Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2013 Results  —  Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the second quarter, which ended June 30, 2013.  —  “We've made good progress growing our community, deepening engagement and delivering strong financial results, especially on mobile …

From TVs to tablets: Everything you love, across all your screens  —  When I was growing up, my family had a single screen we huddled around every day: the television set in the living room.  Nowadays, we “huddle” around multiple screens—laptops, smartphones and tablets …

Android 4.3 announced, rolling out to Nexus devices today  —  Google's famously breakneck Android update pace may have slowed in recent times, but that's what makes point upgrades like today's newly revealed Android 4.3 all the more interesting.  Shipping with the new Nexus 7 and retaining …

Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230  —  When we reviewed the Nexus 7 last summer, we said it was the best tablet $200 could buy.  A year later, that still might be true if it wasn't for the fact that there's a new Nexus 7 in town.

Xbox One retail consoles double as debug units, Microsoft to allow indie self-publishing  —  Microsoft's Xbox One is getting decidedly more indie-friendly with today's confirmation from Microsoft that its forthcoming game console will double as a developer debug unit.

Chipotle Faked Its Twitter Hack  —  Chipotle appeared to be the latest brand to have its Twitter account hacked on Sunday when its main account, @ChipotleTweets, posted a series of confusing and seemingly random tweets over the course of an hour.  Now, the company has come forward and admitted …

Google will pay for free wireless in S.F. parks  —  Ali LeBel (foreground) adjusts her smart phone in Alamo Square Tuesday July 23, 2013, one of the locations where new wireless will be added.  Google will pay to install wireless access in 31 San Francisco parks, a donation brokered …

Blueprints Of NSA's Ridiculously Expensive Data Center In Utah Suggest It Holds Less Info Than Thought  —  The NSA data center in Utah will be up and running by the end of September  —  For the last two months, we've been bombarded with stories about the information-collection practices …

Head of BlackBerry's PlayBook Tablet Is Leaving  —  David J. Smith Has Resigned as the Tablet Is No Longer Supported  —  A senior BlackBerry Ltd. executive who was in charge of the largely unsuccessful PlayBook tablet is leaving the company.  —  David J. Smith, an executive vice president …

EA made more money on Apple's App Store than through Origin  —  Updated at 2:40 p.m. — corrected inaccurate comparison to platforms.  —  The mobile-based future is here, and publisher Electronic Arts is reaping the rewards.  EA reported today that it made more money through Apple's App Store than any other retail distributor.

Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys  —  Whether the FBI or NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying.  —  Large Internet companies have resisted …

June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84%  —  Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.

Exclusive: Zulily hires banks for possible IPO - sources  —  (Reuters) - Zulily hired investment banks in recent weeks to advise the fast-growing e-commerce company on a possible initial public offering, according to two people familiar with the situation.  —  Zulily, a “flash sales” …

Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform  —  What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform?  —  Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.