone networks to rack up billions in fraudulent charges, vexing carriers and lawmakers — Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions — SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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| Percy / GreatFire.org: |
Report: Chinese authorities conduct “man in the middle” attack on iCloud.com users to harvest their data — China collecting Apple iCloud data; attack coincides with launch of new iPhone — After previous attacks on Github, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, the Chinese authorities … | TechCrunch: |
Yahoo In Talks To Buy Video Ad Platform BrightRoll For Around $700M — Yahoo has been building up its video and video advertising content, and we have heard that it may make another key acquisition in the area to further raise its game. The company is in talks to acquire BrightRoll …
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UK High Court determines ISPs must block sites selling counterfeit goods — Internet service providers must help crack down on fake goods, high court rules — In what is thought to be the first ruling of its kind, the High Court in the UK has determined that ISPs must try to block sites selling counterfeit goods
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook Sues Lawyers of Discredited “Co-Founder” Paul Ceglia — Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued a handful of lawyers who represented Paul Ceglia in a 2010 case in which Ceglia claimed he was entitled to 84 percent ownership of the social network. — Ceglia's claim was dismissed earlier …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Amazon closes multi-year digital and print deal with CBS's Simon & Schuster, one of Big Five publishers — Amazon Closes Multi-Year Deal With Simon & Schuster, The Other Big Five Publisher It Was In E-Book Pricing Negotiations With — Amazon has inked a multi-year deal with Simon & Schuster … | Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger: |
Ooyala, recently acquired by Telstra, buys UK based video ad tech company Videoplaza — Telstra Subsidiary Ooyala Agrees To Acquire Video SSP Videoplaza — The turf war for programmatic video technologies wages on. — Video distribution and analytics platform Ooyala … | Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
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