Friday, April 5, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // April 5, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 5, 2013

Facebook Home: The Winners And Losers

If Facebook Home flies -- and that's a pretty big if -- Zuckerberg's freshly announced landgrab for Android owners' eyeballs, is going to create a lot of... read more

Android Launchers Are A Small Market, Can Facebook Home Change That?

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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... read more

You're Not Supposed To Want Facebook Home...Yet

Making you feel comfortable didn't get Facebook to a billion users. It had to push your limits of "open and connectedness". That's why so many of its product... read more

Ultra-Hot Secret Sharing App Whisper Raises $3 Million From Lightspeed, Trinity, And Others

If you haven't heard of Whisper yet, get ready to. It's the latest social app to capture the attention of a huge — and growing — audience of users, as... read more

The BlackBerry Q10 Is Now Available For Pre-Order In The UK

Good news, Steve O'Hear. The physical QWERTY isn't dead! The BlackBerry Q10 is now available for pre-ordering in the UK and ships at the end of the month.... read more

Myntra Buys Fitiquette, A Disrupt Finalist With A Virtual Fitting Room, As India's Online Fashion Market Heats Up

Fitiquette, a developer of virtual fitting room technology and a TC Disrupt finalist in September 2012, has been acquired by Myntra, one of the big fashion and... read more

Apple's iPhone Continues To Show Strong Growth In The U.S., Samsung And Android Adoption Slow

Apple's trajectory in the U.S. smartphone market over the past little while has been an upwards one, with the company gaining more and more iPhone subscribers... read more

Ketchup Helps You Determine Which Friends Actually Want To Spend Time With You

Do you ever feel like you're always talking about plans to go here or hang out with so-and-so, but you're never actually doing most of those things?... read more

Couldn't Make It To SXSW? Now You Can Learn About Google Glass And The Mirror API On YouTube

I'd wager that most of you reading this didn't make it out to Austin for SXSW, and even fewer of you still have ever gotten some hands-on time with Google's... read more

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