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April 12, 2013, 8:15 PM

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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 …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Facebook Home Hit with Poor Reviews as 48% of Users Award It 1 Star  —  Update: We've heard from a Google spokesperson who tells us that only those that installed the app are able to leave a review, proving that the reviews are from legitimate users who have tried Facebook Home and are disappointed in how it turned out.
More: GigaOM
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 …
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 …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Knight Foundation-Backed Mobile Sensor Startup Behavio Shuts Down As Founders Join Google  —  The team behind the Knight Foundation-backed mobile sensor startup Behavio today announced that it is joining Google.  We have learned that this is not an acquisition or an acqui-hire, however.
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.
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 …
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:
Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
Apple's ‘Coach’ Campbell Sees Google Glass Starting Era of Intimate Objects  —  Apple's latest and greatest creation will be something ranging from a wristwatch to touch-ready lingerie, if you read the tea leaves laid out by Bill Campbell, a member of the company's board.
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 …
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.
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.”

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