Microsoft to Acquire Yammer  —  Microsoft extends cloud services with best-in-class enterprise social networking.  —  Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash.

Nexus 7: This Is Google's New Nexus Tablet  —  Wondering what Google's flagship I/O Conference announcement this week should look like?  Wonder no longer.  It's a 7-inch Tegra 3 tablet running Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, and it's set to hit Australia from July.

Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors  —  Facebook announced today that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, has joined the company's board of directors.  —  Sandberg oversees Facebook's business operations including sales, marketing, business development …

New iPhone prototypes have NFC chips and antenna  —  We've previously been able to pull data from PreEVT iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes codenamed N41AP (5,1) and N42AP (5,2), which leads us to believe that the new iPhone will have a bigger 1136×640 display.

Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity  —  In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Mac computers, Apple has removed a statement from its messages on its website that Mac operating system X (OS X) isn't susceptible to viruses.  —  Apple removed the previous statement …

Facebook forces all users over to @facebook.com e-mail addresses  —  Facebook began its jaunt as an e-mail service in November 2010, when it started allowing users to make @facebook.com addresses and receive conventional e-mails addressed there in their messages inboxes.

Apple To Feature Yelp Check-Ins Within IPhone Maps App  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s coming iPhone map application will include Yelp Inc. (YELP)'s “check-in” feature to let users broadcast their whereabouts to friends, according to materials Apple distributed to software developers.

Microsoft: We Won't Build Own Windows Phones  —  Microsoft exec categorically denies reports that the company plans to bring its Surface tablet strategy to the smartphone market.  —  A Microsoft executive said the company has no plans to manufacture its own company-branded smartphones …

165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps  —  Today we're thrilled to announce the publication of our largest satellite release to date.  In fact, this release is larger than all of our past Aerial releases combined!  —  The latest Aerial release includes new Satellite imagery as well as Global Ortho photography.

Exclusive: BlackBerry 10 L-Series (All Touch) & N-Series (QWERTY) UI, Specs  —  BlackBerry 10 is upon us, as we expect RIM to make a formal announcement for the first device in August.  Details regarding the BlackBerry 10 operating have been mildly out in the open.

With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps  —  SEATTLE — Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products.  —  Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple …

Google updates Gmail iOS app with Notification Center support, persistent login  —  The official Gmail client for iOS has been updated today with support for Notification Center, meaning you can now configure the app to display banners, alerts, and lock screen previews of your latest emails.

Facebook pulls ‘find friends nearby’ experimental feature after less than 24 hours in the wild  —  As quickly as it came, Facebook's skunkworks “Find Friends Nearby” feature is no longer working, ABC News reports.  What originally started as a hackathon project by Facebook engineer Ryan Patterson …

Google introduces new I/O live blogging tool  —  Just days ahead of the yearly Google I/O event, Google has introduced a rather interesting live blogging tool that taps into Google+ page posts and pulls from the I/O live video feed.  —  This tool, which you can see below, is currently not event agnostic.

Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams carry 2.5 terabits per second  —  American and Israeli researchers have used twisted, vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second.  As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless network ever created — by some margin.

Google Offers And Boingo Bring Free WiFi To Manhattan This Summer  —  In a world where limits go down and pricing goes up, there's nothing better than free connectivity.  —  Boingo Wireless, in collaboration with Google Offers, is bringing free WiFi to over 200 locations in New York City this summer.

Simplifying How We Work  —  Simple.  —  Everywhere, people aspire to simplicity.  In their lives, at work, and at every interaction.  At PayPal, we want to make the lives of our customers at lot better by reducing the distance between what they want, and what they get.

Instagram 2.5 for iPhone adds Explore section, revamps Profile tab, integrates Facebook Likes  —  Instagram for iPhone just hit version 2.5, which marks the first time the app has been updated since Facebook agreed to acquire it back in April.  Instagram 2.5 is mostly a visual update …

Firefox ‘new tab’ feature exposes users' secured info: Fix promised  —  Unlucky version 13 not ideal, Mozilla admits  —  Privacy-conscious users have sounded the alarm after it emerged the “New Tab” thumbnail feature in Firefox 13 is “taking snapshots of the user's HTTPS session content”.

Pinterest to launch on Android at Google IO?  —  I've just been looking around the Google IO app — released earlier this week.  I was checking out the list of Android related exhibitors who will be at Google IO and found an entry for Pinterest.  As you can see from the screenshot I took …

Apple Chomps At App Store Search?  Developers See Shift In Search Results  —  Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers.  If you're a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name to help with visibility …

Facebook Messenger 1.8 for iPhone and Android adds quick conversation switching, larger photos  —  Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android just hit version 1.8, bringing a few slick new features like fast conversation switching, swipe-to-delete for specific messages, and a built-in buddy list for who's …

Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 Wi-Fi coming to US week of July 16th, starts at $499  —  Asus' Transformer Pad Infinity, first announced as the Transformer Prime TF700T way back at CES in January, is headed to US shores during the week of July 16th.  The tablet was renamed …