One Microsoft: will Ballmer's big reset mean better products or more broken promises?  —  Redmond bets on tearing down the walls between Windows and Xbox  —  Microsoft has always been a giant castle with many fortresses.  Internal battles and power struggles have led individual divisions …

The Number Facebook Doesn't Want You To See  —  It turns out Facebook users drastically underestimate the size of their audiences.  Yes, everybody's there, but nobody is listening.  —  Image by John Herrman  —  For all our obsession with “likes,” comments, retweets, and reblogs …

Building a Better Dell: More R&D, Less PCs  —  Silver Lake is betting it and company founder can restore the computing icon to its former luster.  —  Private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners may soon be wagering $1.4 billion on a bet that many analysts think is sheer folly: To restore computing icon Dell Inc. to its former luster.

Stickers: From Japanese craze to global mobile messaging phenomenon  —  Japan-based mobile messaging company Line raised eyebrows in May when it revealed that it made $17 million from selling stickers during the first quarter of 2013.  Last year stickers were all but unknown in the West …

Why mobile web apps are slow  —  I've had an unusual number of interesting conversations spin out of my previous article documenting that mobile web apps are slow.  This has sparked some discussion, both online and IRL.  But sadly, the discussion has not been as... fact-based as I would like.

BlackBerry Z10 prices slashed across the board: $99 at Verizon and AT&T, $49 on Amazon  —  Looking for an excuse to try out BlackBerry's latest flagship?  Here's one: now it's cheap.  Folks willing to sign up for a usual two year agreement can score the BlackBerry Z10 for $99 at both AT&T and Verizon or a mere $49 at Amazon.

Uber Confirms It is Talking to Investors  —  Uber Technologies CEO Travis Kalanick is back at the negotiating table.  —  On Friday, he confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that the ride-on-demand company had begun speaking to investors about two weeks ago.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf talks online privacy, Google Glass and the future of libraries  —  From online banking to exploring the farthest reaches of the universe, it's difficult to imagine how we ever got by without the Internet.  —  We can work, study, order groceries, watch movies …

AT&T to Acquire Leap Wireless  —  AT&T and prepaid wireless provider Leap Wireless International have entered into an agreement for AT&T to acquire Leap for $15 per share in cash.  Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T will acquire all of Leap's stock and wireless properties, including licenses …

WellPoint fined $1.7 million for exposing health data on Internet  —  (Reuters) - Health insurer WellPoint Inc will pay $1.7 million for allowing health and other personal information from hundreds of thousands of people to be accessed over the Internet, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday.

Microsoft Sues U.S. Customs for Failed Google Phone Ban  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) filed a lawsuit today accusing U.S. Customs officials of refusing to follow a trade agency's order to block imports of phones made by Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Motorola Mobility unit.