Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

37.4 Million iPhones Sold; 19.5 Million iPads Sold

CUPERTINO, California—April 23, 2013—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $39.2 billion and net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37.5 percent compared to 47.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The Company sold 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter, compared to 35.1 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 19.5 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 11.8 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold just under 4 million Macs, compared to 4 million in the year-ago quarter.

“We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”

“Our cash generation remains very strong, with $12.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the quarter and an ending cash balance of $145 billion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.

Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2013 third quarter:

• revenue between $33.5 billion and $35.5 billion
• gross margin between 36 percent and 37 percent
• operating expenses between $3.85 billion and $3.95 billion
• other income/(expense) of $300 million
• tax rate of 26%

Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2013 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 23, 2013 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq213. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.

This press release contains forward-looking statements including without limitation those about the Company’s estimated revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, other income/(expense), and tax rate. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ. Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company’s reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company’s products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and/or increases in component costs could have on the Company’s gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company’s need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company’s business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company’s dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company’s international operations; the Company’s reliance on third-party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company’s dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company’s products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company’s sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings. More information on potential factors that could affect the Company’s financial results is included from time to time in the “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of the Company’s public reports filed with the SEC, including the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2012, its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 29, 2012, and its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 30, 2013 to be filed with the SEC. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information, which speak as of their respective dates.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 10 in San Francisco

Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

CUPERTINO, California—April 24, 2013—Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 10 through June 14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At the five-day conference, developers from around the world will learn about the future of iOS and OS X®, enabling them to create incredible new apps with innovative features. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by over 1,000 Apple engineers, hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies, as well as the popular Apple Design Awards, a showcase of the most outstanding apps available through the App Store℠ and Mac® App Store. Tickets for this year’s WWDC go on sale Thursday, April 25 at 10 a.m. PDT.

“We look forward to gathering at WWDC 2013 with the incredible community of iOS and OS X developers,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Our developers have had the most prolific and profitable year ever, and we’re excited to show them the latest advances in software technologies and developer tools to help them create innovative new apps. We can’t wait to get new versions of iOS and OS X into their hands at WWDC.”

WWDC 2013 activities include:

• More than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers on a wide range of topics for developing, deploying and integrating the latest iOS and OS X technologies;
• more than 1,000 Apple engineers supporting over 100 hands-on labs and events to provide developers with code-level assistance, insight into optimal development techniques and guidance on how they can make the most of iOS and OS X technologies in their apps;
• the latest innovations, features and capabilities of iOS and OS X, and how to enhance an app's functionality, performance, quality and design;
• the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow iOS and OS X developers from around the world—last year more than 60 countries were represented;
• engaging and inspirational lunchtime sessions with leading minds and influencers from the worlds of technology, science and entertainment; and
• Apple Design Awards which recognize iPhone®, iPad® and Mac apps that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation and outstanding design.

To purchase tickets, get updates and more information, developers can go to the WWDC website (developer.apple.com/wwdc).

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

The Bright Future of Machine Learning

Unlocking the future—that was the theme Rick Rashid, Microsoft chief research officer, used to close his opening remarks April 23 during the first day of the Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit 2013.

The event, held at Microsoft’s Le Campus site in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, just outside of Paris, gathered thought leaders and researchers from a broad range of computing-related disciplines to focus on key challenges in a new era of machine learning and to identify what will be necessary to take advantage of the information resources of today and tomorrow to enhance society at large.

Co-chair Evelyne Viegas of Microsoft Research Connections opened the summit with a few introductory remarks before introducing Alain Crozier, president of Microsoft France, who welcomed the approximately 250 attendees to the event. Viegas then took the opportunity to bring Rashid to the stage for his introductory remarks.

“This topic of machine learning has become incredibly exciting over the last 10 years,” he said. “The pace of change has been really dramatic, so it’s exciting to get so many people from so many different areas to be here today to talk about it.”

Rashid recalled a time in the not-so-recent past when machine learning was in its nascent stage, using rules and pattern recognition to produce results many found less than stellar. But today, he stated, a combination of data, devices, and services has led to newfound respect for the discipline, which is having an increasingly dramatic impact on business and society.

