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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.| 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.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Talking heads: how a late-night hack turned into Facebook's next big thing — Facebook gambles on private messages as the future of mobile — On a Wednesday almost one year ago, Facebook product designers Joey Flynn and Brandon Walkin decided to work from home.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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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 … | 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.| Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo: |
Yep, The Immigration Bill's Path To Citizenship Is The Real Deal — After months of vague talking points about creating a “path to citizenship” versus a “special path to citizenship” versus “amnesty,” the Senate's “Gang of 8” finally has an immigration bill ready.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Yahoo's Q1 2013 revenue of $1.14 billion doesn't excite, but its $0.35 in EPS beats expectations — Today Yahoo reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $1.14 billion, and earnings per share of $0.35 on a GAAP basis, and $0.38 on a non-GAAP basis.| 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.| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
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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.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
CISPA vote means companies can't promise to protect privacy — Proposed amendment to CISPA said Internet companies' promises to protect customer privacy were legally enforceable. But then Republicans voted it down. — Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other Internet companies and e-mail providers … | 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.| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Escaping PCs — The Windows PC market is contracting. The market data has been showing unit shipment declining for some time with the latest quarter having perhaps the steepest decline for two decades. — What remains undocumented however is how the market looks when considering economic value.| Spencer Ackerman / Wired: |
Data for the Boston Marathon Investigation Will Be Crowdsourced — The investigation of Monday's deadly twin bombings in Boston will rely to an extraordinary extent on crowdsourced surveillance, provided by Marathon spectators' cellphone photos, Vine videos, and Instagram feeds.| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
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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.”| Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
Android founder: We aimed to make a camera OS — The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of “smart cameras” that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode.| Somini Sengupta / NYT Bits: |
Start-Up Lets Users Track Who Tracks Them — Is your Web browsing history your business - or everyone else's? — A start-up based in Palo Alto, Calif., Disconnect, which helps you track who is tracking you online, this week released its latest tool to help safeguard your browsing history.| Microsoft: |
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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.| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Evernote launches no-equity accelerator program to promote ‘more cool things’ on its platform — How does an all-expenses-paid trip to Redwood City, Calif., for a month-long entrepreneurship course with Silicon Valley developers and designers sound? — If you're a developer building an app …
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