"Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results: Services Revenue Grows 24% to All-Time Quarterly Record of $6.3 Billion/Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2016. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $46.9 billion and quarterly net income of $9 billion, or $1.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $51.5 billion and net income of $11.1 billion, or $1.96 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 38 percent compared to 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter's revenue." Apple 3:57 PM
"Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results" Business Wire 3:58 PM
"Apple Profit and Revenue Slide as it Copes With Slumping iPhone Sales: Full-year top and bottom lines decline for the first time since 2001, but the tech giant's forecast for current-quarter revenue is bullish" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:59 PM
"Apple's cash drops again to 'only' $231.2B" USA Today 4:02 PM
"Apple earns $46.9B in revenue on sales of 45.5M iPhones, edging market expectations" AppleInsider 4:02 PM
Apple News
"Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and why he still has his job at Apple" Business Insider 2:49 PM
"Apple Said to Develop Car Operating System in BlackBerry Country" Bloomberg 2:52 PM
"Apple is about to tell us if it expects to start growing again: The company is no doubt getting some boost from Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 woes, but will it be enough?" Recode 7:03 AM
"Apple's Billions May Not Be Enough to End Earnings Recession" WSJ Blogs 11:23 AM
"Can Tim Cook make Apple grow again?" CNBC Videos 7:12 AM
"Apple Earnings: What to Watch/Apple watchers will look for any hint of how the iPhone 7 has been received" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:13 AM
"Apple Boosted by IPhone 7 Demand, Slowing Pace of Sales Decline" Bloomberg 7:15 AM
"Apple Q4 Earnings All About the iPhone" Investopedia 7:13 AM
"Apple Earnings Smackdown: Final spreadsheet, Q4 2016" Apple 3.0 [Subscription Required for Full Article] 7:09 AM
"Apple Financial Results - Q4 2016: Join us here on October 25, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET to listen to the conference call live." Apple 11:13 AM
"How to merge iPhoto and Photo libraries on a Mac: A reader has enormous photo libraries, and wants to merge and trim them while archiving parts." Macworld 6:58 AM
"How many Mac users have figured out how to make Caps Lock useful?" Apple Must 6:50 AM
"Get the Most From Spotlight" Envato Tuts+ 7:09 AM
"Use Latitude and Longitude With Mac Maps" MacMost 7:58 AM
"The FCPX Tour@IBC Videos part 6: Sam Mestman (USA) and Rory Cantwell (UK) - FCPX to Resolve" fcp.co 7:09 AM
"How to Search Your Emails in Gmail Like a Pro" Envato Tuts+ 11:01 AM
"How to disable location suggestions in macOS Sierra" Cult of Mac 11:12 AM
"How to disable offensive content filtering for your Twitter news feed" iDownload Blog 7:04 AM
"New Security For Your Mac Notebook" Mac360 7:49 AM
Op/Ed
"Waiting on Final Cut Pro X 10.3: October 2016" FCPXtv 9:01 AM
Press Releases
"MacHTTP-js Preview for macOS Released: Full-featured Web Server for 21st Century Desktops and Servers" MacHTTP 11:36 AM
"Maintain Releases Cocktail 10.1 (Sierra Edition)." Maintain 8:12 AM
"Civilization VI comes to the Mac just three days after its PC release, available on Steam for $60" 9to5Mac 6:58 AM
"Suge Knight Sues Dr. Dre and Claims Dre Hired a Hitman to Kill Him" ["Suge says he had a lifetime management deal with Dre, which entitled him to a 30% cut of Dre's entertainment earnings. When Beats came along, Suge alleges Dre tried to cut him out, in part because Apple -- which bought Beats from Dre -- didn't want its brand associated with Suge."] TMZ 10:57 AM
"Suge Knight sues Dr. Dre for alleged attempted murder over Beats money" iDownload Blog 10:58 AM
"'Suge' Knight claims Dr. Dre hired hitman to avoid $300 million payment in Beats-Apple deal" CNBC 11:23 AM
"Apple Watch shipments plummet, dragging down wearable market: IDC data shows market slump, but new devices may reverse losses" V3 7:14 AM
"Smartwatch sales show sharp decline, report finds" BBC 7:03 AM
"Jony Ive and Marc Newson's latest collaboration is a Christmas tree: Apple friends and fellows partner once more" The Verge 7:27 PM
"Google Targets Apple's Margins with First Pixel Phone" Bloomberg 7:49 AM
"It looks like Apple Pay is already really big in Japan" Computerworld 9:49 AM
