Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: As Immigration Reform Bill Heads to the Senate Floor, the ZuckerPAC Gets a Win  —  Chalk up a win for tech industry talent-seekers.  —  In a bipartisan vote reached on Thursday evening, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that aims to radically overhaul much of current U.S. immigration policy …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge: Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes  —  webTV returns to Redmond... with a vengeance  —  “For the first time, you and your TV will have a relationship.”  —  That's how Microsoft began the introduction of its new Xbox One today …
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS, Android And BlackBerry 10 Developers  —  The barrier to entry for the Unity game rendering engine for developers on iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10 has gotten lower, as use of Unity tech is now free on both mobile platforms.
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Wall Street Journal: 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.
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David Pierce / The Verge: The all-seeing Kinect: tracking my face, arms, body, and heart on the Xbox One  —  “It's what's on the inside that counts” is something of an unofficial mantra of Microsoft's new Xbox One.  The Kinect is perhaps the best example: externally, it's more or less unchanged from its predecessor, but it's actually a very different device.
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Latest Google+ redesign comes to the mobile Web: Cover photos, larger tap targets, and card-based posts  —  Google on Tuesday announced a redesign of its Google+ social network for the mobile Web.  The revamp is meant to bring the mobile version of Google+ in line with the last redesign of the service.
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Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends  —  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, according to a new survey …
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: Domestic Mac Sales Flat in April (And That's Not Bad)  —  With the iPhone and iPad driving increasingly more of Apple's profits, the Mac is no longer the defining theme of the company's financial story that it once was.  Which is why new data suggesting that domestic Mac sales for the month …
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Chris Welch / The Verge: Boost Mobile launches mobile wallet app, offers prepaid Visa card for in-store purchases  —  In yet another sign of just how crowded the mobile payments market is becoming, Boost Mobile today launched its own mobile wallet app.  Dubbed (predictably) Mobile Wallet, the new service allows customers …
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Jennifer C. Kerr / Associated Press: Poll: Teens Migrating to Twitter  —  You are here  —  Home » Business » Poll: Teens migrating to Twitter  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook …
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Chandni Doulatramani / Reuters: Sony to assess spin-off proposal for entertainment business: Nikkei  —  (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering evaluating a proposal from top shareholder Third Point LLC to spin off part of its movie and music business, Japanese daily Nikkei reported.  —  Sony's U.S. listed shares rose 9 percent …
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John Cook / GeekWire: 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 …
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Xbox Wire: Xbox One: Your Top Questions Answered  —  Today is an exciting day for Xbox.  This morning we shared our vision for a new generation of games, TV and entertainment.  We wanted to address some top questions we've seen from our fans, so here we go.  Q: Does Xbox One require an “always on” Internet connection?
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Elena Berton / Reuters: France Tel to invest up to 50 million euro in Dailymotion: report  —  (Reuters) - France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros ($64 million) in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg: VMware's Web Services Challenge Cloud Rivals Amazon to Microsoft  —  VMware Inc. (VMW) is debuting a service that lets customers use the Web to access information and programs stored in its data centers, an effort to challenge Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in cloud computing.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD: Former Apple, Palm Executive Mike Bell to Head Intel's New Devices Unit  —  While it isn't going into detail about its plans for a new devices unit, Intel has tapped a leader whose expertise goes well beyond chips.  —  Mike Bell, who has been co-leading Intel's mobile chip business …
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Michael McWhertor / Polygon: Next-gen Xbox will not have always on requirements for single-player games  —  The newly announced Xbox One will not require a constant Internet connection for single-player gaming as was previously rumored, Microsoft announced today  —  While an “Always On” function isn't a requirement …
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Sean Hollister / The Verge: Xbox One will not be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games  —  If you were hoping to play your vast collection of Xbox 360 games on Microsoft's latest creation, we've got a spot of bad news.  Microsoft Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten confirmed to The Verge that the new Xbox One console will have no backwards compatibility whatsoever.
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Sharif Sakr / Engadget: Xbox One hardware and specs: 8-core CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB hard drive and more  —  Slot-loading Blu-ray drive?  Check.  HDMI in and out?  Absolutely, considering the Xbox One is meant to play a central role in the living room.  There's an octa-core processor based on AMD's Jaguar design …
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Chris Kohler / Wired: How Xbox One Plans to Fight Sony, Steam, and Everything Else  —  The other day, unable to take it anymore, we sucked it up and ordered HBO.  We needed our Game of Thrones fix immediately.  When the order went through and we were ready to binge-watch, it wasn't our cable box we turned on, but our Xbox.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: 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.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge: Microsoft brings live TV to Xbox One with voice navigation  —  Microsoft has announced TV for Xbox One, bringing a long-rumored live TV system to its next-generation console.  Saying “Xbox, watch TV” will turn on live TV, and it's possible to switch between TV and other Xbox systems.
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Microsoft: 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 …
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Sharif Sakr / Engadget: Xbox One runs three operating systems, including cut-down Windows for apps  —  The latest update out of the currently unfolding announcement in Redmond: the next-generation Xbox will run three operating systems simultaneously.  Complementing Windows 8 and RT on PCs and tablets …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Personal Profile Page Startup About.me Is Ready To Take Your Money With New Premium Service, Plans For Wefollow Integration  —  About.me, the online identity platform that spun out from Aol* at the beginning of the year before acquiring the one-time Digg spinout Wefollow …
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