New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS  —  For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.  Pichai, a Googler since 2004, would present on behalf of Google's Chrome division …

Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista - Color Kindle to Follow?  —  For the past four months I have been saying that Amazon was in the market to buy Samsung's screen tech company Liquavista, and today I do believe the rumors have come true.  —  New filings from the Netherlands Chamber …

You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence  —  It's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business.  Today I will tell a story that I love telling.  It has some of my favorite people in it.  —  Back in 2004, early in my blogging career, I heard about a service that had just launched called Feedburner.

Facebook Home flagship phone, HTC First, may be discontinued  —  Facebook's HTC First, the smartphone herald of Facebook Home, will be discontinued by carrier partner AT&T, according a report from BGR Monday.  The phones, released just over a month ago, will be returned as unsold inventory to HTC …

Google Unifies Its Free And Paid Storage Options, Gives You 15GB To Share Between Drive, Gmail And Google+ Photos  —  Until now, you've had to track your free storage on Google products separately.  It was just another thing that Google hadn't brought together to make it easier on users.

Verizon Wireless to pay parents surprise $7 billion dividend  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Monday it would pay its parents Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc a dividend of $7 billion in June, surprising some analysts who had not expected a big payout.

France weighs ‘culture tax’ for Apple, Google products  —  (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande will decide by the end of July whether France should impose new taxes on technology giants like Apple and Google to finance cultural projects, a move that could feed into an anti-business image days after a spat with Yahoo!.

Twitter Acquires Big Data Visualization Startup Lucky Sort, Service To Shutter In Months Ahead  —  Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based startup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter.

Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of Deleting Your Facebook Account  —  If you want a digital detox, you're going to have to pull the trigger yourself.  Social Roulette is an app that would delete one in six users' Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it's …

Icahn, Southeastern reveal board nominees as Dell seeks more info  —  (Reuters) - Dell Inc's special board committee on Monday asked activist investor Carl Icahn for details of his plan to buy the computer maker, including how he would finance a cash payout to shareholders and who would run …

Amazon Now Offers Amazon Coins Virtual Currency On Kindle Fire, Gives $5 In Free Coins To All Users  —  E-commerce leviathan Amazon today is taking a step into social gaming: Amazon Coins, its new virtual currency, is now live in the U.S. To kick it off, Amazon announced that it would put $5 worth …

ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration  —  ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service, part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter hunt for new advertising revenue.

Apple, Google Pressed by N.Y. Over Handheld Device Thefts  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) are among technology companies being asked by the New York attorney general to take steps to deter thefts of iPhones and other handheld devices and eliminate a black market for the products.

Facebook, Waze at odds over liquidation  —  Social network giant insists on relocating some of Israeli navigation company's employees to its San Francisco headquarters, while Waze executives are adamant about leaving development center in Israel  —  The chasm between Facebook and Waze …

Path Product Management Director Dylan Casey Departs for Yahoo  —  Dylan Casey, director of product management at Path, has left the company and will soon join Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the matter.  —  Update 9:29 am PT: And Casey has confirmed his new job via Twitter …

Amazon Cloud Player Launches PC App  —  As part of its mission to bring its music service “everywhere,” Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday.  The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehicles.

Google Launches Content Recommendation Engine For Mobile Sites, Powered By Google+  —  Google continues to increase the reach of its Google+ platform, and today the company is launching a new mobile content recommendation service powered by Google+.  These recommendations will appear …

Intelligent To Do List App Any.DO Raises $3.5 Million, Will Further Expand Into Personal Productivity Space  —  Q: Why does a to do list application need $3.5 million in funding?  A: Because it's becoming more than a simple to do app.  Today, Any.DO one of the more popular to do list applications …

Microsoft rolls out new SkyDrive timeline and filmstrip views, speeds up photo upload time three-fold, and more  —  Microsoft on Monday announced new features and improvements for its SkyDrive cloud storage service, with a particular focus on photos.  The updates are available starting now …

Twitter Boss Quits UK Role Post TweetDeck  —  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned as director of its UK arm  —  The American boss of Twitter has resigned as director of its UK arm, two days after the business regulator struck off its other British firm for failure to file accounts.

Let the ‘5G’ confusion begin: Samsung demos ultra-fast wireless with bad branding  —  Samsung sullies technological milestone with 5G fluff  —  Samsung made some noise this morning with the announcement that it has successfully tested “the world's first 5G mmWave Mobile Technology” network.