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Apple Just Had The Most Profitable Quarter Of Any Company Ever — Apple had a pretty good quarter. — And by “pretty good,” I mean it was the biggest quarter in history. And not just for Apple. For any company. Ever. — This page charts the past record holders.| Apple: |
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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Apple reports $16.1B in revenue from greater China, up 70% from same period a year ago — Apple's Earnings Soar on Strong iPhones Sales in China — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is famous for setting trends. — In China, though, Apple has found success by following one.
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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: |
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Yahoo's spinoff of Alibaba holdings is tax-free, remains so if Alibaba eventually buys spinoff — Yahoo Would Rather Not Pay Taxes on Its Alibaba Shares — The basic contours of the Yahoo/Alibaba situation are well known. Yahoo owns Alibaba shares worth $40 billion. Those shares are in a glass box.
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An interview with Slack founder Stewart Butterfield on the company's strategy for a successful launch — From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy — Slack started working on the app at the end of 2012. ("Never mind the part where we first tried … | CBC News: |
Canada's electronic spy agency tracks millions of online movie, photo, music, and other downloads worldwide — CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents — Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance
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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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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 … | 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.”| 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 … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple took down Photos for OS X preview pages, but launch plan still on track — Apple made a small change to its website last year upon the public release of OS X Yosemite that has led some to question the release date of Photos.app for Mac. Originally announced for an “early 2015″ release … | 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.
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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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Lockitron Announces The $99 Bolt, A Deadbolt You Can Unlock With Your Phone — Y Combinator alum Lockitron is today launching the Bolt, a $99 follow-up to its troubled crowdfunded keyless-entry gadget. — Lockitron co-founder Cameron Robertson says the company learned a lot from the difficulties …
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Sony to ax another 1,000 workers in smartphone segment — TOKYO — Sony plans to cut an additional 1,000 employees in its smartphone business, mainly in Europe and China, under an effort to bring the segment into the black. — The Japanese electronics giant had announced last October …
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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 …
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