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Facebook Newsroom:
Introducing Home  —  Today we're introducing Home - a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone.  We all want to share and connect.  That's how we discover new information and build meaningful relationships.  But today, phones are built around tasks and apps.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about ‘people, not apps’  —  Facebook's throwing its hat in the Android ring in a big, big way.  Today at an event at the company's campus in California, Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Home, a deep software integration with Android that puts Facebook services front and center.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
HTC and Facebook announce the First smartphone with AT&T, arriving April 12th for $99.99  —  HTC and Facebook have just announced the First, a new smartphone that puts Facebook front and center and runs on AT&T's network.  Despite its name, the First isn't the first device that Facebook …
CNET:
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance  —  Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant.  —  Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service …
Peter Burrows / Businessweek:
Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare  —  At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL).  Scarecrow thin but forceful as ever …
Rob Isaac / prng.net:
A Short Translation from Bulls**t to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ  —  1 Why is Chrome spawning a new browser engine?  The WebKit maintainers wouldn't let us attack Apple directly, by changing WebKit in ways that would make it perform badly on OS X and iOS.
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Adam Barth / Chromium Blog:
Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project  —  WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001.  Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium's rendering engine back when we started.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns  —  PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns  —  Microsoft faces a slide into irrelevance …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Anonymous takes control of North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites  —  North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous's latest efforts to disrupt the communist county's online presence.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung Decides to Build Its Own Stores — Inside Best Buy  —  Samsung is battling Apple on many fronts, and retail stores are no exception.  —  However, this time the company has opted not to follow the same path as its rival.  Whereas Apple opened its own chain of stores …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead  —  Say you need a latté.  You might pull out your phone, open the Yelp app and search for a nearby cafe.  If instead you want to buy an espresso machine, you will most likely tap Amazon.com.  —  Either way, Google lost a customer.
eMarketer:
Facebook to See Three in 10 Mobile Display Dollars This Year  —  Mobile advertising will reach $7.29 billion in 2013, and Google will take home more than half of it  —  Following explosive entrances by Facebook and Twitter to the marketplace, as well as a strong performance from Google …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Intel: The Big Bet That Could Change TV … Editor-in-chief: Digital  —  @awallenstein  —  Employees at Intel Corp. are free to roam almost anywhere across the vast Santa Clara, Calif., campus they call home.  Certain laboratories are off-limits of course; that's understandable …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix users aren't opening the app on as many days per month as they did a couple of years ago, and the average user is spending less time watching

Natalie Korach / Status:
Vanity Fair faces a legal conundrum over Matthew Cole's book excerpt alleging Jared Kushner's foreign ties; Condé Nast is traditionally wary of risky reporting

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Ex-60 Minutes EP Bill Owens, who left after clashing with CBS execs, will join YouTube journalism startup Newpress, which raised $12M led by Emerson Collective

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