ATD’s Staff Sounds Off on Facebook Home and the HP Pocket

A collection of this week’s media hits from around the Web featuring the staff of AllThingsD.
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This Week in Video for ATD: Facebook Redesigns News Feed, Roku Gets a New Box, and the White House Favors Phone Unlocking

A quick rundown of video appearances by AllThingsD staffers.
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Leap Wireless to Spin Off Muve Music Unit

Leap, which offers service under the Cricket brand, launched the on-demand music service in January 2011. By creating a new company, Leap hopes to license the service to other carriers and has an agreement in principle with an unnamed international wireless carrier, spokesman Greg Lund said.

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iPhone 5 Gets China Network Access License

Looks like Apple Inc.’s iPhone 5 may be coming to China soon.

iWitness Reports: Walt on the iPhone 5, Katie on iOS 6 (Video)

AllThingsD’s Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret talk about the latest from Apple.
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Yahoo and Facebook Patent War Officially Over: The Press Release

We now can go back to our regularly scheduled fighting between Facebook and Google, Google and Apple, Apple and Amazon, Amazon and … oh, you get my point here.
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Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation

The largest e-commerce site in Japan is about to get pinned by Ben Silbermann in massive funding round.
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It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”
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AllThingsD Reviews HP’s Ultrabook, the Envy Spectre 14, on WSJ “Digits”

AllThingsD’s Lauren Goode joins the WSJ “Digits” show to discuss her review of HP’s Ultrabook.
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