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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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| 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 … | 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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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple reports $18B profit on record $74.6B revenue for Q1 2015, gross margin of 39.9%; holds $178B cash and marketable securities — Apple Reports Record Earnings and iPhone Sales: $18B Profit on $74.6B in Revenue for Q1 2015 [Conference Call Liveblog In Progress]
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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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See also Mediagazer| 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 … | Dennis Kish / The Official Google 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: |
Yahoo to spin off its 15% Alibaba stake in Q4, creating a new independent holding company, but will retain cash and its stake in Yahoo Japan — 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 … | 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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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
FCC: Blocking Wi-Fi in hotels is prohibited — Marriott asked the FCC to please let it block Wi-Fi. The hotel gets a firm answer. — On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission issued an “Enforcement Advisory” stating that blocking W-Fi in hotels is unequivocally “prohibited.”
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Netflix is revamping its data architecture for streaming movies — Netflix is revamping the computing architecture that processes data for its streaming video service, according to a Netflix blog post that came out on Tuesday. — The Netflix engineering team wanted an architecture …
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| 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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms Windows 10's ‘Spartan’ browser to get extensions — Summary:Microsoft's new ‘Spartan’ browser will include support for extensions at some point, Microsoft officials have confirmed. — Microsoft's new browser for Windows 10, codenamed “Spartan,” will be getting extensions … | Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft is no longer manufacturing the Surface 2 — Microsoft's Surface just had a very healthy quarter, bringing the company $1.1 billion in revenue. While we don't actually know how many units that is, Microsoft says that most of them were its newest model, the Surface Pro 3 …
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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.
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