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April 8, 2013, 10:30 AM

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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Facebook Home beta apps leak, can be installed on Nexus 4 and 7  —  MoDaCo has just leaked a pre-release version of Facebook Home.  Set for launch on April 12th, Facebook's new launcher will initially only be compatible with five handsets, but MoDaCo says this pre-release version works …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
HTC March Revenue Rises, But Still Down 50% Compared To 2012  —  As usual around this time, smartphone and tablet maker HTC released its monthly consolidated revenue numbers for the month before.  At first look, they don't look too bad, but don't be fooled.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com—without Apple's OK  —  The ghost of Steve Jobs will not be pleased to see this.  —  Zack Henkel  —  Robert Silvie returned to his parents' home for a Mardi Gras visit this year and immediately noticed something strange …
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Response  —  There have been some extremely serious and criminal allegations against me over the last week.  All of the allegations are completely untrue, and I've hired a law firm to represent me in the legal actions against the offending parties.  —  I know this isn't, for now, much information.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Streaming Sites and the Rise of Shared Accounts  —  LAST Sunday afternoon, some friends and I were hanging out in a local bar, talking about what we'd be doing that evening.  It turned out that we all had the same plan: to watch the season premiere of “Game of Thrones.”
Tanzina Vega / New York Times:
Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads  —  Articles in a series on Mashable.com called “What's Inside” looked for all the world like the hundreds of other articles on the digital media site.  But journalistically, they were something very different.
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Microsoft Sells Mediaroom To Ericsson To Focus On Xbox  —  Telecom equipment maker Ericsson has agreed to acquire Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV business, which makes software that allows operators to deliver television over the Internet, the company announced this morning (via Reuters).
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Japan Real Time:
Kabam Woos Japanese Game Makers With $50 Million Fund … Free-to-play online game company Kabam says it can help Japanese videogame developers cash in on the huge North American and European markets.  And it's putting money on the line to back up its words.

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