As consumers move from computers to smartphones and tablets, ad dollars aren’t moving with them. Starting today Google plans to nudge advertisers along by requiring ad campaigns to be bought across all platforms. And remember the days when the name of a tech company actually reflected what the company did? Pets.com may have been a failure, but at least you knew what it was. Now there’s a new naming convention in town.

In Seattle, the world’s largest tunnel boring machine is about to get to work. Big Bertha — named for former city mayor Bertha Knight Landes — looks kind of like a giant, blue-tipped mechanical cigarette, except it’s way cooler. And, drones could be worth more dead than alive in Dear Trail, Colorado. The town is considering offering hunting licenses and $100 bounties for unmanned aerial vehicles.  

Quantum Dawn 2. No, it’s not the next James Bond movie. It’s a fire drill for big banks to test their defenses against hackers. Some 50 organizations will participate, from the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security, to Bank of America and Citigroup. And a six second Vine video will renew your belief that we are at our best when we work together. Not convinced? It also features a swimming pool, a trampoline, six basketball alley-oop passes and the best backyard slam dunk you’ve ever seen.

Big companies sponsor concert tours of big artists all the time. But here’s a strange marriage: Jonas Brothers and Chinese tech company Huawei. Huawei wants to be known in America for its new smartphones. But so far, it’s mostly famous in Congress. Lawmakers worry Huawei could be part of a vast Chinese spying conspiracy.

Yahoo’s President and CEO Marissa Mayer was appointed a year ago today. In that time, the former Google executive has been in the news plenty, from ending her company’s telecommuting policies to leading the purchase of blogging site Tumblr. So how’s she doing? And, there is an immigration debate raging in Washington right now. Even with its own set of highly paid lobbyists, it’s unclear if the tech world’s hopes for importing more talent from overseas will come true. But there has been some movement in the intense world of live video gaming events.

Electric car company Tesla has the best-performing auto stock in 2013 so far. Today the company is being bumped up to the NASDAQ-100 index. And new documents, leaked by Edward Snowden and reported in The Guardian newspaper, show how the NSA got Microsoft to circumvent its own encryption.

Microsoft has made official its long-rumored plans for a major reorganization. CEO Steve Ballmer’s plan reduces the company’s number of separate business divisions and puts new focus on devices — like the Surface tablet and the Xbox console. The gyroscope-balanced C1, made by San Francisco startup LIT Motors, is purposefully small and designed to change the rules of the road in cities. And on Sunday, India’s last official telegram will be sent from BSNL, the state-owned telecom company.

Microsoft is announcing plans today for a large-scale reorganization of top management. To what degree tablets and other mobile devices will play heavily into the reorganization isn’t clear yet. And there’s a new online trading game called Wall Street Magnate. Players are signing up in droves, in part, because the simulated experience reflects the stock market in real time. And a Twitter account that re-Tweets matching anagrams. The world is against you. No seriously, I want a dog.

Five years ago today Apple’s App store opened for the first time as an expansion of the company’s online marketplace iTunes. On its first day, there were only about 500 apps available. At five-years-old, it offers over 850,000. This week Apple’s been offering a bunch of its apps for free to celebrate. But that’s not actually all that unusual. The complex ecosystem of apps has gone through quite a pricing evolution.