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Apple:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results — Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever All-Time Record iPhone, iPad and Mac Sales — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Apple's Q1 2012: $46.3B In Revenue, 37M iPhones And 15.4M iPads Sold — We're still a few minutes out from Apple's Q1 2012 earnings call — but as is par for the course, the raw numbers have made their way out a bit early. And they.. are... insane. — Note: For those wondering …
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Digits, The Tech Trade, GigaOM, The Apple Core Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, IntoMobile, Electronista and WebProNews
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple reports record $13.06 billion profit — Apple on Tuesday reported a record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion. — According to its earnings report, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
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VentureBeat and Light Reading, Thanks:@jdalrymple
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had fighting words for Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd, calling the former Senator and current lobbyist out on his recent threats and pronouncing that the MPAA should fire its chief.
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BetaNews, The Next Web and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
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Jay A. Fernandez / Hollywood Reporter:
Sundance 2012: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a ‘Watershed Event’ — Speaking at the festival's daily Cinema Cafe series, Dodd said the tech community's ability to mobilize the public was a game-changing phenomenon that he hadn't seen in more than three decades in public office.
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Techdirt, VentureBeat, Computerworld and Deadline.com
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook Timeline Now Pushed To Everyone, Users Get A Week To Clean Up Profiles — You can run, but you can't hide. Facebook's biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, the Facebook Timeline, is now becoming mandatory for all users. According to the company, over the next few weeks, everyone will get the new Timeline.
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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don't Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else — Yesterday, I wrote that Google needs to come clean with its users: Either the company is meddling with search results (as all evidence suggests) or it is still committed to all the ideals it espoused when the company was going public.
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SiliconFilter, Business Insider, Nelson's Weblog, Forbes, Search Engine Watch, TechSpot and Wired.co.uk
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Yahoo! Inc.:
Yahoo! Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results — Fourth Quarter Operating Income Increases 10% Year over Year — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011.
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Between the Lines Blog, The New Persuaders and TechCrunch
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Q4 Limps In Close To Wall Street's Expectations — First look at Yahoo Q4 earnings: Earnings of $0.24 a share on revenues of $1.17 billion. Wall Street was looking for $0.23 and $1.19 billion. — For a look at what investors had been expecting, consult Kara Swisher's preview from last night.
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Tech Trader Daily and Social Markets
Gartner:
Gartner Says Apple Became the Top Semiconductor Customer in 2011 — Top 10 Original Equipment Manufacturers Represented $105.6 Billion of Semiconductor Demand, Accounting for 35 Percent of Total Semiconductor Chip Revenue in 2011 — Leading electronic equipment manufacturers remained …
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BGR, CNET, PC Magazine, Between the Lines Blog, MacRumors, PadGadget, AllThingsD, The Verge, PC World, Techie Buzz, SlashGear, Macgasm, Engadget, Softpedia News and GigaOM
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Ubuntu Wants to Replace Menus with a HUD — Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, has been experimenting with a number of interface designs lately. Today, the project's founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that the next major version of Ubuntu, 12.04 LTS, will feature a replacement for the menu bar.
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ReadWriteWeb, PC World, InfoWorld, Mark Shuttleworth, Inquirer, The Register and Geek.com
Boonsri Dickinson / Business Insider:
Famous iPhone Hacker George Hotz Has Left Facebook — After hacking into Sony's Playstation 3, George Hotz was hired by Facebook last June. — That gig didn't last long. He no longer works there. — So what is he doing in his free time? — Hacking.
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Friending Facebook Blog and Redmond Pie
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
RIM's roadmap for 2012/Q1 2013: Two BlackBerry 10 phones, two Curves, HSPA+ PlayBook — We've been gathering info on what exactly Research In Motion is planning to release over the next year and even into early 2013, and we now have a solid picture to share with you.