Rashid discussed advances in deep neural networks that have demonstrated dramatic improvements in speech-to-speech translation, tracing a path from speech recognition to machine translation to personalized speech synthesis. He shared with the audience a video of his rapturously received talk in Beijing in October in which his remarks in English were transformed into Mandarin, in his own voice, before a delighted group of Chinese academics.

“I think what’s interesting,” Rashid concluded, “both about this demonstration, but also about the changes that are now happening in this field of machine learning, especially as we bring new techniques like these deep neural networks, is the sudden optimism that for some of the great problems of computer science … now, we may actually be beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, that we may see, not just in our lifetime but maybe in not very many years, many of those critical problems be solved.”

With that, Christopher Bishop, a Microsoft distinguished scientist based at Microsoft Research Cambridge and the other summit co-chair, summoned Andrew Blake, laboratory director at that facility, to discuss computer vision in a keynote talk called Machines That (Learn to) See that will be streamed live, beginning at 1330 GMT.

“In studying computer vision,” Blake said, “we have an immense, privileged view of the study of intelligence. There are many scientists trying to study intelligence from different points of view. Some of them have set themselves the task of understanding in detail what is the neural circuitry of the brain. Accepting those constraints of a fully biological explanation of intelligence is a tremendously heavy burden.

“What we have in computational studies is the opportunity to do this from a completely different perspective, where we study intelligence, in some sense, in an abstract viewpoint, unburdened by some of the details.”

Blake went on to describe the two modern-day styles of computer-vision research, that of empirical detectors and that of analysis by synthesis. He left little doubt that he was particularly captivated by the latter, mentioning advances in the development of the Kinect human pose-estimation pipeline and the Photosynth system of amassing 3-D image reconstruction from a collection of photos of the same subject.

He pointed toward a future, though, where the two styles would be fused to produce even more advances, suggesting that data-driven sampling might be one promising step forward.

“While we think of the problems and how to solve them in the most systematic way,” Blake concluded, “there are so many things in vision now that really work, whether it’s commodity cameras, commodity software, medical imaging, cars that drive themselves, and new user interfaces. It’s a wonderful achievement that vision has become so mature.”

Conceptions for Valentine's Day

•  Buy him/her a Gift

Find the perfect Valentine,s day Gift for him/her. if you are not good in selection of Gifts for that special persons. observer him/her personality and find out what him/her likes the most.
most probably valentine,s day couples buy Chocolates, Jewelry, Watches, Flowers, Clothes, Cosmetics/Perfumes for their loved ones.
you can checkout above links, they are pretty cool. hope you may like them.

• Go For a Romantic Vocation

 Take him/her to the place where you like to be with him/her if they enjoy with you being there, then you will be definitely enjoy this day together and this will also increase the affection and deeper the relationships between you both

 

 

• Watch a Concert, Sports, Theater or any other Events

Look for the upcoming events of different singers and award distribution ceremony, gatherings, arrange reunions with your old high school friends, parties. although Valentine's Day come with many events like these. you both can arrange your own event at home as well :D oh! well forget about it i was just kidding. but honestly you can go out for cinema and there and many concerts conducted by different singers on such day. so go out and have fun with your love one's

 

 

• Plan a Romantic Candle Light Dinner (WOW)

Isn't it looks so cool ? when you and your love one's have a wonderful Candle light dinner. this would be the most romantic situation when you and him/her having dinner at beach under blue sky in candles light. with a glass of wine. these moments increase your love and affection to each other. 

so if you like my Valentine celebration ideas please leave the comments below.

 

 

Saint Valentine's Day, commonly known as Valentine's Day, or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries all around the world, although it remains a working day in most of Countries and it is the second most celebrated holiday all around the world.

Kate Middleton pregnant: Duchess of Cambridge expecting with husband Prince William, palace confirms - and it may be twins

Kate Middleton sparked pregnancy rumors when she covered her midsection at a gala dinner in London on Nov. 8.

 

The future king and his beautiful bride surprised Queen Elizabeth and her subjects Monday with the news that the couple is expecting an heir to the British throne.
Prince William and his wife Kate had to spill the beans that she was preggers after Kate became violently ill at her family’s home and William took her to a London hospital.