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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.
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.
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.
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) …
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Reasons for iOS outperformance in the US  —  The comScore mobiLens survey for the US ending February 2013 shows continuing rapid expansion of smartphone usage in the US.  Even though the 50% penetration threshold was passed seven months earlier, the rate of new smartphone users …
More: AllThingsD
Joe Jerde / BlackBerryOS.com:
New Leaked Picture Of The BlackBerry R-Series Smartphone  —  Well, we have seen the L-Series (Z10), N-Series (Q10), and now we get a better look at the upcoming R-Series smartphone, or otherwise known as the BB10 Curve.  Last time we got a look at this device it was in a more grainy format.
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 …
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Nokia launches its Music+ subscription service on Windows 8 and Windows RT  —  Nokia has launched its music streaming service Nokia Music as an app for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices today, giving desktop PC, laptop and tablet owners a new way to listen to an almost unlimited amount of albums and singles.
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
ITC judge says Samsung infringes key part of Apple patent  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd infringed a key portion of an Apple Inc patent by including a text-selection feature in its smartphones and tablets, an International Trade Commission judge said in a preliminary decision.
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.
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 …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Jolla Adds Sailfish SDK Installers For Windows, OS X, Linux To Push More Developers To Build Native Apps For Its MeeGo Platform  —  Jolla, the Finnish startup that carried the MeeGo torch out of Nokia in order to light a fire under its own smartphone OS: Sailfish, has taken the next step in its platform play …
More: GigaOM, Engadget, MacNN and IntoMobile.  Tweets: @jollahq
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase faces phishing attacks after data leak  —  Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase has publicly, and presumably accidentally, exposed information about its users' names, e-mail addresses, and details of their transactions on the Coinbase website.

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