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April 22, 2013, 10:35 AM

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Facebook Home passes 500,000 installations on Google Play one week after launch — Facebook's new Home Android launcher has passed the 500,000 download mark on the Google Play store after a little over a week in the wild, though it continues to accumulate mostly negative reviews and has sunk to an average rating of 2.2.

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Google Now for Google's Homepage in Testing — It looks like Google Now won't be limited to Android, iOS and Chrome, it will also be added to Google's homepage. Some code from a page that's tested by Google offers more information about this feature. … That's how Google introduces the new feature.

More: Engadget, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile and Neowin

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Exclusive: EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation — (Reuters) - EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe began emailing millions of users of the company's online marketplace on Sunday in an unprecedented lobbying effort to change looming Federal sales tax legislation.

More: Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Verge, TECH.BLORGE.com and bizjournals

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Senate poised to back Internet sales tax

More: GeekWire, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:

Google Fined 145,000 Euros Over Wi-Fi Data Collection in Germany — Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's largest Internet search engine, was fined 145,000 euros ($189,230) by a German regulator for collecting wireless-network data by its cars taking photos for the Street View service.

More: The Verge, New York Times, Engadget, NEWS.com.au, ZDNet, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Hillicon Valley, TechCrunch, Associated Press, PC World, SlashGear, Softpedia News and bizjournals

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

The rise and fall of AMD: How an underdog stuck it to Intel — In part one of this two-part series, we look at the evolution of AMD from a second-source supplier for companies using Intel processors towards CEO Hector Ruiz's ideal of a “premium” chipmaker that could sell to the likes of Dell and Intel.

More: iDownloadBlog.com

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Comedy Central to Host Comedy Festival on Twitter — Next week, Comedy Central will host a five-day comedy festival that includes a lineup of legends like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner alongside popular young comics like Amy Schumer and the director Paul Feig. — But there will be no smoky comedy clubs.

More: CNET, Marketing Land, The Next Web, Mashable, Daily Dot, Softpedia News, The Inquisitr and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

BBC:

Google boss defends UK tax record to BBC — Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has defended his company paying just £6m in UK corporation tax. — His comments came after a committee of MPs last year denounced multinationals - including Google - who pay little tax on their UK earnings, as “immoral”.

More: Telegraph, The Register, Reuters, Inquirer, Stop The Cyborgs, SlashGear, Forbes and Tech Digest

Reuters:

Apple's dimming luster roils suppliers, investors — (Reuters) - Apple Inc marketing chief Phil Schiller let slip during last August's courtroom battle with Samsung that when setting forecasts for new iPhones, the inside joke was that people should assume sales would equal all previous versions combined.

More: Business Insider, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac and TechEye

Ian Steadman / Wired.co.uk:

Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor … The authorities in Japan are so worried about their inability to tackle cybercrime that they are asking ISPs there to block the use of Tor. — According to The Mainichi, the National Police Agency (NPA, a bit like the Japanese FBI) …

More: BBC, DSLreports, ZDNet, SlashGear, TechEye and The Register

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings — Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. — There's no official announcement that I can find about the app …

More: Engadget, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Roundtable, UnleashThePhones, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Boston police chief: facial recognition tech didn't help find bombing suspects — While the whole country is relieved that this past week's Boston Marathon bombing ordeal and subsequent lockdown of the city is finally over, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told the Washington Post …

More: Felix Salmon, Washington Post, IPVM, CNET, AllThingsD, NYT Bits, The Week Magazine and Gizmodo. Tweets: @nycjim. See also Mediagazer

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Nokia teases QWERTY phone announcement on April 24th — Official teasers rarely provide much in the way of detail, but this one from Nokia at least comes with a pretty picture. It reveals the rounded design language we have come to associate with the company's latest feature phones …

More: Nokia Conversations, VentureBeat, CNET, BetaNews, Electronista, Unwired View, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, UnleashThePhones, MobileSyrup.com, Windows Phone Central, SlashGear, Neowin, PhoneArena, newlaunches.com, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser

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