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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results — Highest-ever revenue & earnings drive 48% increase in EPS — Growth led by record revenue from iPhone, Mac & App Store — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended December 27, 2014.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Apple sells a record 74.5M iPhones in Q1, a 46% YoY increase, 21.4M iPads, a 21% decrease — Apple breaks its sales records with 74.5M iPhones in Q1 2015, but iPad sales decline 21% to 21.4M — The iPhone continues to carry Apple. — As part of the company's latest quarterly earnings announcement …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple Watch to start shipping in April — Apple CEO Tim Cooks says development for the wearable is “right on schedule.” — Apple's first wearable, Apple Watch, will begin shipping in April, the company's CEO revealed Tuesday. — CEO Tim Cook, speaking during a call with analysts following …
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| Jinen Kamdar / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.
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| Dennis Kish / Google Fiber Blog: |
Google confirms Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham — Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham — It's been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Wall Street Gets What It Wanted From Marissa Mayer: Here's the Yahoo Plan to Spin Off Rest of Alibaba Stake — Yahoo said it would spin off the rest of its stake in China's Alibaba Group today, in order to create a tax-free distribution to its investors. It said the transaction will result … | Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Snapchat's new Discover feature puts news and entertainment a swipe away from your stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers, and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.
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See also Mediagazer| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 software update w/ stability improvements, reduces space required to update — Apple released the iOS 8.1.3 software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users today. The update is available over-the-air through the Software Update section of the Settings app.
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| Richard Leider / YouTube Engineering …: |
YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video instead of Flash — YouTube now defaults to HTML5 — Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube's early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Highly critical “Ghost” allowing code execution affects most Linux systems — New bug haunting Linux could spark “a lot of collateral damage on the Internet.” — An extremely critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distributions gives attackers the ability to execute malicious code … | Costin Raiu / Securelist: |
Researchers say Qwerty keylogger used by Five Eyes governments and Regin malware are developed by the same entity, or by entities working closely together — Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger — On January 17 2015, Spiegel.de published an extensive article based on documents obtained from Edward Snowden.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with fixes for security and WiFi issues, adds support for iCloud Drive in Time Machine — Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 With Security Fixes, iCloud Drive Browsing Options in Time Machine — Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Pay coming to 200,000 vending machines, kiosks, paid parking & other self-serve locations — While individual retailers have been announcing support for Apple Pay as more NFC terminals enable the service, it's still hit and miss on vending machines and other self-serve, unattended hardware.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft readies new free version of its Power BI business intelligence service — Summary:Microsoft is planning to introduce a free version of its Power BI business-intelligence tools/service, and will cut prices on its new, fully featured Pro version. — Microsoft is teeing …
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| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF's Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance — We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. — The entity that's conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world's communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law.
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