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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can't Use It  —  Want to play with Twitter's new music app?  You can get it today — if you're really famous.  —  If not, you're going to have to wait a week.  —  Here's the deal: As we wrote yesterday, Twitter is launching its new music discovery app for iOS devices …
Matt Brian / The Verge:
Chat Heads come to Facebook Messenger for Android  —  Preparing its apps for the launch of its Home launcher, Facebook has pushed an update for its Android Messenger app, allowing users to take advantage of the new Chat Heads feature.  Like in Facebook Home, the Messenger app displays …
Matt Brian / The Verge:
Facebook Home available to download on select Android devices  —  AT&T also opens orders for the HTC First, priced at $99.99 on a two-year contract  —  Just over a week after its announcement, Facebook Home is now available to download on Google Play.  Facebook's Android launcher is currently …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile Begins $99 iPhone 5 Sales, Sees Lines At Retail Stores  —  T-Mobile is kicking off its official sales of the iPhone 5 today, marking the first time the U.S.' fourth largest carrier has offered an Apple smartphone.  Thanks to T-Mo's new Uncarrier plans, the iPhone 5 can be had starting at just $99 …
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Unfazed By Bitcoin's Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets  —  Bitcoin's record highs and the ensuring surge in hacking attempts and thefts may be grabbing headlines.  However, beneath the chaos, Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms are finally starting …
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Verizon upgrade eligibility extends to a full two years, New Every Two credits expire April 15th  —  Verizon subscribers, we hope your device habits don't revolve too closely around that 20-month upgrade cycle: it's about to get longer.  Big Red has confirmed that upgrade eligibility …
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Tech Firms Push to Hire More Workers From Abroad  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Vishal Sankhla, an Indian engineer, is among those at the center of a storm over how to fix the nation's immigration system.  —  Mr. Sankhla got a master's degree in electrical engineering nine years ago from the University …
Bloomberg:
Dish Said to Have Approached Deutsche Telekom About T-Mobile Bid  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen informally approached Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) about a possible merger with the German company's T-Mobile USA Inc. unit, a deal that would let him bundle wireless service …
More: CNET
John McDermott / AdAge:
Foursquare Planning to Offer Check-in Data to Target Ads on Other Platforms  —  Location Data to Be Made Available to Ad Networks and Exchanges  —  Foursquare has started pitching digital agencies on a new ad product that would use Foursquare's location and behavioral data to contextualize ads …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Henry Blodget Helps Jeff Bezos Out With Some Writing  —  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just invested millions in Henry Blodget's Business Insider.  And look what he got in return!  Free investor relations help.  —  Here's Bezos, four paragraphs into his annual letter to shareholders, released this morning:
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
PebbleOS 1.10 supports third-party watch faces, sorts out iOS issues  —  Pebble has been on a rapid cadence with smartwatch updates to justify those crowdfunded dollars, and it's not letting up just because watch shipments are well underway.  PebbleOS 1.10 has arrived with support for custom watch faces built using the matching SDK.
Allison Martell / Reuters:
BlackBerry to ask regulators to probe report on returns  —  (Reuters) - BlackBerry said on Friday it would ask securities regulators in Canada and the United States to probe a report about retail return rates for its new Z10 smartphone that it called “false and misleading.”
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio service imminent  —  Apple is expected to sign the largest record label perhaps as soon as next week, sources say.  Warner Music is right behind.  —  Apple is expected to sign its first internet radio licensing agreement …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Opinion: Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source  —  Microsoft and Oracle say it's “predatory” for companies to give away software.  —  On Tuesday, we reported on a new complaint filed by “Fairsearch,” an anti-Google group that counts Microsoft, Oracle, Nokia …
More: BGR.  Tweets: @dannysullivan
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Letter To Jennifer Allen Regarding False And Defamatory Statements  —  The following letter from my attorneys was delivered to Jennifer Allen this afternoon, in response to her previous claims.  I believe the letter speaks for itself.  —  Eric M. George  —  Browne George Ross  —  Via E-Mail and U.S. Mail
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Arris Gets DoJ OK For Its $2.35B Acquisition Of Motorola Home Broadband Business From Google, Deal Closing Around April 17  —  Another key chapter in Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola is getting concluded.  Today Arris announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Department …
David Kravets / Wired:
Apple Agrees to Pay $53M to Settle iPhone Warranty Lawsuit  —  Apple is agreeing to pay $53 million to settle a class action accusing the company of failing to honor warranties on iPhones and iPod Touches, according to an agreement obtained today by Wired.  —  The settlement, (.pdf) …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Flipboard Attracts 500,000 Magazines, 3 Million New Users in 2 Weeks  —  Two weeks after launching Flipboard 2.0 with a user-generated magazine feature, the company has announced that readers have created over 500,000 curated publications.  —  Flipboard magazines are curated collections of content that users can share.

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