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April 16, 2013, 3:50 PM

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook's Chat Heads Come to iPhones, iPad With App Update — You can't get Facebook Home on iPhone. But very soon you'll be able to get one of the most buzzed-about features from Facebook's new mobile software set: “Chat Heads” are coming to iOS devices, via a Facebook app update.

More: Bloomberg, Tech Europe, ReadWrite, Inside Facebook, AllThingsD, iMore, Digital Trends, TechHive, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget, Neowin, SlashGear, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceMobileContent News and Electronista

Tweets: @panzer and @sharonvak

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook 6.0 for iPad and iPhone: hands-on with Chat Heads, stickers, and more — Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but we're in the midst of a fairly remarkable blitz of Facebook releases on mobile. The company announced Facebook Home and the HTC First and then (in a pattern that's all-too-rare) released both about a week later.

More: Facebook Newsroom, AllFacebook, CNET, CNET, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile and everythingiCafe

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: ‘I love it’ — July 9-10, 2013 — NEW YORK CITY — Facebook Home takes away part of the Android experience in favor of social networking. But outspoken Google chairman Eric Schmidt said today at the Dive into Mobile conference …

More: AllThingsD, SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, CNET and The Verge

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Facebook Home available outside US later today, first update coming ‘second week of May’ — On stage at AllThingsD's Dive Into Mobile conference today, Cory Ondrejka, head of mobile engineering at Facebook, announced that the first update to Facebook Home for Android will be released in “the second week of May.”

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Engadget and Phones Review

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Talking heads: how a late-night hack turned into Facebook's next big thing

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google's Next Group of Gadgets Will Blow You Away, Says Eric Schmidt — Google chairman Eric Schmidt is spending a lot of time on the road right now — he's got a new book to promote — but he has popped into Google's Motorola unit to see what the phone company is working up. — It's amazing stuff, he promises.

More: Computerworld, Guardian, CNET, Betabeat, BGR, ABCNEWS, ZDNet, Business Insider, Neowin, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android and Me and Phones Review

Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:

Motorola Plans Stock Android Phones, Sized ‘Just Right’ — Motorola might be building my dream phone. Jim Wicks, Motorola's design chief, said the company's first round of products designed after Google's purchase of the company will follow a philosophy of “better is better” rather than …

More: 9to5Google, BGR, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidGuys, Droid Life and FierceWireless. Thanks:@saschasegan

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop — Summary: Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery — Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.

More: ReadWrite, BGR, Examiner, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Marketing Land, CNET, Search Engine Roundtable, Guardian, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable, newlaunches.com, Business Insider, BetaNews and PetaPixel. Thanks:@markgurman

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Google Glass developers prohibited from using ads or charging for apps

More: Business Insider, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, Mashable, Geek.com, Zef.me, Business Insider and SlashGear

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

MyGlass App Goes Live In The Play Store, Google Launches Glass Setup Page

More: Examiner

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook Seeks 7-Figure Price Tag for Summer Debut of Video Ads — TV-Like Ads Can Be Bought for Four Broad Demographic Swaths — Facebook is hoping that its hotly anticipated video-ad units can be a more-than-$4-million daily business out of the gate — if its asking price is met.

More: Digital Trends, Engadget, Betabeat, CNET, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, The Verge, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Business Insider and Electronista

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Leaked Document Shows AppGratis Used Lure Of App Store Rankings To Attract Cash From Developers — AppGratis, the app-discovery app that Apple removed last week for closely mimicking the official App Store, started an online petition yesterday that encourages users to ask Apple to let it return.

More: 9to5Mac, MacNN and Forrester Blogs. Thanks:@stevekovach

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Windows Phone Head Myerson: Android “Still Kind of a Mess” — In an interview at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference today, the leader of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, Terry Myerson, said that the software giant's mobile effort continued to cast it as a “challenger,” but that Google's Android market was “still kind of a mess.”

