Last week was a busy one with your favorite TUAW writers posting some excellent How-To guides, commentary and other informative news articles. Here's a quick roundup of our recent feature worthy posts you may have missed:

News

• Apple R&D spending reached record levels last quarter
• Microsoft Outlook now available for iOS
• AAPL share price hovering near all-time high
• Apple's last quarter profit the biggest in history for any corporation
• Apple destroys earnings estimates: Revenue of $74.6 billion on the back of 74.5 million in iPhone sales
• Apple Pay: Now at 200,000 more locations for self-serve payments
• Apple Pay interest high for retailers; PGA Tour to take it starting next week
• Fiksu report shows staggering App Store growth

Features

• Rumor Roundup: BREAKING - March and April not same month
• Now that YouTube has jumped to HTML5, here's what Steve Jobs said about Flash
• Google Play may have the downloads, but App Store has the money, honey
• Have you heard? The iPhone 6 is REALLY LOUD
• Alfred Remote is here and it's interesting
• Apple is as "boring" as it's always been
• The iPhone case that might get you killed
• Rumor Roundup: Features you can't explain to Grandma

TUAW will be back next week with another round of handy features and breaking news, so be sure to drop by to see what's new and what's useful.