"Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results: iPhone Sales Grow 26% to Establish New September Quarter Record/Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $37.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $7.5 billion, or $8.26 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $36 billion and net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37 percent compared to 40 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter's revenue." Apple 3:44 PM
"Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results" ["The Company sold 33.8 million iPhones, a record for the September quarter, compared to 26.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 14.1 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 14 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.6 million Macs, compared to 4.9 million in the year-ago quarter."] Business Wire 3:44 PM
"Apple Shows Its Mettle Ahead of Holiday Season: Apple Inc. reported a third consecutive quarter of declining profits, but showed signs that both prices and profit margins are stabilizing despite heightened competition for its iPhone and iPad." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:14 PM
"Apple's Q4 '13 Beats With $37.5B Revenue, Misses With $7.5B Profit And $8.26 EPS On Strong iPhone Sales" TechCrunch 3:46 PM
"Apple's iPhone Sales Jump But Profit Falls: Apple Inc. sold 33.8 million iPhones in the September quarter, up 26% from a year earlier, but not enough to prevent a third consecutive quarterly decline in earnings." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:51 PM
"Apple's Rebound Quarter In Charts" TechCrunch 6:55 PM
"Apple Made 15 Strategic Acquisitions In Fiscal '13, Leaving 7 Undiscovered" TechCrunch 6:56 PM
"Apple Sold 33.8 Million iPhones, 14.1 Million iPads, And 4.6 Million Macs In Q4 2013" TechCrunch 3:46 PM
"Apple's profit concerns linger: Narrowing profit margins continue to take a bite out of Apple." CNNMoney 6:50 PM
"Apple sold 33.8m iPhones and 14.1m iPads in Q4 2013, up 25.7% and up 0.7% year-over-year respectively" The Next Web 6:58 PM
"Apple Profit Falls Despite Strong iPhone Sales" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6:55 PM
"Apple sells 33.8 million iPhones in quarter, in line with Street" Reuters 3:46 PM
"Free software will result in $900 million deferral at Apple: Company says that offering iLife, iWork, and Mavericks for free to customers will come at near-term cost in margins." CNET News 6:50 PM
"Why Apple is set to hit record numbers. Again." iMore 8:19 PM
"Apple Earnings: iPhone Sales Leap Forward, But Company Stuck Standing Still" Forbes 6:51 PM
"Apple's Tim Cook: iPhone 5C isn't our budget phone/CEO says Apple never meant it to be a cheap phone, despite initial buzz." CNET News 6:50 PM
"Apple 'Never' Envisioned iPhone 5c as Low-Cost Option" PC Magazine 6:51 PM
Apple News
"Apple Should Spend Its Money on Its Future: Carl Icahn Is Wrong to Seek a Stock Buyback" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:56 AM
"All eyes on Apple Inc.: Wall Street is looking for proof that Apple knows what it's doing." Fortune 8:54 AM
"Apple Q4 preview: All eyes on the iPhone gravy train" ZDNet 8:58 AM
"Apple's iPhone sales, holiday quarter up for scrutiny" Reuters 8:58 AM
"Apple Earnings May Disappoint Everybody Today: Apple's growth rate has been slowing lately..." Time 9:11 AM
"Apple to reveal iPhone 5S and 5C sales breakdown as profit slump expected" V3 10:24 AM
"Apple's Fourth Quarter: Dueling iPhones and the China Question" AllThingsD 8:54 AM
"Apple Financial Results - Q4 2013: Listen to streaming audio from the conference call." [2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET] Apple Events 9:09 AM
"Plaudits To Carl Icahn For Reigniting Apple's Weary Stock" Forbes 8:43 AM
"Icahn shares his side of the story: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on his letter to Apple proposing a $150B buyback and using social media to promote his ideas." [Video Report] FOXBusiness 1:23 PM
"Australian federal judge losing patience with Samsung over Patentgate affair: In California, Samsung has a deadline today for delivering to the court copies of all English-language documents that will be reviewed in camera in connection with the 'Patentgate' scandal of improperly-disclosed terms of Apple's highly confidential patent license agreements with Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp, and Philips." Foss Patents 9:29 AM