"Apple Pay goes live in Japan, one of the most advanced markets for mobile payment" 9to5Mac 6:58 AM
"Here's how wealthy you'd be if you bought Apple stock instead of the PowerBook 100" The Next Web 7:13 AM
"Apple's 'hello again' Mac launch on October 27 (live blog): CNET will be at Apple HQ in Cupertino, California, to cover the company's first major MacBook Pro update in four years." CNET 11:56 AM
"Today in Apple history: OS X Panther claws its way onto Macs" Cult of Mac 8:11 AM
Non-Apple News
"Now Galaxy S7 edge phones are exploding, but don't freak out just yet" BGR 8:45 PM
"Google Fiber CEO departs as business pauses new deployments" Seeking Alpha 7:04 PM
"AWS quietly launches tool for migrating on-premesis apps to the cloud: Server Migration Service automatically handles the replication of VMs into AWS" IDG News Service 5:20 PM
"Existing Home Routers Could Be Used to Stop DDoS Botnet Attacks" The Mac Observer 2:49 PM
"WiGig 802.11ad WiFi To Bring Faster 8Gbps Speeds To Smartphones And Other Devices Next Year" Redmond Pie 11:55 AM
"AT&T's 'radically' affordable DirecTV Now streaming TV service launches in November" TechHive 11:03 AM
"Sprint CEO Claure Says iPhone 7 Sales Still Strong" TheStreet 10:54 AM
"Steve Jobs' yacht designer created Xiaomi's insane new concept phone" Cult of Mac 11:12 AM
"Xiaomi just announced the iPhone 8 we're expecting next year" BGR 9:04 AM
"The 'Apple of China' is making a gorgeous new phone with an edge-to-edge screen" Business Insider 7:44 AM
"Chinese Firm Issues Webcam Recall After Massive Cyberattack" Time 7:10 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-10-25: iMessage Wish List, Original iPod Music Collection" The Mac Observer 12:07 PM
"The MacJury Deliberates on The Issue of Subscription Software" MacVoices 11:56 AM
"Let's Talk iOS 158: Thursday's Mac event predictions" iDownload Blog 7:04 AM
"Apple fixes bugs: One flaw let attackers grab iPhones with booby-trapped JPEG" ZDNet 7:13 AM
"iOS 10.1 arrives with Portrait Camera mode for iPhone 7 Plus and slew of security fixes: Owners of newest device now able to snap pro-quality portraits" V3 7:14 AM
"tvOS 10.0.1 Update Improves Security, Skips Single Sign-on" The Mac Observer 10:41 AM
Granted Apple Patents
"Apple invention uses ferrofluids to enhance induction charging performance" AppleInsider 6:59 AM
"Apple patents crowd-sourced lost-and-found electronic tag service" AppleInsider 6:59 AM
"Apple's wearable display patent involves, among other things, a shirt with a display" Apple World Today 7:58 AM
"Your Apple devices may someday recognize your face and unlock themselves" Apple World Today 8:13 AM
"Apple Granted 55 Patents Today Covering Wearable Displays, Inductive Charging, Face Recognition & More" Patently Apple 7:09 AM
"What to expect from Apple's 'Hello Again' event" Engadget 11:55 AM
"Comment: The Xiaomi Mi Mix shows just what could be possible with the iPhone 8 [Videos] 9to5Mac 11:12 AM
"What to Expect at Apple's 'Hello Again' Mac Event" MacRumors 11:55 AM
"Why Apple's big MacBook reveal will feel so damn boring" Mashable 11:12 AM
"iPhone 8 rumors: a reality check: Will the next iPhone be transparent and pop into a headset and put holograms on top of the real world? Color me skeptical." ZDNet 9:04 AM
"Feature Request: iOS Do Not Disturb feature should allow weekend schedules and more" 9to5Mac 9:01 AM
"Is The iPhone A Bomb In Your Pocket?" Mac360 8:13 AM
"The 20 CDs Steve Jobs Gave Journalists with the First iPod" The Mac Observer 7:49 AM
"Context for Microsoft and Apple's Events" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 7:14 AM
"AT&T Buying Time Warner Is Shot at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple: AT&T's stunning $85 billion deal to acquire Time Warner could set off countermoves from the country's biggest technology companies. Here's what's at stake." TheStreet 7:13 AM
"Microsoft's Wednesday Event Could See Surface Laptop, Paint 3D App Launches" NDTV Gadgets 7:26 AM
"Surface Phone, Windows 10, an All-In-One: What Microsoft might announce at its New York event: After Nadella's comments last night, we've changed our mind a bit" The Inquirer 7:47 AM
"Microsoft's iMac killer might be called Surface Studio" BGR 6:23 AM
"Microsoft: We Were Wrong to Consider the PC the Core of Everything/Satya Nadella gives public mea culpa in new interview" Softpedia 7:43 AM
"Microsoft's Nadella: 'We've screwed up on phones, we're all about VR now'/So that's probably a no to a Surface Phone tomorrow, then" The Inquirer 6:34 AM
