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April 6, 2013, 5:25 PM

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Google publishes - then removes - a post stating that Fiber will launch in Austin, Texas next — A report from VentureBeat yesterday, citing multiple sources, claimed that Google and the City of Austin would be announcing the launch of the Google Fiber gigabit Internet service in the Texan city on Tuesday.

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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

HTC First can revert to stock Android in lieu of Facebook Home (update) — It looks like HTC's new “Facebook Phone,” the First, runs stock Android. Phandroid reports that the unadorned OS is lurking just beneath the surface, accessible either by resetting the default launcher or by disabling …

More: CNET, Phandroid, T3 News, Mashable, HotHardware.com News, Pocket-lint and Android Community

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Facebook details Home privacy: It won't collect info from inside apps and it can be shut off completely

More: CNET, Facebook Newsroom, CNN, Softpedia News, GigaOM, GigaOM, The Verge, SocialTimes, Engadget and TechCrunch

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

California Court Rules It Illegal To Check Maps On Your Phone While Driving — For years, we've discussed the problematic nature of “distracted driving” laws that seek to outlaw things like talking on your phone or texting while driving. It is not that we don't think these behaviors are dangerous.

More: The Verge and TechCrunch. Tweets: @orinkerr

Phil Milford / Bloomberg:

Zynga Sued Over Social-Game Maker Executives' Stock Sales — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the largest maker of online social games, was sued by a shareholder after executives were allowed to sell stock early for more than $200 million, while sales by lower level employees and outsiders were blocked.

More: The Next Web

Emanuel Maiberg / Inside Social Games:

Zynga hopes to retain top executives with bigger bonuses tied to performance, Mark Pincus' new annual salary is $1

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon pictured in leaked image — Images are surfacing of what purports to be Nokia's upcoming flagship Windows Phone device for Verizon, the Lumia 928. Twitter user @evleaks posted renders of the front and back of the 920 variant, and outwardly it looks nearly the same as AT&T's.

More: LiveSide.net, Engadget, IntoMobile, T3 News, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, Unwired View, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Business Insider and Gizmodo

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

When cancer stole Roger Ebert's voice, Twitter gave him a new one — Film critic Roger Ebert talked about how much Twitter meant to him as a form of conversation, and his enthusiastic use of it as a way to connect with readers is a lesson to journalists of all kinds.

More: CNN and Motherboard

Wikimedia France:

French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article — Wikimedia France strongly condemns pressure on Wikipedia sysop by French homeland intelligence agency (DCRI) — In early March, the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) …

More: Geekosystem

Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:

Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business — Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off. — The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer after Mitt Romney's Twitter following jumped by 100,000 in a matter of days.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @carnage4life and @martinsfp

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

InTrade Announces $700,000 Cash Shortfall And Risk Of Imminent Liquidation — Back in early March, “prediction market” InTrade shocked the world by announcing it was halting all trading activity immediately. — InTrade, of course, was famous for offering betting on event outcomes …

More: Intrade, New York Times, Bloomberg and Reuters

Reuters:

Exclusive: Former News Corp President Chernin bids $500 million for Hulu — (Reuters) - Former News Corp president Peter Chernin bid around $500 million for Hulu, the online video streaming service he helped create in 2007, according to two sources with knowledge of Hulu's sale process.

More: AllThingsD, The Next Web, CNET, VentureBeat, Electronista, SlashGear, Deadline.com, The Verge and Engadget

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