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The Tech Trade, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Neowin.net, Pocketables, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile and BerryReview.com
Vanguard News:
Obama to honor wife of late Apple visionary's, Jobs — WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama will honor the life of Steve Jobs by welcoming the late Apple visionary's wife Laurene Powell Jobs to his State of the Union address on Tuesday. — Powell Jobs will watch Obama's showpiece annual address …
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9to5Mac, AllThingsD, CBS News, The Next Web and MacNN
Jason Fried / Inc.com:
When It's Time to Start Over — Sometimes, the best way to improve something is to begin again from scratch. Even if it's your top-selling product. — In 2004, 37signals, the software company I co-founded, released a Web-based project-management and collaboration tool called Basecamp.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Dutch appeals court says Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn't infringe Apple's design right — Apple's enforcement of design-related rights against Samsung's Galaxy Tab range of tablet computers has suffered yet another setback, with the Gerechthof 's-Gravenhage (an appeals court in The Hague, Netherlands) …
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Washington Post, SlashGear, The Verge, Computerworld, Reuters, Engadget, London Calling Blog, CNET, WebProNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, BGR, VentureBeat, Android Community, Inquirer, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, GigaOM, TUAW, Liliputing, AllThingsD and Electronista, Thanks:@fosspatents
Ray Walters / ExtremeTech:
The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed “physibles” as the next frontier of piracy — While the subject of online piracy is certainly nothing new, the recent protests against SOPA and the federal raid on Megaupload have thrust the issue into mainstream media. More than ever, people are discussing …
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CNET, Digital Trends, Mashable!, Shapeways Blog, VentureBeat, MakerBot Industries, Fast Company, Gizmodo, The Pirate Bay, adafruit industries blog, SlashGear and Geekosystem
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Steve Jobs looked to reinvent Apple's iPhone photography with instant capture system, advanced light-field sensors — “He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography,” said biographer Walter Isaacson in an interview following the release of his biography on Steve Jobs.
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Digital Trends, The Verge, PC World, BGR, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, Pocket-lint, Pulse2, Electricpig.co.uk, MacNN, TUAW, Computerworld, SlashGear, Techland, Gizmodo UK and GeekWire
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
With powerful new apps, Producteev is the task management service of your dreams — If you're like me, you've tried and abandoned countless task management services. It's easy to make a half-hearted promise with yourself to organize your tasks, it's tougher to find a service that's flexible …
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GigaOM, Lifehacker, Gotta Be Mobile, SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Supporting sensors in Windows 8 … The first thing we explored about sensors was how Windows 8 should use them at the system level, to adapt the PC to the environment while preserving battery life. — Adaptive brightness — The first system feature was automatic display brightness control, or what we call “adaptive brightness.”
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Electronista, WinBeta, Neowin.net and Windows 8 Tablet Forum
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Mozilla releases Rust 0.1, the language that will eventually usurp Firefox's C++ — After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha — version 0.1 — of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes concurrency …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Highlight, a Social Network for the Real World — For all that Facebook does to help you organize your online relationships, it doesn't do much to help you interact with folks in the physical world. Every time you enter a restaurant, conference, or hotel lobby, you're surrounded by strangers …
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Mashable!
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference — Summary: Microsoft is doing away with its annual Mix designer/developer event. This year, instead, the company is planning a developer conference likely to focus on Windows 8. — The rumors were true: Microsoft is doing away …
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eWeek, BetaNews, Engadget, Business Insider, Ed Bott, Seattle Times, eWeek, Neowin.net, TechNet Blogs, Electronista, Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips and SlashGear
Mike Orcutt / Technology Review:
Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections — Researchers show how simple programs posing as real people can shape interactions on Twitter. — You might have encountered a “Twitter bot” before: an automated program that perhaps retweeted something you wrote because it had particular keywords.
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ReadWriteWeb
Thomas Houston / The Verge:
Vimeo redesign offers cleaner interface, bigger videos, Tumblr-like feed for browsing — Search is great when it comes to video, but how should a video service best show videos to users that they don't necessarily know they want to see? YouTube's recent redesign opted for a visually busy route …
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Vimeo Staff Blog, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Gizmodo UK