"5 reasons Angela Ahrendts is right for Apple retail" Computerworld 8:38 AM
"Mavericks memory compression review: Compressed memory is the only major storage feature in OS 10.9 Mavericks. Here's what it is and how well it works." ZDNet 10:06 AM
"Apple iPhoto '11 Version 9.5 (for Mac)" PC Magazine 10:24 AM
"Parallels 9 and Fusion 6 run neck and neck in virtualization contest" Macworld 9:30 AM
"Intensify is a powerful image editor for Mac OS" TUAW 10:25 AM
"How to Use the Activity Monitor Energy Tab in OS X Mavericks" TekRevue 8:37 AM
"How to Show the User Library Folder in OS X Mavericks" OS X Daily 8:22 PM
"System Preferences in OS X 10.9, Mavericks: Dictation & Speech" eXtensions 9:13 AM
"Apple sweetens suite of apps: Innovator once again bests the competition" Boston Herald 8:54 AM
"The Complete Guide to iCloud Keychain" Mactuts+ 9:22 AM
"AppleScript, Automator, and Automation Improvements in Mavericks" MacStories 8:12 AM
"Mavericks Makes It Way Easier To Access Your Library Folder [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 9:19 AM
"OS X 10.9 Mavericks: Easily Get Copies of Books Stored in iBooks App" Kirkville 9:29 AM
"Have Some Fun with OS X Mavericks's New In-Line Special Characters Menu" The Mac Observer 8:40 AM
"Mavericks - Adding apps to the Finder Toolbar" Mac OS X Hints 9:23 AM
Op/Ed
"OS wars 2013: How the latest Mac and Windows upgrades compare/After reviewing Mac OS X Mavericks last week and with the release of Windows 8.1 the week before, I figured it's time to take another look at how operating systems are evolving: for better or worse." CNET Reviews 9:00 PM
"Anger at Apple's Free iWork suite: Change is good" Computerworld 3:35 PM
"iOS 7 Devices Left To Envy OS X Mavericks Features" Apple'n'Apps 1:25 PM
"Apple Struggles with Free App Upgrade Policies" The Tech Night Owl 9:03 AM
"Keynote 6 retains hyperlinks, but they're buried treasure – further thoughts on Apple's management of iWork (and a quote from Klaatu)." Les Posen's Presentation Magic 8:31 AM
Press Releases
"Next Version of iStopMotion to Support Canon DSLR Live View – Beta Test Now Open" Boinx Software 8:02 PM
"Tim Cook: Free Mac Software is 'What it Means to Own a Mac'" The Mac Observer 6:52 PM
"Cook tells employees Apple 'has never been stronger,' plans to address company tomorrow" 9 to 5 Mac 6:56 PM
"Apple CEO: We've locked up 94% of education tablet market/Tim Cook calls the company's share in the education arena unheard of in most businesses." CNET News 6:58 PM
"Numbers from Apple's Q4 earnings call: 15 acquisitions, 94% of tablets in education, 30 new stores in 2014" 9 to 5 Mac 6:59 PM
"Parents Seem Pretty Chill About Letting iPads Raise Their Kids" BetaBeat 9:45 AM
Non-Apple News
"Smartphone sales pass 250M in Q3, and Samsung's grew twice as fast as Apple's" VentureBeat 6:53 PM
"Samsung tops Apple for global smartphone shipments: Reaching record highs, a total of 250 million smartphones are shipped worldwide in the third quarter: and Samsung carried a whopping 35 percent of this marketshare." CNET News 6:51 PM
"Kids Love Snapchat Because They See Facebook Like Adults See LinkedIn" TechCrunch 12:28 PM
"Samsung Seeks Patent for Smart Transparent Displays" Patent Bolt 10:32 AM
"Google Invents a New Way of Creating a Wall Size Display" Patent Bolt 10:32 AM
"Google Seeks Patent for Functional Carrying Case for 'Glass" Patent Bolt 10:32 AM
"Just How Bad Is Your Internet Connection? What you think of as broadband is actually not that fast, as far as Internet speeds go." ReadWrite 10:24 AM
"An 'iPad Christmas'? Maybe not if you want an iPad Mini with Retina Display: Apple CEO Tim Cook alludes to possible inventory issues with the newly announced iPad Mini with Retina Display during an earnings call." CNET News 6:50 PM
"Tim Cook: 'I Think It's Going to Be an iPad Christmas" The Mac Observer 6:52 PM
"Mac sales falling, but falling less than PCs" iMore 6:58 PM
"Cook on 64-bit A7 chip: 'Front end of a long roadmap'" MacNN 8:14 PM
"'Device 6' Review - An Interactive Story Unlike Any You've Ever Experienced" Touch Arcade 6:57 PM
"Air Display 2 Review: Avatron's second attempt to provide a solution to wireless monitor extension is all-but flawless in its overall execution, while also arriving practically indispensable in its end results." 148Apps 9:21 AM
"Dead Trigger 2 Review: Surviving the sophomore slump, Dead Trigger 2 aims at being the mobile equivalent of games we've seen on consoles." 148Apps 9:23 AM
"Kill All Zombies! Review: Apart from some slight control and speed issues, Kill All Zombies! is a colorful, cute, and addictive zombie kill-a-thon." 148Apps 10:24 AM
"Love and Dragons HD Review: A hidden object game of fantasy, mystery, and magic, Love and Dragons is a visual marvel but may only be of interest to fans of the genre." 148Apps 11:12 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to avoid big international iPhone data charges" Macworld 9:29 AM
"Table Views in iOS 7 for iPhone: In this blog, we'll take a new look at table views using Xcode 5 and iOS 7. This new version of iOS is the first to assume that we will be using storyboards rather than nib files, so if you've been waiting to adopt storyboards, now's the time." The iPhone Developer Resource 9:21 AM
"I've decided to get an iPad Air" iDownload Blog 8:58 PM
"Cassandra: Apple Fourth Quarter 2013 Financial Results" eXtensions 8:57 PM
"Mysterious Mac Pro Posters Appear" TidBITS 6:59 PM
"Apple: The Juggernaut Isn't What It Used to Be/As Apple matures, its growth is slowing and its profitability is declining. Still the sales numbers are still massive" Time 6:57 PM
"Apple may be unable to cope with Retina iPad mini demand, says Cook" iDownload Blog 6:56 PM
"Hello, Standardization: 2/3 of iOS Devices Already Run iOS 7" The Mac Observer 6:52 PM
"Putting all your faith in 'the cloud'? Think again" AppleDailyReport 8:40 AM
Non-Apple
"Microsoft: Our tablet competitors are playing catch up/Says it got it right from the start" TechRadar UK 3:57 PM
"Speeding Up Gmail Delivery: Q. My Gmail on Firefox has gotten really slow lately and sometimes I can't see attachments. I don't think it's my network connection and I still have plenty of space left in my mailbox, so what might be causing the pokiness?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 12:52 PM
"Why Hasn't The Tech Industry Disrupted The Textbook Industry Yet?" Quora 10:43 AM
"Too good to be true? Airo wristband says it tracks calories consumed, not just burned" GigaOM 9:46 AM
"Why Are JavaScript Attacks So Dangerous?" Gizmodo 8:42 AM
"Microsoft's Bing gets its iOS 7 revamp and flat icon" iDownload Blog 8:27 PM
"Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon iPhone" The Mac Observer 3:34 PM
"Rocketcases Launches Most Durable & Beautiful Wood Cases For Iphone 5S & 5 – Woody Hybrid--Combines Strength of Wood with Shock Absorption of Rubber Sides--Rugged Cases Protect iPhone 5s, 5, 4s, & 4 from Falls & Scratches--Styled to the Max" Thomas PR 2:04 PM
"Apple earnings will put iPhone and Mac sales in the spotlight" GeekWire 11:13 AM
"Apple Q4 Earnings Preview: What to Expect" Mashable 9:46 AM
"Apple results: 10 things to look out for" Telegraph 9:11 AM
"Morning Links: What to Watch For in Apple's Earnings" WSJ Blogs 8:58 AM
"Liveblog: Apple's Q4 2013 earnings call happens today at 5pm Eastern" Ars Technica 10:43 AM
"TMO's AAPL 2013 Q4 Earnings Report Coverage Today" The Mac Observer 8:39 AM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Facebook, Microsoft weigh on tech; Apple volatile/Technology stocks were mostly lower Monday, weighed down by declining shares of Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp." MarketWatch 8:23 PM
"Surprise! S&P hits record high. Again." CNNMoney 12:42 PM
"Stocks Cautious on Eve of Fed Meeting as Apple Reports" TheStreet 3:51 PM
"S&P 500 notches small gain to log another record" Associated Press 8:24 PM
"S&P Eyes A Fresh Record Closing High" FOXBusiness 3:51 PM
"Stocks Finish Little Changed: S&P 500 Sets Another High; Merck Sinks" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:51 PM
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks bounce back from recent declines/Asian stocks moved higher on Monday, with Australia hitting a fresh-five year high, as shares bounced back from recent falls." MarketWatch 1:22 PM
"Europe Markets: Car makers weigh on Europe stocks after downgrade/After a string of three weekly gains, European stock markets pulled lower on Monday, with car makers posting some of the biggest losses after a broker downgrade and investors staying cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve policy meeting later in the week." MarketWatch 1:22 PM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 8:24 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 8:24 PM
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