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella implicitly blames Steve Ballmer for missing out on mobile: Fixation on the PC made Microsoft miss mobile until it was too late" Computing 9:44 AM
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'We are the company that stands for builders, makers and creators'" GeekWire 6:29 AM
"Microsoft CEO says mixed reality is the 'ultimate computer': The company's goal is to 'invent new computers and new computing.'" Engadget 6:29 AM
"Microsoft Stops Skype Support For 85 Percent Of Windows Smartphones" Tech Times 9:27 AM
"The future of Windows: We vet the rumors of what Microsoft may announce this week/A Surface all-in-one? OK, Microsoft, wow us." PCWorld 6:47 AM
"Uh-oh! Microsoft is planning a major price hike in the UK: Thanks, Brexit. " Digital Spy 9:49 AM
"Microsoft admits it WILL be raising prices in the UK: COMPUTING giant confirms price hikes across Britain following Brexit decision, with some services going up as much as 22 per cent." Express UK 9:45 AM
"Microsoft confirms New Year 22% price hike" Comms Dealer 9:04 AM
"Microsoft May Never Fix the High DPI Issues in Windows 10" Thurrott 4:19 PM
"Microsoft Warns of PLATINUM Hacker and Password Attacks" eWeek 5:04 PM
"Intel's superfast memory tech gets hit by a major delay" TechRadar UK 6:49 AM
"Intel Capital announces funding for 12 startups" bit-tech 6:49 AM
"Intel Capital invests $38n in tech startups" IT-Online 7:22 AM
"Intel Capital leads investment of over $30m in VR and robotics start-ups" SiliconRepublic 6:49 AM
"K4Connect lands $8M investment from Intel" WRAL TechWire 7:21 AM
"BitPay adds Intel's Security Extension to Secure its Copay Wallet" News BTC 7:22 AM
"Intel Branches Out To Smart Security Cameras" Seeking Alpha 6:14 AM
"Intel Attacks IoT with the Atom E3900 and A3900: Spoiling ARM's TechCon with aplomb..." SemiAccurate 3:35 PM
"Intel wants to make its IoT chips see, think, and act: The new, faster Atom E3900 series has more powerful graphics and image processing" IDG News Service 4:46 PM
"Intel, ARM Up Competition in IoT with New Chips, More Security" eWeek 1:43 PM
"HPE, PTC look to unlock data insights with industrial IoT tie-up" Computer Business Review 6:46 AM
"IBM's cloud move: New unified platform buries SoftLayer under Bluemix brand" ZDNet 7:21 AM
"IBM apologises for Australian e-census bungle, setting off blame game" Malay Mail Online 7:21 AM
"IBM geoblocking plan for Census was a failure: MacGibbon" ZDNet 6:32 AM
"GM's OnStar, IBM's Watson combine to market brands to drivers" Reuters 9:06 PM
"IBM is folding SoftLayer into its Bluemix cloud services portfolio: My brand is disappearing, IBM's SoftLayer object storage leader tells OpenStack conference" IDG News Service 1:47 PM
"Apple Says It Will Return to Revenue Growth in December Quarter" The Mac Observer 7:48 PM
"Apple's Big Expensive iPad push has kept iPad revenue flat, at least for now: iPad unit sales are down, but Apple is making the same amount of money from them" The Verge 6:27 PM
"Apple sales, profits fall again but a brighter outlook ahead: The company saw lower sales of its most important products, but a turnaround could be coming" IDG News Service 5:26 PM
"Notes of interest from Apple's Q4 2016 conference call" AppleInsider 5:04 PM
"Here Is Why to Love Apple Before Earnings Are Released: Apple is set to announce earnings Tuesday after the market closes. The stock is undervalued and ripe for the picking." TheStreet 10:42 AM
Industry News
"Earnings deluge; Apple of my eye; Twitter in focus" CNNMoney 6:50 AM
"Stocks Fall on Mix of Earnings, Wait for Apple: A mix of results coming out from all corners of the S&P 500 leads stocks to close lower on Tuesday." TheStreet 4:52 PM
"U.S. Consumer Confidence Dips in October" FOXBusiness 12:49 PM
"Market Close Report: NASDAQ Composite index closes at 5,283.40 down -26.43 points" Nasdaq 4:52 PM
"Stocks close in the red on mixed earnings" USA Today 4:52 PM
"Stocks Deepen Losses; GM Slides On Outlook; Home Improvement Industry Shaken" Investor's Business Daily 12:50 PM
"Stocks Fall on Mixed Earnings Reports: Consumer-discretionary shares lead declines in the S&P 500" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:52 PM
"Asian markets mixed after report of Korean economic slowdown" MarketWatch 6:53 AM
"European stocks gain as German business mood rises to 2.5-year high" MarketWatch 6:53 AM
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