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get ready for another take on the facebook phone I'm Bridget Carey and this is your seen that update facebook may soon announce its working with HTC to create a phone with a modified version of Android that has built-in Facebook features facebook invited press to an announcement on Thursday April fourth and it has something to do with Facebook's new home on Android we're expecting to see a phone with software that has more integration with Facebook apps like messenger or it has more options to share things to Facebook back in 2011 HTC unveiled to Facebook phones that had a dedicated blue button for quick access to Facebook they were called the HTC chacha and the HTC salsa but both phones were a total flop path a social network more private than Facebook is working on a subscription service to launch sometime in the second quarter path is an app that's marketed to be the social network for only your closest friends and family it encourages you to post more than you normally would on Facebook such as constant updates about your location path is following the footsteps of apps like Evernote and Spotify to create a premium paid product alongside the free version but when I spoke to paths founder Dave Morin he wouldn't reveal what users would be paying for paths started taking payments a while ago with photo filters that cost a buck in the recent update the app added cartoon character stickers to be used in private messages and it costs two dollars for a pack of those stickers Morin said the app made more money in character stickers in the first week than it did with photo filters in the past year amazon is buying the book recommendation network goodreads soon the network that discusses books will be able to buy the books they talk about and it's another way for authors to find me readers you might even see Goodreads woven into the Kindle e-reader a change in Microsoft's Windows 8 screen resolution requirements gives us a clue that we could soon see 7 inch mini tablets running Windows 8 the 7-inch tablet market was huge during the holidays last year with the ipad mini Google Nexus 7 and the am on kindle fire we're keeping our eye on ouya the new android based game console the cube-shaped Booya costs ninety nine dollars and includes one controller all the games are downloaded and you can sample all the games for free before you buy it's officially launching in June but cnet got an early look this is a neat system for discovering independent games or if you're looking for a cheaper way to play games on your television you're not getting PlayStation quality games here these are simple and low budget you can also make your own games if you know how to program that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update and be sure to follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey