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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Best Non-Holiday Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Apple History — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
When will you get Windows 7 RTM? — When will I get Windows 7 RTM? — I recognize this is an important question to have answered. Many of you have said you want to know exactly when you will be able to get your hands on RTM. Last Monday, I gave an update on RTM to close out some myths.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How Much Is That Apple Tablet Going To Cost? Not $399 Or $499. — There are always good bits of data you can pry from Apple's cold fingers during the Q&A sessions of its quarterly earnings conference calls. Today was no different. — As usual, a question came up about Apple entering the …
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:Tech Rumor of the Day: Apple, Verizon Team Up on Tablet
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ning Raises $15 Million More at a-Yes, Really-$750 Million Valuation — In a quiet fundraising effort, Ning has raised $15 million more, a round that is valuing the social networking start-up at an eye-popping $750 million valuation. — In its last fundraising $60 million round a little …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Video First Look: BlackBerry Storm 9550 in Action! — Download Storm 9550 Movie. Be sure to click HD to watch in high quality. — * update: wow, apologies in the video for flipping around the device so much in my hands. must have had too much green tea this afternoon.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million — Yahoo plans on announcing Thursday that has bought Xoopit for a price in the $20 million range, according to several sources, one of its first acquisitions in a long while. — Reached late this afternoon by BoomTown, a Yahoo (YHOO) …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane — There was a time when most aspiring musicians had the same dream: to sign a deal with a major record label. — Now, with the structure of the music business shifting radically, some industry iconoclasts are sidestepping the music giants and inventing …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Probably Not The Palm Pre Chart Roger McNamee Wants To See — “You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” Elevation Partners (which owns a huge portion of Palm) co-founder Roger McNamee told Bloomberg in March.
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Sam Raimi plays ‘Warcraft’ — Director signs on for live-action adaptation of vidgame — Sam Raimi has signed on to direct “Warcraft,” the live-action film adaptation of the fantasy videogame franchise “World of Warcraft.” — Legendary Pictures and vidgame publisher Blizzard Entertainment …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
AT&T to Power Upcoming E-Reader — AT&T said Wednesday that it will provide the 3G data connectivity for Plastic Logic's e-reader when the device becomes available next year. — All Things D — Plastic Logic CEO Richard Archuleta shows off the company's e-reader at the D conference in May.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
HTC Hero review — There's no underestimating the appeal of the HTC Hero; since we shot our unboxing video and preliminary hands-on at the end of last week it's been watched more than 300,000 times. The third Android device to reach the market, the Hero promises not only an updated camera and design …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Adknowledge buys Super Rewards, expands to virtual goods advertising — Offer-based advertising company Super Rewards has been bought by advertising conglomerate Adknowledge in one of the largest acquisitions to date among companies that build services on social networking platforms.
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Chinmei Sung / Bloomberg:
Hon Hai Suspends Security Official Following Suicide of IPhone Employee — Hon Hai Group, the world's largest contract-manufacturer of electronics, suspended a security official at one of its subsidiaries after the death of an employee who lost a prototype of an Apple Inc. iPhone.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Exclusive: MySpace Mail Slated To Launch Thursday — This Thursday, MySpace plans to roll out its own webmail, paidContent has learned from sources familiar with the plans. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). social network, like competitor Facebook, allows messaging—a much-used service …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Dell Drops Adamo Price to Compete with MacBook Air — Dell has dropped the prices of their Adamo ultraportables, matching the low-end MacBook Air. The higher-end Adamo, however, is still more expensive than Apple's top of the line model. Apocalypse is, no doubt, very near.
Digital Photography Review:
Canon develops Hybrid image stabilization system — Canon has developed a ‘Hybrid Image Stabilizer’ that corrects for both linear and rotational shake. The system, which the company claims is a world's first for SLR lenses, will be incorporated into a lens that will be released before the end of 2009.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Digg: New URL-shortening system is here to stay — After two days of silence, Digg has gone on the record to officially acknowledge the change in how its shortened links are redirected, as well as clear up how links will be handled in the future. — The change, which took place on Sunday …
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CNET News:
Microsoft closing YouTube rival — Last month, Microsoft told CNET News it planned to significantly scale back Soapbox. Now it turns out Soapbox will be scaled all the way down to nothing. — “We have decided to shut down the Soapbox feature,” said Microsoft Vice President and MSN leader Erik Jorgensen in an e-mail.
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
The tipping point: iPhone users turn against AT&T — The iPhone crowd has turned into an anti-AT&T mob. Spend 30 seconds on Twitter or perform even the most basic search for iPhone and AT&T information and you're sure to run into some serious rancor from disgusted iPhone users across the country.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Video: Now Serving 1 Billion Views A Month, Including This Amazing Zuck Impression — For the last few months Facebook has been regularly posting promotional videos to its Career site, introducing prospective applicants to all the neat things that go on behind the scenes.
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
HTC to offer Qualcomm BMP-based handsets, hike adoption of Android — Taiwan-based High Computer Tech (HTC) will launch a high-profile 3G handset based on Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (BMP) in September or October targeting the consumer segment, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Mainstream Media Castoff Joins TechCrunch: Welcome Paul Carr — Two weeks ago the venerable UK newspaper The Guardian, facing budget cuts, fired new media columnist and author Paul Carr. Their loss is our gain - he now works for TechCrunch. — Most recently Carr wrote a weekly column …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's Bartz ‘pleased’ about quarter; Aims to make ads less annoying; Gives Bing kudos — Updated: Yahoo delivered second quarter earnings that were better than expected, shed some light on its future plans and even gave a nod to Microsoft's Bing search engine in contrast to comments made just a few weeks ago.
Associated Press:
Chinese Worker Commits Suicide Over Missing iPhone Prototype — GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing, and Apple Inc. responded Wednesday by saying its suppliers are required to treat workers with dignity and respect.
