News: 2014-04-24

Study: Samsung’s Apps Are Ubiquitous but Unloved – Digits – WSJ

Facebook Beats In Q1 With $2.5B In Revenue, 59% Of Ad Revenue From Mobile, 1.28B Users | TechCrunch

Facebook Posts Earnings Beat as Mobile Soars Past One Billion Monthly Users | Re/code

Facebook now has more than a billion mobile users every month | The Verge

Apple Acquired 24 Companies In The Last 18 Months | TechCrunch

Feds Beg Supreme Court to Let Them Search Phones Without a Warrant | Threat Level | WIRED

Apple Sold 44M iPhones, 16M iPads And 4M Macs In Q2 2014 | TechCrunch

Why the Housing Market Has Slowed – Real Time Economics – WSJ

BBC News – Japan to build military site near disputed Senkaku islands

Uber now operates in 100 cities worldwide

Uber Has Launched in Its 100th City, Beijing | Re/code

Talixo, Yet Another European Taxi App Startup, Gets Backed | TechCrunch

Labor force dropouts are dragging down wages – Vox

Piketty’s Tax Hikes Won’t Help the Middle Class – Bloomberg View

The bizarre reality of the US housing market: Home sales are tanking, and prices are soaring – Quartz

U.S. New-Home Sales Plunge 14.5% in March – WSJ.com

Calculated Risk: Wednesday: New Home Sales

The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest – NYTimes.com

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