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About an hour ago Apple has published a report on its earnings for the third quarter of 2011 fiscal year.

The company announced that earnings from the platform iOS continues to grow. In the third quarter was 20.34 million sold iPhone, which is 142% more than the same period a year ago. Just in the last quarter sold 9.25 million iPad, which is 183% more than last year. If you take products with Mac OS X, in the third quarter Apple was able to realize all the 3.95 million Mac – a 14% increase over the same period last year. As expected, iPod sales continue to decline for the third quarter of them have been sold 7.54 million, representing a decrease of 20% compared to last year.

Overall, in the third quarter of the company’s turnover reached $ 28.57 billion and net quarterly profit of $ 7.31 billion in comparison, for the same period last year, the company’s turnover was $ 15.70 billion Earnings per share increased to $ 7, 79, compared with $ 3.51 last year.

“We are thrilled that this is one of the best of our neighborhoods. Our revenue was 82%, while profit rose to 125%,” said Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), CEO Apple. “At the moment we are focused on the upcoming iOS 5 and iCloud, which will be released for our customers this fall.”

“We are very pleased with our work, which helped to increase cash flow from operations of 131% over the same period last year,” said Peter Oppenheimer (Peter Oppenheimer), CFO of Apple. “Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $ 25 billion and earnings per share of approximately $ 5.50.”

In addition, in his opening remarks, Peter Oppenheimer confirmed that the OS X Lion appears in the Mac App Store on July 20.

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The application for the iPhone Google + , which appeared in the App Store than days ago, took first place in the top free applications online store Apple. The program allows you to access the service using Google + c native app for the iPhone, but only if you already have an invitation into the social network. Google + still does not work with firmware iOS 5 and if you have one of the beta versions of the fifth flash , you can only use the mobile web version.

After the release of Google + for iPhone, Google said that was initially released the wrong version of the application, in which some users have reported bugs. To correct this problem, Google offers to remove and reinstall the program from the App Store with a version 1.0.1.1809.

Less than 24 hours before Google + hit on the first line of stamp free apps in App Store. Prior to that, this success has been achieved only Facebook client for the iPhone. There are currently recording a new social network from the Internet industry giant, closed and by invitation only. Nevertheless, Google + already has 18 million users. The only question is whether this project will receive global recognition or curiosity is a temporary user and he shines the fate of Google Wave.

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