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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy — One of the great things about attending Facebook's events is that one gets to see Mark Zuckerberg mature as a chief executive and hone his presentation skills. And today, he didn't disappoint in his ability to spin the media corps.
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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.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication — As caretaker of a service with a billion users, Mark Zuckerberg is used to sparking protest. Any time his company releases a new product, adjusts a privacy setting, or even tweaks the design, thousands …
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| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
Who's Going To Buy The Facebook Phone? — Facebook unveiled its long-awaited mobile phone platform today. It is, as assumed, a Facebook “layer” on top of Google Android. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, or even take a detailed look at the presentation. But I can already see where it might be useful and popular.
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| Dustin Curtis / dcurtis: |
Vision — After showing Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg spent a few minutes talking about the future of computing. What he said is basically the epitome of a vision statement, and it sets the philosophy driving Facebook's work: At one level, [Home] is just the next mobile version of Facebook.
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| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
For labels, Apple's iRadio deal could be sweeter than Pandora — Apple is close to a deal with two major music labels to bring to life its streaming music service, which could pay labels better than Pandora does. — Apple is close to striking a streaming deal with two of the major music labels … | Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: |
JEFF BEZOS INVESTS IN BUSINESS INSIDER [Full Internal Memo] — Jeff Bezos has invested in Business Insider, according to an internal memo that has just been obtained. Here's the memo from Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget: Team, I wanted to share the details of the financing we mentioned last night.| Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Invests in Blodget's Business Insider Site — Business Insider Inc., the business- news site co-founded by former Internet analyst Henry Blodget, raised $5 million in venture capital from investors led by Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos.
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Samsung expects first-quarter profits of $7.7B, up 53 percent — The guidance is better than many analysts expected but breaks the company's string of five consecutive quarters of record profits. — Samsung Electronics expects to record an operating profit of 8.7 trillion won ($7.7 billion) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile USA Opens Pre-Orders For iPhone 5 Starting At $99.99, Shipping April 12 — T-Mobile USA has now started online pre-orders for the iPhone 5 — the first time that the carrier will be offering the device. Prices start at $99.99 for the 16GB models if you opt for a subsequent monthly payment plan …
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| 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” …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Patent filing suggests Apple is working on ‘Street View’ mapping technology — An Apple patent application discovered on Thursday hints that the company is looking to deploy on mobile devices a virtual navigation system based on panoramic location data, much like the popular “Street View” seen in Google Maps.
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| Neil McAllister / The Register: |
WebKit devs on Blink fork: ‘Two can play that game’ — Purge of Chrome-related code planned — Now that Google has announced that it will migrate its Chrome browser from the WebKit rendering engine to a homegrown fork called Blink, WebKit developers have already begun discussing how to remove Chrome-specific code from the project.
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| Jo Best / ZDNet: |
‘Android before Android’: The long, strange history of Symbian and why it matters for Nokia's future — Summary: When Nokia decided to ditch Symbian back in 2011, it effectively signed the OS' death warrant. Is history now poised to repeat itself as Nokia squares up to Android in emerging markets?
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| 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.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Adds KPCB's John Doerr To Its Board Of Directors — Zynga, the social games company that is now expanding its business into real-money online gambling, is today announcing a new heavyweight on its board of directors: John Doerr, a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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