Apple earnings, Vine, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Apple earnings, Vine, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
2013-01-23
it's Wednesday January 23rd 2013
I'm Sam Scheffer and I've become one
with the vibrating point at the center
of space and time this is 90 seconds on
the verge presented by Ford it's Apple
earnings day they sold a lot of devices
the company posted 13 point 1 billion
dollars in profit for its latest quarter
on fifty four point five billion dollars
in revenue apple sold forty seven point
eight million iPhones over ten million
more than a year ago iPad sales also had
a record twenty two point nine million
record profit record revenue and record
sales and naturally the stock is down in
after-hours trading speaking of
Cupertino Steve Jobs didn't like
competitors hiring Apple employees even
threatened patent litigation if they
didn't knock at all new court documents
have revealed a number of communications
between Apple Google and other companies
in one email Steve Jobs told former palm
CEO at Colligan he would like the
company to stop going after Apple
employees my advice he wrote is to take
a look at our patent portfolio before
you make a final decision here subtle
did you love politicians accidentally
tweeting photos you haven't seen
anything yet Twitter CEO Dick Costolo
demonstrated a new video sharing feature
today from the looks of it it will let
users post short embedded video clips to
Twitter it's powered by vine a startup
that Twitter picked up last year now
let's cover this again the MS go to one
person regular tweets go to everyone we
clear and that's it for today's top
stories join us tomorrow and we'll be
taking a look at America's obsession
with lip synching is it time for an
intervention
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