Microsoft Announces Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows  —  Microsoft-made hardware to be available starting with release of Windows 8 and Windows RT.  —  Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows.

Spotify Finally Launches Web Radio, For Real.  And That's a Problem For Pandora  —  A lot of people confuse Spotify's streaming music service with Pandora's streaming music service.  —  Now they're going to be a lot more confused.  In a way that's good for Spotify and a problem for Pandora.

Google partners with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams to the app  —  Speaking at Le Web '12 in London, Google's Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz announced that it has partnered with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams in the app.  The streams will launch soon.

Awesome News - Facebook Acquires Face.com  —  Facebook has acquired Face.com!  Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fun, engaging part of people's lives, and incorporate remarkable technology into everyday consumer products.

Prominent Investors Miss Web IPO Payoff  —  For venture capitalists and other prominent investors in young companies, an initial public offering is supposed to be the big payoff for years of patience.  It's not working out that way for some backers of newly public Internet companies.

Ex-AT&T employee admits leaking Apple, RIM info  —  (Reuters) - A former AT&T (T.N) employee admitted on Monday to sharing company secrets such as sales numbers for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone to traders who illegally bought shares on the information.  —  Alnoor Ebrahim, 57 …

MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Teardown  —  In case you missed it, we tore apart the new MacBook Pro with Retina display last week.  Inside, we found a whole mess of pretty, yet difficult to access components.  In fact, the MacBook Pro with Retina display earned our lowest repairability score ever, with 1 out of 10 points.

Nokia 808 PureView announced for US, available soon through Amazon at $699  —  Color us surprised — or whatever the antonym of that word may be — but Nokia has announced the availability of its 41-megapixel 808 PureView smartphone for the United States, which will be distributed through Amazon.

Readability by the Numbers  —  Last week, Readability CEO Richard Ziade announced that Readability's acceptance of reader fees and their publisher payment system is ending.  In that announcement Ziade shares a few statistics about the service.  Ziade also shared some statistics during …

Box Expands to Europe, Hires Infrastructure VP Away from LinkedIn  —  There's always something interesting going on at Box.  Last I looked in on it, the fast-growing enterprise cloud service startup had just moved into new headquarters in Los Altos, Calif. though employees there were trying to coin the name “South Palo Alto.”

Don't Look Now, But Facebook's Stock Is Up 20% In 2 Weeks!  —  Remember two weeks ago, when Facebook's stock had crashed all the way to ~$25?  —  Yes, back then, everyone was absolutely certain that it was going to, say, $18, and they were telling everyone who would listen about that.

Sharp partners with design agency frog to launch Feel UX, another unique Android user interface  —  Sharp has become the latest in a long line of Android smartphone makers to announce that it is to build a customized user interface for the platform, partnering with design agency ‘frog’ to launch “Feel UX” later this summer.

Apple, Google Push Deeper Into Mobile Software; Towering Over Nokia, Research In Motion  —  Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have brought mobile giants Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. to their knees and captured more than 80% of the world's smartphone market.  Now they are going after the rest.

Apple removes hints of future products from a key file in iOS 6  —  Once upon a time eager rumormongers would download the latest iteration of the next generation of iOS, and like examining goat entrails to determine the next Caesar, they would delve into the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist to divine upcoming hardware products from Apple.

Royalties From Digital Radio Start to Add Up  —  After more than a decade, the royalties for Internet radio and other digital music streams are finally starting to add up.  —  On Monday, SoundExchange, a nonprofit group that processes payments for online streams, will announce …

Codecademy gets new money from Index, Kleiner Perkins, & Richard Freaking Branson  —  Sir Richard Branson: When he's not figuring out commercial space travel, he's making it rain on the kids from Codecademy.  Gotta love the guy.  —  Branson is just one of a whole school of big fish who've chipped …

Meet the group trying to make AT&T very un-AT&T-like  —  A flat-panel display welcomes visitors to AT&T's foundry in Palo Alto, Calif.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Just a short bicycle ride from Stanford University, there's a work space befitting any hip startup.