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AppGratis Gets the Boot & WhatsApp Ain’t Selling: The AllThingsD Week in Review 4/07/13 — 4/13/13

do-not-wantFor our readers who are not inclined to constantly hit the refresh button, here’s a quick look back at the Top 10 stories that drove AllThingsD this week:

  1. Apple’s Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown
  2. Confirmed: Apple Kicks AppGratis Out of the Store for Being Too Pushy
  3. Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million
  4. WhatsApp: We’re Not Selling to Google
  5. Twitter’s New Music App Launches Friday
  6. BlackBerry Tops iPhone and Android … In a “Don’t Want” Poll
  7. Salesforce Just Made Another Quiet Acquisition
  8. [note: this article is from February, but resurfaced this week]

  9. PC Sales Show Biggest Q1 Decline Ever
  10. California Court: Even Checking Maps on Phone While Driving Not Okay
  11. News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox off the Airwaves if Aereo Wins

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus