Encouraging more innovation among tech companies, the Obama administration this week said it planned to crack down on so-called “patent trolls,” or patent-holding companies that seemingly produce nothing but lawsuits. “The trolls -- or patent assertion entities, to use the White House’s less catchy and more presidential term -- threatened 100,000 companies with lawsuits last year alone,” Bloomberg Business reports, citing a report issued along with the White House’s proposals. 

Next week, Apple, Google and other cellphone makers will get to chance to explain why they haven’t done more to address a rise in the theft of their products. States officials, including New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, are expected to grill company representatives about why “they have not yet developed technology that renders stolen mobile devices inoperable, eliminating the incentive for theft," per The Huffington Post. 

Facebook has signed a 10-year lease to move its New York office into a new, 100,000-square-foot space in Downtown Manhattan. Located at 770 Broadway, “Facebook NY’s engineering, design, marketing, sales, and comms teams will move there in early 2014,” TechCrunch reports. 

Sure to disappoint a passionate minority, Google is forbidding racy content from being featured on Google Glass. “We don’t allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit material,” according to Google’s Glass platform developer policies. As TechHive reports, they were updated Saturday to offer more information about what developers can and cannot do with the software they make for Glass. 

Coinciding with the release of its music-streaming service, Apple is reportedly ready to change its mobile ad strategy. “Engineers and sales staff in Apple’s iAd business have been charged with supporting the new digital-radio service,” Bloomberg reports. “The music service won’t be publicly available until later this year, when Apple’s iOS 7 mobile-operating system is released.”

Blaming its immature mobile strategy, Zynga is drastically cutting costs, including reducing its workforce by nearly 20%. The goal, as AllThingsD reports, is to “more drastically restructure its troubled business toward mobile.” Put another way, “This is a ‘right-sizing’ of Zynga to reflect a more somber reality that these mobile businesses are not as large as its Web-based one.” 

Stateside, Android-supported smartphones accounted for 51.7% of all phone sales during the three-month period ending in April, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel. Apple’s 41.4% share was good enough for second place. “Although Google’s mobile operating system gained 1.4 percentage points year-over-year, both Apple and Microsoft have seen higher gains year-over-year,” The Next Web notes. 

As expected, Yahoo is killing its classic mail service, this week. “Users who choose to upgrade to the new interface will have to agree to Yahoo's updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy,” Engadget reports. The new ToS includes: "the acceptance of automated content scanning and analyzing of your communications content, which Yahoo users to deliver product features, relevant advertising and abuse protection." 

Microsoft has been on a mission to transform into a “devices and services company” since last year. Now, the software giant is reportedly considering a major overhaul to achieve that goal. “CEO Steve Ballmer is working on what is likely to turn into a significant restructuring,” AllThingsD reports. “What seems likely is an organizational structure that will focus on configuring Microsoft around devices and services.” 

If not quite like wild fire, Vine is spreading. Twitter’s video-sharing iOS app has been downloaded roughly 13 million times since late January, TechCrunch reports. Sure to spur further growth, Twitter just released Vine for Android devices. “The Vine app for Android arrives just about five months after it arrived on iPhone, when Twitter launched the app back in late January after acquiring the startup behind Vine earlier.”