More: The Verge, The Next Web, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Business Insider, BGR, Computerworld, BGR, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, GeekWire, CNET, Bloomberg and FierceWireless

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users, 8B Inbound And 12B Outbound Messages Daily — WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was on stage today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City, where he said that the app is now larger than Twitter by monthly active users.

More: AllThingsD, AllThingsD, BGR, GigaOM, VentureBeat, CNET, CNET, Neowin, memeburn and iClarified

Bloomberg:

Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online — Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: GigaOM, AllThingsD, VatorNews, Computerworld, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Digital Trends and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Snapchat Now Boasts More Than 150 Million Photos Taken Daily — Snapchat, the wildly popular messaging service that lets users send self-deleting photos to one another, has exploded in volume over the past few months, now moving upward of 150 million photos through the service on a daily basis.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, Betabeat, PC Magazine, The Verge, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, The Verge and WebProNews

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

AT&T's Galaxy S 4 page lists April 30th ship date, $199 / $639 price for 16GB — We saw AT&T open up a registration page for the Galaxy S 4 almost as soon as Samsung's presentation was over, but now that link is exposing a bit more information. Several tipsters let us know that for customers …

More: Examiner, CNET, BGR, BetaNews, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Phone Scoop, PhoneArena and Sammy Hub

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable to Offer Live Mobile TV for Apple Devices — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable operator, is adding live out-of-home programming for the first time to its TWC TV application, letting customers watch shows on Apple Inc. (AAPL) mobile devices.

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, BestTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, dailywireless.org and App Advice. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mailbox Drops Its Reservation System As It Revamps To Handle 100M Messages/Day — Mailbox, the email-reading and organizing app that was scooped up by Dropbox for reportedly $100 million in March after a barnstorming entry to the market, is dropping its reservation system …

More: The Next Web, iMore, GigaOM, Macworld, The Verge and Lifehacker

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Amazon gains against Apple's iTunes in music downloads — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday.

More: NPD Group, GigaOM, GeekWire, The Verge and MacRumors. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple says small number of Apple TVs have WiFi issues, opens replacement program — Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being able …

More: Engadget, CNET, Ars Technica, Macworld and App Advice

NPD Group:

Screen Mirroring Awareness Reaches 40 Percent of Smartphone and Tablet Owners, According to The NPD Group — Apple's AirPlay is the most well-known — Screen mirroring technologies, which gives consumers the ability to wirelessly project content from smartphones, PCs or tablets directly to a television …

More: blog.chron.com

IAB:

Internet Ad Revenues Again Hit Record-Breaking Double-Digit Annual Growth, Reaching Nearly $37 Billion, a 15% Increase Over 2011's Landmark Numbers — Q4 2012 Surpasses $10 Billion, Marking a Nearly 15% Increase Over Q4 2011 — Mobile Ad Revenues More than Double for the Second Year in a Row

More: IAB, TechCrunch, Digits, Business Insider, Mashable, Los Angeles Times, Adotas, iabuk.net and Poynter. See also Mediagazer

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Details Of Immigration Bill Revealed, More High-Skilled Visas And Employer Fees — New details of the highly anticipated comprehensive immigration reform bill have leaked ahead of its introduction to Congress on Tuesday (April 16). Most of the technology industry will be pleased …

More: PandoDaily, Politico and The Verge

Graham Cluley / Naked Security:

Syrian Electronic Army hacks NPR, vandalizes headlines — The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have hacked into accounts belonging to the NPR media network, and defaced news stories overnight. — A Google search for the phrase “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here” reveals some evidence of webpages that were hit in the attack.

More: NPR, Ars Technica, Poynter, VentureBeat, TechPresident, The Verge and Daily Dot. See also Mediagazer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Tweetie and ‘pull-to-refresh’ creator Loren Brichter reportedly working with a Facebook team — According to a tweet from Facebook's Mike Matas this morning, the company's new social home screen project has gained itself a hot collaborator. Matas says that developer and designer Loren Brichter is ‘helping out’ his Facebook Home team.

More: Business Insider, BuzzFeed and TUAW. Tweets: @mike_matas

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