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April 10, 2013, 2:40 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple's Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown  —  Simon Dawlat, founder of AppGratis — the app-discovery application removed from the iTunes App Store this week for developer guideline violations — said he's “in total disbelief” at Apple's action.  And it's hard to blame him.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014?  —  Summary: An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's two-year wave of coming Office updates implies Office for iOS and Android may be further away than many industry watchers thought.  —  An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's coming ‘Gemini’ wave …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches Partner Categories, 500+ Generic Profiles To Target Ads Better, With Data From Datalogix, Epsilon, Axciom  —  Facebook today is taking another step ahead in its ad targeting strategy, which serves users advertising based on their location and online purchasing and browsing histories.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
In Midst of Mobile Pivot, Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Step Down Later This Year  —  Gary Kovacs, who has been CEO of Mozilla for just over two years, will be stepping down later this year, the company announced this morning to employees.  The Mountain View, Calif.-based open source software nonprofit foundation …
Wall Street Journal:
The New Résumé: It's 140 Characters  —  Some Recruiters, Job Seekers Turn to Twitter, but Format Is a Challenge; Six-Second Video Goes Viral  —  Twitter is becoming the new job board.  It is also becoming the new résumé.  —  Fed up with traditional recruiting sites …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps?  —  Facebook invades Android with a new lockscreen and a new chat experience  —  On April 12th, the much-vaunted Facebook Phone will arrive — but it's not a phone at all.  Facebook Home, as its called, is a couple of pieces …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
OS X 10.8.4 code confirms new Macs incoming with super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless support  —  Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple's latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers.
Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung Office Searched by Police in OLED Technology Leak Probe  —  South Korean police searched the offices of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s display-making unit yesterday in connection with an investigation into alleged technology theft.  —  Samsung Display Co., which dominates …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Review: Panic's Status Board — the ultimate information dashboard for your iPad  —  The guys over at Panic Inc. have been teasing their new iPad app on their blog and Twitter all week, and today the app known as Status Board hits the App Store.  —  Panic was kind enough to allow us a preview of its app …
Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:
Here are the first three commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S4  —  Don't ask me why, but every once in a while I'll do a YouTube search for “Galaxy S4″ just to see if something new has turned up.  There are plenty of reviews already posted from people in Russia, the Ukraine, and Denmark if you know where to look.
Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:
T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program  —  T-Mobile USA, the struggling phone carrier, really wants you to switch to its network — so badly that it will give you a break on a brand-new iPhone in exchange for an old one.  —  The company said on Wednesday that when it begins selling …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
‘Y: The Last Man’ creator's new comic will soon return to Comixology after Apple controversy (updated)  —  The distinction between app and art breaks down  —  According to Comixology, Saga #12 will soon be back: it's come out with a different story than Image Comics, which reported that Apple banned the comic.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone.  62% plan to buy one.  —  23% are looking to buy an Android phone, up from 22% last fall.  —  FORTUNE — The results of Piper Jaffray's 25th bi-annual teen survey came in Tuesday afternoon.  Once again, it showed Apple (AAPL) to be the most desired brand …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Google sold Frommer's Travel — but kept all the social media data  —  People wondered why Google sold Frommer's Travel barely nine months after acquiring it in the first place.  The answer is that it's keeping a huge number social media followers from sites like Facebook.  —  Mystery solved.

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