Do Things that Don't Scale  —  One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.  A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't.  You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised.

Motorola Moto X being released in August in Black and White - Always on voice commands  —  A video from Toronto, Canada based Rogers Wireless has appeared on Google+ user Ð" page and shows off the long awaited Motorola Moto X. The video also shows off the always on voice commands and other features of the phone.

Has Patent, Will Sue: An Alert to Corporate America  —  If you're a corporate executive, this may be one of the last sentences you want to hear: “Erich Spangenberg is on the line.”  Invariably, Mr. Spangenberg, the 53-year-old owner of IPNav, is calling to discuss a patent held by one of his clients …

Apple ‘Aggressively’ Hiring for Smart Watch Project, Looking Toward Late 2014 Launch  —  Financial Times reports that Apple is “aggressively” hiring new employees to help with its smart watch effort, suggesting that the company needs additional expertise to tackle the project's challenges.

Microsoft chops Surface RT price to $349  —  One Microsoft bull urges consumers to take a pass, even at that price  —  Microsoft on Sunday slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by as much as 30%, with the entry-level 32GB model selling for $349.  —  The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150 …

Attention Shopper: Stores Are Tracking Your Cell  —  Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers, Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers — how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors — the kind of information that e-commerce sites like Amazon have in spades.

Inside The Massive Global Black Market For Smartphones  —  Before a federal SWAT team descended last summer, one storefront in a Detroit suburb attracted so many people bearing shopping bags stuffed with iPhones and iPads that managers installed a port-a-potty on the sidewalk.

Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Computer Flaws  —  On the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta, two Italian hackers have been searching for bugs — not the island's many beetle varieties, but secret flaws in computer code that governments pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn about and exploit.

A New Way for Musicians to Make Money on YouTube  —  In 2001, composer Scott Schreer wrote a roughly two-minute saxophone-heavy acid jazz instrumental called Love Doctor, and the song lives in an online catalogue of music that he licenses to film and TV producers.

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 …

Google delays building of new campus  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google (GOOG) has delayed for up to a year construction of a massive campus at the NASA-Ames research center in Mountain View, apparently because the tech titan seeks to improve the design of the complex.

Let The Games Begin  —  That was my partner John's email response when the news came across our internal email list that the SEC had finally lifted the General Solicitation Ban as they were asked to do by Congress in Title II of the JOBS act.  —  What this means is that folks raising capital …

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 …