Apple breaks record with 74.5 million iPhones sold in previous quarter, revenue of $74.6 billion

Apple's iPhone models have broken sales record for the company with 74.5 million units sold in the previous quarter. Apple's financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended December 27, 2014. Apple posted a record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion and record quarterly net profit of $18 billion, or $3.06 per diluted share which is the largest in its history.

Apple shattered expectations from analysts and Wall Street who were 'only' expecting sales of 65 million units sold for the iPhone.

Aside from strong iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sales, Mac sales have also surged for Apple. “We’d like to thank our customers for an incredible quarter, which saw demand for Apple products soar to an all-time high,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our revenue grew 30 percent over last year to $74.6 billion, and the execution by our teams to achieve these results was simply phenomenal.” 

Click to read more ...

Twitter introduces group messaging and video features to mobile apps

Rolling out bit by bit, Twitter is introducing more new features to its mobile apps. For Android and iOS, both will be getting a new Group Messages feature. This means you can converse privately with people in a chat room and you don’t have to be following someone to start or engage in a group conversation with them.

You’re also getting a new video camera feature that will let you capture, edit and upload 30 seconds of video within the app. You can also post the video into the Group or Direct Messages. iOS users will be able to upload clips from their camera roll, the feature will reportedly make its way to Android soon. These new features will be rolling out to new users in the coming days.

Source: MacRumors

Shazam adds Spotify to Android app

iOS users may have gotten the feature earlier but now Shazam users on Android can also use Spotify within their app. The music discovery app will now let you listen to full Spotify tracks in Shazam. Also, if you’ve “discovered” a song through the app, it’ll be added to a Spotify playlist for Shazam tracks. The update is rolling out to all users as we speak.

Source: SlashGear | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Pinterest to integrate ads in home feed

Looking to monetize more, Pinterest will now be showing ads on the home feed. Promoted Pins (a.k.a. ads) were previously only seen in search results and category feeds. Now, it will show up in the home feed for U.S. pinners. They can choose to hide the Promoted Pins if they don’t want to see them. But that is one additional step to take. There isn’t anything in the announcement yet if it’ll make its way here, but we won’t be surprised if it will.

Source: Pinterest