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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.

Steven Levy / Wired:

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication — As caretaker of a service with a billion users, Mark Zuckerberg is used to sparking protest. Any time his company releases a new product, adjusts a privacy setting, or even tweaks the design, thousands …

More: Fortune, Epeus' epigone, Forbes, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The Verge

Tweets: @stevekovach and @stevenlevy

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

While “Facebook Home” Keeps Google, Search Is Harder To Reach — Pick your survey, and one of the top activities on a smartphone is to use Facebook. That's what the new Facebook Home is all about, making it easier for Facebook users to get Facebook. But it also makes another top activity — search — harder to do.

More: TechCrunch, Marketing Land and Forbes

Tweets: @danieleran and @gustojunk

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.

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Tweets: @cdirusso, @stevekovach, @panzer, @fmanjoo, @tim, @stevenlevy, @jguynn, @parislemon, @mikeisaac, @rogerwcheng, @mikeisaac, @parislemon, @swb1192, @mikeisaac, @tim and @tim

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Zuckerberg: Home is the ‘next version of Facebook,’ not heading to iOS anytime soon

More: The Verge, Forbes, Guardian, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Next Web, PSFK, Businessweek and App Advice

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Android: Facebook's new weapon against Google

More: GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, DailyFinance.com, CNET and The Verge

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Zuckerberg: No ads in Home yet, but they will come to Cover Feed eventually

More: ABCNEWS, ReadWrite, Computerworld and Business Insider

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Facebook Home will be on Google's Play Store for select phones April 12, tablets later

More: The Verge, ZDNet and TechCrunch

Tweets: @panzer, @parislemon, @parislemon and @parislemon

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Who's Going To Buy The Facebook Phone? — Facebook unveiled its long-awaited mobile phone platform today. It is, as assumed, a Facebook “layer” on top of Google Android. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, or even take a detailed look at the presentation. But I can already see where it might be useful and popular.

More: Forbes, AllFacebook and Techie Buzz

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 …

More: ABCNEWS, Mercury News, Gotta Be Mobile, AllThingsD, Guardian, AllThingsD, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, CNET, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, CNET, WebProNews, CITEworld, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica and TechCrunch

Tweets: @parislemon, @gruber, @ikahn6294, @panzer, @zpower, @gruber and @jwherrman

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

HTC First with Facebook Home hands-on (video)

More: Screenwerk, AnandTech, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, Android and Me, Yahoo! News, The Next Web and Engadget

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

The Facebook phone is not as dumb as I thought it was going to be.

More: Mashable

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 …

More: Engadget, SlashGear, NextBigWhat, CrackBerry.com, iPhone Hacks, PC Magazine, The Register, ZDNet, TechSpot and PadGadget. Thanks:@jbruin. See also Mediagazer

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Verizon CEO says he's open to dropping contracts — CEO Lowell McAdams says the company could easily shift to the model if consumers begin demanding it. — Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam cracked open the door to a full no-contract wireless world. — McAdam said it was “pretty easy” …

More: BGR, PC Magazine, DSLreports, GigaOM, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys and FierceWireless

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

iPad price cuts: A signal Apple is about to release new ones — WalMart, BestBuy and MacMall have all lowered their prices on iPads and iPad minis. — FORTUNE — It's only been 163 days since Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad mini and updated its full-size iPad line …

More: IntoMobile, Examiner, Electronista, dailywireless.org, TUAW, NYT Bits and Gotta Be Mobile

Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:

Google Fights U.S. National Security Probe Data Demand — Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's largest search engine, is challenging a demand by the U.S. government for private user information in a national security probe, according to a court filing.

More: Wired, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Computerworld, VentureBeat and Hillicon Valley

Paul Sloan / CNET:

For labels, Apple's iRadio deal could be sweeter than Pandora — Apple is close to a deal with two major music labels to bring to life its streaming music service, which could pay labels better than Pandora does. — Apple is close to striking a streaming deal with two of the major music labels …

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Next Web, PhoneArena and iClarified

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

comScore: Apple increases lead as top US smartphone maker, Samsung gains; Android down second month in a row — In the US, Apple started 2013 as the top OEM and it has only further increased its lead in February. Samsung is gaining as well, but not quite as quickly.

More: comScore, Inc., BGR, GigaOM, Mobile Marketing Watch, iMore, 9to5Mac, TUAW, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Loop, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Marketing Land

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 …

More: TechSpot, ValueWalk, PC Magazine, bizjournals, The Register, TUAW, Business Insider, VentureBeat, InvestorPlace and Gizmodo

Bloomberg:

France Telecom CEO Says Frugal Buyers Threaten IPhone Sales — France Telecom SA (FTE) Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard, head of one of Europe's largest wireless carriers, said the increasing frugality of customers is threatening sales of pricey phones such as Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone.

More: CNET, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider and MacNN

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later — The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company's founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers in 1981. Fast forward 32 years, and check out the picture below …

More: The Verge, ZDNet, The Register, NYT Bits, Neowin and WinBeta. Thanks:@johnhcook

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 …

More: Gartner, TechCrunch, T3 News, InfoWorld, WinBeta and Computerworld

George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:

NAB: Sony Launches Media Cloud Services — Sony is the latest to jump into the cloud services business with the launch of a new subsidiary, Sony Media Cloud Services, which will provide cloud services to help producers share, store and process content from around the world.

More: Los Angeles Business Journal and Hollywood Reporter

Liam Tung / ZDNet:

Nokia shuts its biggest store in the world in Shanghai — Summary: Nokia has shuttered its flagship store in China, and is looking to mobile operators and others to pick up the slack. — Liam Tung — Nokia has closed the Shanghai flagship store that it once billed as its largest in the world.

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