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Apple just posted up its third quarter earnings — its first full quarter selling the iPad — and, well, it’s raining cash in Cupertino. The company posted a record profit of $3.25b on record revenues of $15.7b, which is up from $1.83b and $9.73b from a year ago. The big stat? Apple sold 3.27 million iPads, nearly matching the 3.47 million Macs sold — and Mac sales were up 33 percent from a year ago to set a new quarterly record. Yeah, damn. iPhone sales — including the first few weeks of the iPhone 4 — were up 61 percent from a year ago to 8.4 million, and the iPod continued its slow decline, down eight percent to 9.41 million units sold. Over half of the Apple’s sales — 52 percent — were international, and Jobs is quoted saying “we have amazing new products still to come this year.” Not a bad way to head into back-to-school and the holidays, we suppose — we’ve got a feeling those iPad numbers are just going to go up. The conference call to discuss all this is at 5pm ET, we’ll be covering it live right here.

Update: The call is all done — the full liveblog is after the break. We didn’t learn too much apart from the fact that Apple’s selling every iPhone and iPad it can make (Tim Cook repeated this over and over), and that Apple’s setting aside $175 million in revenue to cover the free iPhone 4 cases. Of course, given that Apple added an additional $4.1 billion in cash to its warchest this quarter for a total of $45.8 billion, that’s pretty much pocket change, but there’s the number.

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written by pietro842 \\ tags: after-the-break, Apple, financialresults, holidays, ipad, Iphone, ipod, ipodtouch, Mac, peteroppenheimer, timcook

Despite the Chapter 11 bankruptcy, General Motors has soared from the ashes to acquire AmeriCredit Corp. for $3.5 billion in order to get back into the credit business. Of course GM’s survival might not have been possible without the $57.6 billion TARP program.

GM car dealers will then have more options to lease and finance car sales. GM is buying AmeriCredit Corp. in an all-cash transaction that is valued at $24.50 per share. AmeriCredit will fill the role that GMAC was once responsible for.

“Adding AmeriCredit to our team will improve our competitiveness in auto financing offerings, and I am very pleased to have them on board,” stated GM CEO Ed Whitacre.

GM has been working with AmeriCredit to set up auto loans for customers that have poor credit ratings. GM will also continue to work with Ally Financial (the former GMAC finance company) for providing loans to customers with good credit. GM is preparing to have an IPO later this year or next year. This transaction is expected to close by the end of the year.

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Google, Mac, OS

In an app store filled with extremely simplistic “high score” games, Rocket Downhill Penguin sits about the middle of the pack. It’s certainly no Doodle Jump, but it can’t be considered a bad game either. At the end of the day, it just sits right around non-memorable.

Rocket Downhill Penguin operates like most games in the genre. There is a single track that players attempt to maneuver their penguin down, gaining points the entire time. Instead of platforms and space creatures, the penguin must maneuver around pine trees and snowmen. There is a life bar along the bottom of the screen, so it’s not a one hit your out kind thing. Cups of coco, or coffee, or tea, some warm liquid, are scattered throughout the course replenishing health and warming the insides. There are even stars scattered less frequently that give extra lives for continued play, and high score achievement.

The game is easy on the eyes, even if it’s overly simplistic. The music is what you would expect from a game such as this, and the controls work just fine. It’s well executed, and does exactly what it’s intended to do. Depending on your skill level, this could be a great time, or a frustrating one. I don’t tend to do well with high score hunts, even going as far back as pinball machines, so I didn’t do so great. Overall it’s a nice time consumer when you need one.

[ Rocket Downhill Penguin Review is a post from 148Apps ]

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