Today it’s Samsung’s turn to tell the world just how it did last quarter. The South Korean tech giant has become a successful competitor to Apple, selling tons of tablets, phones and more. But like Apple, its recent success means an ever higher bar of expectation, from profits to innovation. And yesterday Facebook’s stock was up on good earnings news, but another Facebook story from this week caught our eye. It’s about the developing world, where Facebook wants to be the portal for mobile users connecting to the Internet without a smartphone.

A group of Google engineers inadvertently takes down a ring of car thieves in China. And any kid who loves playing with remote controlled drones now has a vocation to shoot for: deep sea explorer. The company Odyssey Marine Exploration has pulled 61 tons of silver bars off a cargo ship sunk by Nazis in 1941. Drones helped haul the silver up from the SS Gairsoppa which was three miles underwater off the coast of Ireland.

Apple has released its latest business results and they are better than many analysts expected. And, there are two sides to the Internet: the mainstream and the underground. What happens when the underground gets gobbled up by the mainstream? For one thing, it means online pornography gets pushed further to the margins of the web.

Apple releases its latest business results, and as usual, the news will be all about the iPhone. Apple’s smartphone and iPad tablet are both, in tech years, practically geriatric. When it comes to the bottom line, Apple has traditionally done best when it innovates. So the question is, can the company deliver a new and revolutionary gadget? And, nearly half a billion mobile phone SIM cards might be vulnerable to hacking.  

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.