Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system  —  Blockbuster titles, Steven Spielberg-produced Halo TV series, and exclusive agreements with the NFL transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room.  —  A new vision for the future comes …

HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future  —  Internal upheaval comes at a bad time for the struggling phone maker  —  The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week.

GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award  —  Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs.

Flickr, Vimeo integration likely to bolster social ties in iOS 7  —  In the upcoming overhaul of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system, iOS 7, Apple plans to include an increased presence of third-party social networks, including Flickr and Vimeo, according to a person familiar with the software.

Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up  —  Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it.  But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased their usage in the past year …

Powermat Acquires Finland's PowerKiss, Stirs Up Wireless Power Standard War  —  In the unfolding standards battle around wireless power technology, two players will today combine into one.  —  Powermat, the company that last year allied with Procter & Gamble's Duracell brand …

Images: Amazon.com wants to build a massive biosphere in Seattle (perfect for workers and mature trees)  —  Amazon.com is charting a new course for one of its proposed downtown Seattle office buildings, unveiling new drawings this week which show a massive spherical greenhouse-like structure capable …

Urturn Raises $13.4M Series A, Led By Balderton, For Its Social Expressions Platform That Lets Teens Create Memes & Movements  —  Urturn, the social expressions platform that soft-launched as stealthily as possible last year by intentionally hiding under a really boring name …

AMD slips to fourth spot as Qualcomm and Samsung capitalize on mobile processor sales  —  A fall in demand for desktop PCs and continued growth of the smartphone and tablet market saw AMD fall from second to fourth place for microprocessor sales in 2012.  According to a new report from IC Insights …

Apple Tax Bill Overstated to Investors  —  Apple Inc.'s real tax bill isn't as big as the one it reports to its investors.  —  Among the findings of an investigation by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are figures that show Apple's reported taxes substantially exceed the sum it actually pays the U.S. Treasury.