| LG Optimus G Pro Now Available in Japan | | A smaller, 5-inch version of LG's Optimus G Pro is now available in Japan, LG has announced. Japan's Optimus G Pro is obviously not the same device as the 5.5-inch G Pro we've seen in Barcelona, which has so far only been available in Korea.
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| Overly Attached Boyfriend, Is That You? | | Overly Attached Girlfriend, meet your match. A new YouTube video called "ONE NIGHT misunderSTANDing" (get it?) shows an overeager suitor creeping out his just-met lady-friend following a casual encounter. While he's not Overly Attached Boyfriend of meme fame, he certainly deserves the moniker. Watch the entire video, above; then, let us know what you think in the comments.
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| Google Chrome for Android Updated With Autofill and Password Sync | | Google has updated its Chrome web browser for Android, adding several interesting upgrades. The new Google Chrome for Android enables users to access their saved passwords and have forms autofilled when they're signed into Chrome — just like the desktop version. This release also brings several stability improvements and a fix for blank-page loads in certain scenarios.
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| 'Arrested Development' Release Date Coming Soon | | 2:27:46 AM | Christina Warren |
| Taste the happy, Michael! Details for the global launch of the fourth season of Arrested Development are coming soon. The much-loved cult sitcom is making its small-screen return, thanks to Netflix. Last year at NAB Show, Netflix formally announced the return of the Bluths this year. At the Television Critics Association press tour in January, the release date was confirmed for May.
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| Facebook's New APIs Help Brands Monitor, Respond to Comment Replies | | Just a week after launching comment replies on Facebook, the social network updated its API Wednesday to help brands better monitor and respond to them. In a post on its developer blog, Facebook product engineer Alex Madjar says developers can now set up different comment "views" on posts. The first view is called "top level comments," which are standalone comments on a post that are not replies to individual comments.
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| Samsung Gets Its Own 'Stores' Inside Best Buy | | 1:15:15 AM | Christina Warren |
| Best Buy and Samsung have teamed up to bring special Samsung-branded sections to Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile. Dubbed the Samsung Experience Shop, the store-within-a-store offers customers a chance to explore and interact with Samsung's mobile products and accessories, as well as get help or training for Samsung mobile products they already own.
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| One Year Later, Half of Instagram's 100M Users Come From Android | | Within a year after launching its Android app, nearly half of all Instagram's user base comes from the Google-powered operating system. Instagram revealed this statistic in a blog post celebrating its one-year anniversary Wednesday. The popular photo-filtering and -sharing app currently has 100 million monthly active users.
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| Kareer.me Helps Recruiters Find Talent Before They Need It | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 11:03 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Kareer.me One-Liner Pitch: It's a discovery network for finding awesome employers — LinkedIn meets StumbleUpon. Why It's Taking Off: Company culture attracts the best applicants, and recruiters need a better way to show it off.
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| Portable Solar Charger Powers Up an iPhone in 2 Hours | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:28 PM | Charlie White |
| Solar chargers are getting even more convenient, and here's the latest example: This folding USB solar array from Brown Dog Gadgets captures power from the sun, delivered to you in a portable fold-up package. This Kickstarter project's products were all designed to be simple and cheap.
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| Why 'The Breakfast Club' Could Never Happen Today | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:31 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The Breakfast Club is a harrowing tale of five strangers breaking stereotypes and forming the bond of a lifetime. But at its core, it's just about detention and the lengths kids will go to to keep themselves entertained. It's an '80s flick through and through. Just ask the cast's hair.
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| YouTube Signs Major Music Deal With Universal | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:18 PM | The Daily Dot |
| YouTube's takeover of the pop music landscape appears to be going global. Music Weekly reported Wednesday that France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) and worldwide publishing powerhouse Universal Music Publishing have both reached international agreements with YouTube, the newest power player in the major music market.
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| California Wants Companies to Disclose Everything They Know About You | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:02 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Have you ever wondered how much personal information Google or Facebook has about you? If you have, you certainly wouldn't be the first one. In Europe, a student named Max Schrems requested that Facebook disclose all the information the social network had on him and he received a stack of 1,222 pages. In the United States there is no legal requirement for companies to disclose such information to their customers.
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| Exclusive: 'American Idol' Letting Viewers Pick Show Theme via Twitter | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:40 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| American Idol producers — for the first time in the show's 12-season run — will let the public determine one episode's theme this season, Idol's wireless sponsor AT&T exclusively told Mashable before Wednesday night's show. After host Ryan Seacrest makes the announcement during the April 3 performance show, people will be able to submit their suggestions on Twitter using hashtag #ATTIdolTheme.
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| What to Expect From Facebook's Android Announcement | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 5:01 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook is holding an event at its Menlo Park headquarters Thursday to show the world its “new home on Android.” No one is certain what exactly Facebook’s “new home” will be, but we’ve got a few a few solid hints.
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| TV Advertising Still Dominant, Still Growing | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:19 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Though the print and radio industries have both suffered from the rising popularity of online advertising, one industry remains immune: television. U.S. advertisers are expected to increase their spending on TV this year by nearly $2 billion to $66.35 billion, according to forecasts from eMarketer. By 2017, that number is expected to reach $75 billion, an increase of 14% over five years.
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| How to Make an Award-Worthy Vine Movie | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 3:28 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| You might be surprised at what can be done with six seconds of video, but the Tribeca Film Festival is going to find out. The New York-based festival has invited people to submit entries using Vine, an iPhone app that makes six-second, looping videos. Since the announcement last month, hundreds of entries have been posted to Vine using the official hashtag #6secfilms.
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| 20 GIFs That Prove Jon Hamm is the World's Greatest Man | | Wednesday, April 03, 2013 3:06 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Mad Men returns to TV sets this Sunday, which means that Jon Hamm returns to our living rooms — thank the AMC gods for that. The king of ad men has managed to capture our hearts in the last five seasons for several reasons and, no, not all of them are just because he can rock a suit like no other.
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