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April 4, 2013, 6:25 PM

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Facebook Newsroom:
Introducing Home  —  Today we're introducing Home - a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone.  We all want to share and connect.  That's how we discover new information and build meaningful relationships.  But today, phones are built around tasks and apps.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
HTC and Facebook announce the First smartphone with AT&T, arriving April 12th for $99.99  —  HTC and Facebook have just announced the First, a new smartphone that puts Facebook front and center and runs on AT&T's network.  Despite its name, the First isn't the first device that Facebook …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about ‘people, not apps’  —  Facebook's throwing its hat in the Android ring in a big, big way.  Today at an event at the company's campus in California, Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Home, a deep software integration with Android that puts Facebook services front and center.
CNET:
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance  —  Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant.  —  Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service …
Peter Burrows / Businessweek:
Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare  —  At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL).  Scarecrow thin but forceful as ever …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPad price cuts: A signal Apple is about to release new ones  —  WalMart, BestBuy and MacMall have all lowered their prices on iPads and iPad minis.  —  FORTUNE — It's only been 163 days since Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad mini and updated its full-size iPad line …
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Verizon CEO says he's open to dropping contracts  —  CEO Lowell McAdams says the company could easily shift to the model if consumers begin demanding it.  —  Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam cracked open the door to a full no-contract wireless world.  —  McAdam said it was “pretty easy” …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later  —  The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company's founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers in 1981.  Fast forward 32 years, and check out the picture below …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lane Stepping Down  —  Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lane is stepping down from the chairmanship of the company.  Director Ralph Whitworth will be taking over as Chairman while the company seeks to find a permanent replacement.  Lane will remain on the board.
Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Google Fights U.S. National Security Probe Data Demand  —  Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's largest search engine, is challenging a demand by the U.S. government for private user information in a national security probe, according to a court filing.
Bloomberg:
France Telecom CEO Says Frugal Buyers Threaten IPhone Sales  —  France Telecom SA (FTE) Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard, head of one of Europe's largest wireless carriers, said the increasing frugality of customers is threatening sales of pricey phones such as Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Anonymous takes control of North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites  —  North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous's latest efforts to disrupt the communist county's online presence.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
comScore: Apple increases lead as top US smartphone maker, Samsung gains; Android down second month in a row  —  In the US, Apple started 2013 as the top OEM and it has only further increased its lead in February.  Samsung is gaining as well, but not quite as quickly.
AppleInsider:
Apple adds age rating tags to iOS App Store descriptions  —  In a slight tweak to the App Store, Apple recently began highlighting apps' recommended age ratings by adding a small informational box located directly below a title's developer credits, possibly in response to growing concern from parents over in-app content.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Moves Ahead With Its Plans For A Common Web API For Payments  —  Mozilla is working with payment vendors and the W3C standards body to create a common API to make online payments, both on desktop and mobile, easier and more secure.  To get this process going, Mozilla has implemented …

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