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Apple:
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Record March Quarter Drives 83 Percent Revenue Growth, 95 Percent Profit Growth — Record iPhone Sales Grow 113 Percent — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 second quarter ended March 26, 2011.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's 92% earnings windfall: The bloggers nail it, the pros miss by a mile — The shortfall in iPad sales was one of the few categories the Street called correctly — Click to enlarge. — The Wall Street analysts who get paid to cover Apple (AAPL) got some things right.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Shares Up, Huge iPhone And Mac Sales Overshadow Weak iPad
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Inquirer, AppleInsider, Guardian, Appolicious Advisor, MobileCrunch, eWeek, Penn Olson, mocoNews, Ars Technica, Digits, TheStreet.com, MediaFile and SAI
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Most Successful Store No One Cares About: Apple's iTunes Posts a Record $1.4 Billion Quarter
Microsoft:
Nokia and Microsoft Sign Definitive Agreement Ahead of Schedule — Key contributions to new global mobile ecosystem agreed and significant progress made on engineering of new products. — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement …
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Exclusive: Microsoft's Lees and Nokia's Oistamo Talk About Their Just-Signed Contract — Microsoft and Nokia are announcing today that the two companies have signed a definitive contract, fully committing each other to the partnership announced back in February.
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BGR, TechEye, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser.com
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia's Q1 2011: smartphone share down to 26 percent, ‘more challenging’ times ahead
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Mobilized, The Register, PC World, CNET News, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Agence France Presse, Nokia, BBC, Reuters and IntoMobile
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon activates 2.2 million iPhones in first quarter, 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts — Verizon delivered better-than-expected first quarter results and gave its tally of iPhone activations. The company activated 2.2 million iPhones in the first quarter and 500,000 4G devices, including 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts.
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MediaMemo, 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, SAI, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Reuters, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Electronista, Reuters and MacStories
Alex Levinson:
3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery” — Today, two researchers for O'Reilly media published an article claiming discovery of a hidden tracking system on the iOS 4 operating system. Using simple techniques, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden extracted data off …
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NewEnterprise, F-Secure Antivirus …, broadstuff, willclarke.net, BBC, The Loop, Cult of Mac and The Mac Security Blog
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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Researcher: iPhone Location Data Already Used By Cops
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New York Times, FierceMobileContent and Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste …, Thanks:om
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Amazon EC2 troubles bring down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite and more — The popularity of Amazon's cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely.
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SAI, TechCrunch, NewEnterprise, CNET News and Softpedia News, Thanks:zee
Matt Haughey / A Whole Lotta Nothing:
Ev's assholishness is greatly exaggerated — There's been a bunch of stories lately about Ev Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter upon the occasion of him leaving Twitter to do his own thing. Some are outright calling him an a**hole. This Business Insider story of Noah Glass …
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Feld Thoughts, @caro and @danprimack
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Peter Rojas / gdgt:
Amazon's tablet is coming, but what will it be? — It's something of an open secret that Amazon is working on an Android tablet and I am 99% certain they are having Samsung build one for them. Does the world really need yet another tablet? If it were anyone else, I'd say no …
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Engadget, blogs.chron.com, Fonehome, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, The Next Web, SAI, Electronista, BGR, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Obama: I Want People To Feel The Same About The Next Internet Breakthrough As They Did About The Moonwalk — Obama spent a considerable amount of time preaching to the choir at today's Facebook Town Hall event, first bringing up Intel founder and Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove as an example …
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Digital Trends, Bits, Computerworld, BBC, Mashable!, SAI, All Facebook, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, @facebook, Tech Trader Daily, @dangillmor, @vitanga, @mkapor, @scottbudman, @maggieshiels, @scottmcgrew, @alexia, @mhelft, @shervin, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, @larrymagid, PC Magazine, CBS News, @swildstrom, @larrymagid, @benparr, @sgaudin, @kessler, Friending Facebook Blog, @timoreilly, @scottmcgrew, @thekenyeung, @ceciliakang, CNET News, Pulse2, TechFlash, SAI, Social Markets, TechCrunch and NetworkEffect
Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated — When Gawker launched an aggressive redesign back in early February, the tech blogs were waiting to see what would happen. How would readers respond? (The assumption was that the reaction would be negative …
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SAI, @apatrizio and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple pulled Facebook integration from iOS 4, Media Stream is its replacement — Out of everything revealed in yesterday's white iPhone 4 prototype leak, a small settings pane titled ‘Facebook’ stuck to us the most. The first thing that came to mind was that iOS 4 was supposed to include some Facebook integration.
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Electronista, IntoMobile, App Advice and SAI, Thanks:tc_geeks
Luis Merlos / BerryReview.com:
Hulu Wasted Little Time to Block the PlayBook — The PlayBook released just yesterday and it looks like Hulu did not like the idea of allowing PlayBook users to stream media from it. Today Nikolaus excited to get his PlayBook checked to see if Hulu worked and to his surprise Hulu has already blocked the PalyBook.
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CrackBerry.com blogs, TechSpot, SocialTimes.com and BlackBerryandBeyond.com
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Sites Retool for Google Effect — Burned by Google Inc.'s recent changes to its search formula, small businesses are experimenting with strategies to recover lost Web traffic while seeking out new ways to generate sales—some even scaling back daily operations.
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SAI and Search Engine Roundtable
Popular Mechanics:
Should Cops Be Allowed to Scan Your Phone During a Traffic Stop? — In Michigan, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint alleging that Michigan State Police officers used forensic cellphone analyzers to snoop in drivers' cellphones during routine traffic stops.
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Ubergizmo, The Register, Crave, The Tech Herald …, loose wire blog and PC World
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry Curve Touch to be revealed at BlackBerry World; June-July launch — Here's some interesting information for you BlackBerry lovers out there. We finally have some firm details surrounding the GSM counterpart to the Malibu, which will be a CDMA Curve Touch launching late fall.
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SlashPhone, TmoNews, Know Your Cell, GottaBeMobile and LAPTOP Magazine
comScore, Inc.:
In Europe, Apple iOS Ecosystem Twice the Size of Android When Accounting for Mobile Phones, Tablets and Other Connected Media Devices — comScore Releases First European Data on Media Tablet Users from MobiLens Service — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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www.pocketgamer.biz and Android Community
Electronista:
Foursquare co-founder makes unusual stop at Apple — Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley drew some attention Wednesday with a check-in at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. The post itself gave no clues but saw him check in at the same time as Holger Luedorf, the company's key organizer …
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SlashGear and 9 to 5 Mac
Neowin.net:
Exclusive: Chrome notebooks confirmed to be released June/July — To be sold as a subscription. — You may or may not have seen the news about the Google Chrome production notebooks floating around the web today. Ariotech reports that “Google product manager Sundar Pichai said …
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Computerworld, TeleRead, TechSpot, Chrome OS Site, Electronic Pulp, thechromesource, Ubergizmo, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Geek.com, Thanks:neowinsteve
Jon Swartz / USA Today:
Tech jobs boom like it's 1999 — SAN FRANCISCO — Some 20 recruiters sized up Scott Mersy as they would a star high school running back. But instead of timing his 40-yard dash or checking his percentage of body fat, they were interested in his stats in cloud computing and online marketing.
