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April 27, 2015, 5:15 PM

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Apple:
Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results  —  Strong performance of iPhone, Mac & App Store drives 27% revenue growth & 40% EPS growth, setting new second quarter records  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended March 28, 2015.
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Apple sold a whopping 61 million iPhones in Q2 2015, disappoints with 12 million iPads  —  Apple's quarterly earnings are in and it's a huge result for iPhone.  —  In the three months of Q2 2015, Apple sold an incredible 61 million iPhones.  That's up from 43 million iPhones during …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Reports Record March Quarter Results of $13.6B Profit on $58B Revenue, Boosts Dividend and Buybacks  —  Apple today announced financial results for the second fiscal quarter and first calendar quarter of 2015.  For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $58 billion and net quarterly profit …
Stan Chudnovsky / Facebook:
Facebook adds video calling to Messenger in select countries including US, Canada, Mexico and parts of EU, on both iOS and Android  —  Introducing Video Calling in Messenger  —  Today, we're introducing video calling in Messenger.  Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends …
Allen Lo / Google Public Policy Blog:
Google announces Patent Purchase Promotion, experimental marketplace to sell patents to the company, open from May 8 to 22  —  Announcing the Patent Purchase Promotion  —  We invite you to sell us your patents.  The Patent Purchase Promotion is an experimental marketplace for patents that's simple, easy to use, and fast.
Jaimee Minney / Slice Intelligence:
Only 376K or 22% of 1.7M ordered Apple Watches shipped on the first weekend  —  Watching and Waiting: Only 22 Percent Apple Watches Shipped First Weekend  —  Most people who pre-ordered an Apple Watch did not receive one in the first wave of shipments, with Slice Intelligence reporting …
Tim Higgins / Bloomberg Business:
Apple's HealthKit connected to 80K patient files at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center  —  Apple's HealthKit Linked to Patients at Big Los Angeles Hospital  —  Apple Inc.'s health-tracking software is being connected to patient files at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
With Discover joining this fall, Apple Pay will support all four major credit cards in US  —  Discover Signs On With Apple Pay  —  Credit card provider Discover will join Apple Pay's ranks beginning this fall, the company announced today.  Apple Pay already supports cards from Visa …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Sources: Amazon Plans ‘Prime For Business’, Folding AmazonSupply Into Big B2B Play  —  Amazon last week disclosed that its Amazon Web Services business made nearly $1.6 billion in revenues last quarter with profits of $265 million, but that is not the only effort the e-commerce, cloud and distribution giant is making on the B2B front.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Engineering Director Lars Rasmussen Leaving Facebook To Co-Found A Music Startup  —  Facebook at Work, Facebook's first move to turn its social network into an enterprise tool, has remained in closed beta since its launch in January this year.  But as the product continues to inch …

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