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April 14, 2013, 11:50 AM

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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
The second coming of Facebook  —  Back in 2010 Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision.  Instead of building separate apps for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokia devices, and, yes, even Microsoft phones, he put his engineers to work designing a version of Facebook that could operate on any smartphone.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Latest Home Commercial Is Just The Right Amount Of Weird  —  During the Facebook Home launch event, Zuck premiered the company's first commercial for the product.  —  Complete with half-naked dudes stuffed into luggage compartments, surprise drag queens, and an unintentionally spooky child, it was... pretty bad.
Economist:
Start-ups founded by immigrants are creating jobs all over America  —  ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley.  Bloom makes clean power-generation systems using a novel fuel-cell technology.
Rima Abdelkader / Rock Center with Brian Williams:
Laurene Powell Jobs on immigration reform & Steve Jobs' ‘private legacy’  —  Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs' death to advocate for immigration reform.  —  “I started getting more and more active around immigration reform …
Jan Chipchase / AllThingsD:
You Lookin' at Me?  Reflections on Google Glass. … With the public beta launch of Google Glass, there has been a lot of discussion on why it will or won't fail.  The ultimate benchmark for success is high: After someone has tried Glass, can they imagine life without it?  —  It's the wrong question.
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Terril Yue Jones / Reuters:
U.S., China agree to work together on cyber security  —  (Reuters) - China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber-security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, as the two sides moved to ease months of tensions and mutual accusations of hacking and Internet theft.
Kevin Collier / Daily Dot:
Google, Yahoo executives back CISPA through lobbying group  —  The battle raging around the Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act (CISPA) just got a little dirtier.  —  A lobbying group that counts top executives at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as board members has officially thrown its support behind the controversial bill.

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