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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple's Massive Numbers And Some Context — Simply looking over the numbers, it might be hard to wrap your head around what Apple just announced for their Q1 2012 results. A company this big is not supposed to be able to nearly double revenue year-to-year. Nor are they supposed to more than double profit.
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Between the Lines Blog, TechPinions, Macworld, PhoneArena, Electricpig.co.uk, Guardian, AppleInsider and The Next Web
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Tim Cook sends congratulatory email, plans to ‘discuss some exciting new things going on at Apple’ at Town Hall tomorrow — Following today's blowout numbers, we just received word that Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a short email to Apple employees congratulating them both on a record setting holiday quarter …
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Bloomberg:
Apple 'Didn't Bet High Enough' on China IPhone Demand, Cook Says — Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. underestimated the “staggering” demand for the iPhone 4S when it started sales in China this month, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said. — “We thought we were betting bold,” …
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CNET, Forbes, iPhone Buzz, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, iClarified, SlashGear and Electronista
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Why Apple TV is finally starting to matter — Hidden somewhere in Apple's earnings call is this little snippet: According to CEO Tim Cook, the company sold 1.4 million Apple TVs during the holiday quarter. That's notable because it's about half of the devices that Apple had sold in the entire year prior …
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AllThingsD and CNET
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Tim Cook on His First Four Months as Apple CEO: Just Look at the Results
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9to5Mac
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
More on Apple's Anobit acquisition: Team remains in Israel (for now), headed by notable chip VP
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The Next Web and Electronista
Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple's Growth Rate Is Simply Incredible... And It's Accelerating
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SplatF
Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps:
Apple has paid $4 billion to developers over lifetime of its app store
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Gotta Be Mobile
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo:
Apple's profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google's entire revenue ($10.6 billion).
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The Next Web, AllThingsD, CNNMoney.com, Gadget Lab, mocoNews, Macworld and ReadWriteWeb
Alma Whitten / The Official Google Blog:
Updating our privacy policies and terms of service — In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what's changing, why and what these changes mean for users. — First, our privacy policies.
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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Google's New Terms Of Service & Privacy Policy: Anything You Do May Be Used To Target You?
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The TechBlock, Forbes, Macworld, Google, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out
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Fast Company, Marketing Pilgrim, PC Magazine, Guardian and PC Pro
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
UK mobile operator O2 sends your phone number to every website you visit — O2 may also be unwittingly assisting spammers, allowing them to match email addresses with phone numbers. See below for more updates. — If you reside in the UK and you are one of the millions of subscribers …
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O2 Blog:
O2 mobile numbers and web browsing — Security is of the utmost importance to us and we take the protection of our customers' data extremely seriously. — We have seen the report published this morning suggesting the potential for disclosure of customers' mobile phone numbers to website owners.
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The Next Web and SlashGear
Scott Lowe / IGN:
Xbox 720 Will Be Six Times as Powerful as Current Gen — Sources confirm fall 2013 release, detail graphics processing power. — The next Xbox will ship to retailers in late October or early November of next year with six times the processing power of the Xbox 360, sources close to the project have told IGN.
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Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, The Verge, Gizmodo UK, The Tech Report, Neowin.net, CNET, Electricpig.co.uk, Electronista, VG247 and The Escapist
Somini Sengupta / Bits:
Facebook's Sandberg Gently Warns Europe About Privacy Rules — Concerned about privacy? Maybe you should be concernedabout the economy instead. That was the subtext of a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, at a technology conference in the heart of Europe on Tuesday.
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EU Commission Justice, PC World, Washington Post, FM Blog and eWeek
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Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Companies Face Fines as Much as 2% of Sales Under EU Privacy Law
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Steve Hakusa / Official google.org Blog:
Public Alerts now on Google Maps — Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you're searching for them. — If a major weather event is headed for your area …
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Search Engine Land, The Next Web and Lifehacker
Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:
Samsung: We'll Douse Kindle Fire With More Features, Pen, TV Integration — When it comes to Android tablets, Samsung is the anti-Amazon. While the Kindle Fire comes in just one size, Samsung has released everything from the superthin Galaxy Tab 10.1 to the Galaxy Tab 7 Plus with a built-in remote control.
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Electronista, TechCrunch, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, SlashGear and Android Community, Thanks:@mspoonauer
Matt Mullenweg:
On the Evolution of Investing — Today Y Combinator announced they are adding two new partners, Garry Tan and Aaron Iba. This announcement is unique because it does not list their academic credentials, their previous investments, the boards of companies or non-profits they have sat on …
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Adventures in Capitalism
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions — PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Wearing leg irons and guarded by federal agents, David Whitaker posed as an agent for online drug dealers in dozens of recorded phone calls and email exchanges with Google sales executives, spending $200,000 …
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PC World and Search Engine Land
Reuters:
Megaupload founder faces lengthy extradition battle — (Reuters) - Efforts by the United States to extradite the mastermind of an alleged Internet piracy scheme from New Zealand to face copyright infringement and money laundering charges are likely to be long and complex.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
“We're just like YouTube,” Megaupload lawyer tells Ars
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Fast Company and The Verge
Paul Morris / Redmond Pie:
Jailbreaking May Soon Become Illegal Again, Act Now To Help Keep It Legal — It was in July 2010, the United States government ruled that the jailbreaking and unlocking of Apple iPhones, as well as the rooting of Android devices was to be deemed a legal act, as long as the process …
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ReadWriteWeb, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Shoutpedia, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified, Thanks:@uzairghani
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Obama: America Should Support The Next Steve Jobs — In his compelling State of the Union address tonight, President Obama laid out a blueprint for economic recovery, with numerous references to the technology sector. “An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
The State of the Union Gets Live-Tweeted
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ZDNet, The Next Web, Twitter Blog and IBD Click
Bloomberg:
Facebook Trades to Be Halted for Three Days — Shareholders of Facebook Inc., the Internet site preparing an initial public offering, are facing a three-day suspension of trading on secondary markets this week, people with knowledge of the matter said. — While buy and sell orders can be made …
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