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Facebook Home is beautiful, but what if your friends aren't?

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Facebook Home, a lock screen and launcher replacement for Android, looks very good. In fact, maybe it looks too good.

In the social network’s promo trailer for Home, you first witness a woman picking bright orange pumpkins in a field. A white digital clock typeface contrasts beautifully against the blue sky behind her. An image on Facebook’s Home website shows a woman donning a bright blue...

Samsung estimates $7.75 billion in Q1 profits, up 45 percent over last year

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Samsung is announcing its earnings estimate for Q1 2013, and everything seems to be on the upswing. The company thinks its operating profit will land between 8.5 and 8.9 trillion won ($7.56 - $7.92 billion) for the quarter — that’s a big increase over the 5.85 trillion won the company pulled in during the same quarter last year. Revenues are also up, from 45.27 trillion won a year ago to somewhere between 51 and 53 trillion ($45.39 - $47.17 billion) this time around.

More money and more money

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HTC First with Facebook Home hands-on (video)

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The HTC First is, of course, the "first" phone to launch with Facebook Home built in as its core skin. It is, without a doubt, a mid-range Android device — but it seems sturdy and probably able to bounce around in your bag without taking much damage. It's running on AT&T's 4G LTE network and launching on April 12th for $99.99, but is available for pre-order today. The device has a 4.3-inch 720p display, a 1.4 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 16GB of storage and 1GB of...

Facebook will put ads in Home for Android, just not at launch

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Facebook has often been coy about its monetization strategies, but the company has confirmed that ads will be coming to Home for Android, the launcher it debuted today. "There are no ads in this yet, I'm sure that one day there will be," said Mark...


Facebook Home coming to Android tablets within 'several months'

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Facebook's new Home launcher for Android will be coming to tablets, the company has just said. After demonstrating a series of social features, including "Chat heads" messaging and a redesigned news feed, Facebook said that Home would hit Android tablets within "several months." For now, that version is still in development, making Home phone-only when it hits the Play Store on April 12th.

Described as "mobile best," Home takes advantage of...

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HTC and Facebook announce the First smartphone with AT&T;, arriving April 12th for $99.99

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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 and HTC have partnered up on — back in 2011, HTC released the ChaCha, Status, and Salsa, all of which had special Facebook integration. But the First comes with Facebook's new Home launcher out of the box, offering a much richer Facebook experience...

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