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Apple:
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple Q3 a blowout: 20.34 million iPhones; 9.25 million iPads — Apple crushed third quarter estimates as it sold more iPhones and iPads than Wall Street expected. — The company reported earnings of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 a share, on revenue of $28.57 billion.
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Computerworld, AppleInsider, Shiny Objects, Guardian, VatorNews, Inside Mobile Apps, Digits, @tuaw, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Laptops and Desktops Blog and Electronista
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Just like that, the iPad is already bigger than the Mac — It's only been a year and a few months since Apple's iPad launched, but as of last quarter, it has already passed Apple's 27-year-old Mac business in sales. — During the June quarter, Apple sold 9.2 million iPads for $6 billion in revenue.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Business Insider, AllThingsD, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VG247 and @asymco
Jay Yarow / The Business Insider:
Apple Delivers A Massive Blow Out Thanks To Huge iPhone And iPad Sales
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Fortune, AllThingsD and Ars Technica
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft — Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, was indicted Tuesday in Boston on charges that he stole over four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.
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GigaOM, Ars Technica, @kn0thing, CNET News, Digital Media Wire, SmoothSpan Blog, The Register, Slacktory, Techland, @binarybits and @gentthaci
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Morgan Callahan / Demand Progress Blog:
Federal Government Indicts Former Demand Progress Executive Director For Downloading Too Many Journal Articles — Cambridge, MA - Moments ago, Aaron Swartz, former executive director and founder of Demand Progress, was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell …
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Network World, @mathewi, Wired Campus, @fmanjoo, TechPinions and The Escapist
Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Aaron Swartz indicted on charges of “wire fraud, computer fraud” etc.
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Techdirt, about.jstor.org, Threat Level, ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine and SC Magazine US
Jay Yarow / The Business Insider:
Some Of Apple's Board Started Looking For Steve Jobs' Replacement — Members of Apple's board started talking about CEO sucession plans with executive recruiters and “one head of a high-profile technology company” when Steve Jobs took his most recent leave of absence, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Directors Informally Exploring CEO Succession Possibilities, Jobs Calls Report ‘Hogwash’
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Punit Soni / Google+:
We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later.
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SlashGear, Computerworld, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, paidContent and The Business Insider
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google+ iPhone App Now Live In The App Store (Screenshots)
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Punit Soni, Digits, SiliconFilter, The Next Web, PC World, MacStories, InfoWorld, This is my next, The Blog Herald, Daring Fireball, App Advice, VatorNews, CNET News, msnbc.com, iPhone Hacks, Shoutpedia, TUAW, CNET News, Engadget, Lifehacker, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Techland, Digital Trends and Tracy and Matt's Blog
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Drop Out of Auction for Hulu Online Streaming Service — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is dropping out of the bidding for Hulu LLC, the online video service put up for sale by its media-company owners, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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Seattle Times, The Business Insider and The Next Web
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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Yahoo Would Buy Hulu For $2 Billion - But Only If It Came With Four Years Of Exclusive Rights — Yahoo would pay up to $2 billion to buy Web TV site Hulu from its current owners - Disney, News Corporation, Comcast, and private equity firm Providence Equity Partners - a source familiar with Yahoo's M&A plans tells us.
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Mark Milian / CNN:
Google+ has a ‘celebrity acquisition plan’ — (CNN) — Google would like its new social network to be well-known in Hollywood circles. To that end, the Internet giant is drawing up a “celebrity acquisition plan” to help publicize Google+, its 3-week-old social network, according to Google e-mails reviewed by CNN.
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
LinkedIn CEO: Does Anybody Have The Free Time For Google+?
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Computerworld, Mashable!, SlashGear, The Network Garden, Digital Trends and PC World
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Confirms: OS X Lion Coming Tomorrow — At the Q3 2011 earnings call, Apple just confirmed OS X Lion is launching tomorrow. The OS will be available on the Mac App Store at $29.99. OS X Lion is a major upgrade to Apple's desktop operating system which introduces over 250 new user features …
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AllThingsD, MacRumors, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Between the Lines Blog, The Next Web, eWeek, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Liliputing, ITworld.com, @gartenberg, @gruber, I4U News, MacNN and Geek.com
FBI:
Sixteen Individuals Arrested in the United States for Alleged Roles in Cyber Attacks … WASHINGTON—Fourteen individuals were arrested today by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal's website as part of an action claimed by the group “Anonymous …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo Revenues Down Again in Q2, With Weakness in Search and U.S. Display Ad Sales — Yahoo turned in another flat performance in the second quarter, with $1.08 billion in revenue, which was slightly below Wall Street expectations. — Earnings per share were right on target, though, at 18 cents each, an increase of 18 percent.
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Yahoo! Off 4% On Q2 Rev Miss; Q3 Rev View Weak
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The New Persuaders, Business Wire, Between the Lines Blog, @ldignan and Reuters
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google thinks it can be young and crazy again. And it is betting $200 million that it is right. — Caught up in the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade, the Silicon Valley behemoth …
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John Leyden / The Register:
LulzSec say they'll release big Murdoch email archive — Rebekah Brooks apparently not a password genius — The hacktivists behind a hack on The Sun's website claim to have extracted an email archive which they plan to release later on Tuesday. — News International systems were hacked …
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John Graham-Cumming, PC World, Telegraph, GigaOM and Guardian
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
How LulzSec hacked the Sun's website
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Gizmodo, TechNewsWorld and The Register
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover join ISIS mobile payment network — Four of the largest credit card issuers in the world — MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover — have all announced today that they're joining ISIS, a partnership of American carriers formed last year aimed …
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BetaNews, PC World, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, CNET News, SocialTimes.com, AllThingsD and BGR
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zillow Prices IPO At $20 Per Share, Now Valued At Nearly $540 Million — Real estate listings site Zillow has just priced its IPO at $20 per share, giving the company a $539 million valuation. Last week, the company upped the pricing of its IPO to $16 to $18 per share, from the initial range of $12 to $14 per share.
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The Business Insider, Associated Press, GigaOM, GeekWire, TechFlash, Zillow MediaRoom and PE Hub Blog
Patrick Avenell / Current:
Apple to open a new Store every 50 hours before end of 2011 harvest — Apple Retail Stores have attracted over one billion visitors since the first outlet was opened in Washington DC on 19 May 2001, according to a rare response to questions from Apple's local PR team.
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MacRumors, The Next Web and MacRumors
Richard Edmonds / WPCentral.com:
Breaking: New video of Nokia Sea Ray prototype running WP7 — Look at what we have here, leaking clearly out of a development factory in either China or Hong Kong (forgive us, it's 2am), we get a nice clear look at the Nokia N9, cough, ‘Sea Ray’ for Windows Phone 7.
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IntoMobile, Engadget, WinRumors, BGR, GottaBeMobile, iThinkDifferent and Digital Trends
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Gigwalk Signs Up Microsoft to Provide Thousands of Paid Tasks for iPhone-Carrying Part-Timers — Gigwalk, a service that offers a variety of paid odd jobs via iPhone, announced that it now has more than 100,000 “gigs” available or completed and has signed up more than 50,000 people to perform work in eight U.S. cities.
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Tech Check, LiveSide.net and VentureBeat
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
FTC Chief Says Consumers Should Own and Control Their Data on Social Networks — Q&A: Commission Watching Carefully as Deadline for Ad Industry Self-Regulation Looms — David Vladeck, head of The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection has been busier than usual.
