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Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy — One of the great things about attending Facebook's events is that one gets to see Mark Zuckerberg mature as a chief executive and hone his presentation skills. And today, he didn't disappoint in his ability to spin the media corps.
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| 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.
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| Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: |
Jeff Bezos invests in Business Insider [Full Internal Memo] — Jeff Bezos has invested in Business Insider, according to an internal memo that has just been obtained. Here's the memo from Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget: Team, I wanted to share the details of the financing we mentioned last night.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos Invests in Blodget's Business Insider Site — Business Insider Inc., the business- news site co-founded by former Internet analyst Henry Blodget, raised $5 million in venture capital from investors led by Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos.
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Samsung expects first-quarter profits of $7.7B, up 53 percent — The guidance is better than many analysts expected but breaks the company's string of five consecutive quarters of record profits. — Samsung Electronics expects to record an operating profit of 8.7 trillion won ($7.7 billion) … | Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
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ITC judge says Samsung infringes key part of Apple patent — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd infringed a key portion of an Apple Inc patent by including a text-selection feature in its smartphones and tablets, an International Trade Commission judge said in a preliminary decision.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Reasons for iOS outperformance in the US — The comScore mobiLens survey for the US ending February 2013 shows continuing rapid expansion of smartphone usage in the US. Even though the 50% penetration threshold was passed seven months earlier, the rate of new smartphone users …
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New Leaked Picture Of The BlackBerry R-Series Smartphone — Well, we have seen the L-Series (Z10), N-Series (Q10), and now we get a better look at the upcoming R-Series smartphone, or otherwise known as the BB10 Curve. Last time we got a look at this device it was in a more grainy format.| 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 … | Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Nokia launches its Music+ subscription service on Windows 8 and Windows RT — Nokia has launched its music streaming service Nokia Music as an app for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices today, giving desktop PC, laptop and tablet owners a new way to listen to an almost unlimited amount of albums and singles.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour makes money by using victims' machines to mine Bitcoins — A new piece of malware propagating across Skype has been discovered that tries to convince the recipient to click on a link. What makes this particular threat different …
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WebKit devs on Blink fork: ‘Two can play that game’ — Purge of Chrome-related code planned — Now that Google has announced that it will migrate its Chrome browser from the WebKit rendering engine to a homegrown fork called Blink, WebKit developers have already begun discussing how to remove Chrome-specific code from the project.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile USA Opens Pre-Orders For iPhone 5 Starting At $99.99, Shipping April 12 — T-Mobile USA has now started online pre-orders for the iPhone 5 — the first time that the carrier will be offering the device. Prices start at $99.99 for the 16GB models if you opt for a subsequent monthly payment plan …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Patent filing suggests Apple is working on ‘Street View’ mapping technology — An Apple patent application discovered on Thursday hints that the company is looking to deploy on mobile devices a virtual navigation system based on panoramic location data, much like the popular “Street View” seen in Google Maps.
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Jolla Adds Sailfish SDK Installers For Windows, OS X, Linux To Push More Developers To Build Native Apps For Its MeeGo Platform — Jolla, the Finnish startup that carried the MeeGo torch out of Nokia in order to light a fire under its own smartphone OS: Sailfish, has taken the next step in its platform play … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Adds KPCB's John Doerr To Its Board Of Directors — Zynga, the social games company that is now expanding its business into real-money online gambling, is today announcing a new heavyweight on its board of directors: John Doerr, a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase faces phishing attacks after data leak — Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase has publicly, and presumably accidentally, exposed information about its users' names, e-mail addresses, and details of their transactions on the Coinbase website.
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