As part of Microsoft’s widely-anticipated restructuring, Skype president Tony Bates could reportedly be put in charge of acquisitions and relationships with software developers. “Ballmer may also give Windows chief Julie Larson-Green oversight of hardware engineering for the whole company,” Bloomberg reports, referring to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The reorganization could be announced as early as next week. 

Suggesting the existence of a new feature, some Twitter users are receiving "Embedded on these Web sites" messages. "Has Twitter always shown where particular tweets are embedded on?" security expert Mikko Hypponen tweeted on Monday. Notes PC Mag: “It is unclear whether this was meant as an internal trial run, or is the beginning of a slow rollout to users.” 

Keeping its promise to more deeply integrate search into its various services and third-party offerings, Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8.1 is search rich. “Bing's presence in Windows 8 will no longer be felt through a series of apps, but rather from the very search experience that Windows users utilize every day,” The Verge reports. 

The Federal Trade Commission this week rolled out its revised regulations aimed at protecting the privacy of children online. “The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 restricts Web sites from knowingly collecting personal information from children younger than 13 years of age,” The Hill’s Hillicon Valley blog reports. “The FTC voted last year to expand the regulations to cover games, apps and ad networks.” 

Foursquare is entering into a partnership with Deezer today to incentivize its users to check-in more often at live music events. “The partnership points to a much wider play from Foursquare to incentivize check-ins at events,” The Next Web reports. The location-based social network added event check-ins last December. 

Though only prototypes, The New York Times investigates some so-called “stealth-wear,” which are clothing and accessories designed to protect the wearer from detection and surveillance. Flying surveillance cameras, advances in facial-recognition technology, wearable devices like Google Glass, and the disclosures of Edward Snowden are all adding what NYT calls “the fervor.”

As expected, Microsoft appears to have rolled out Xbox Music for the open Web. “Xbox Music Pass subscribers can access the Web player from music.xbox.com, with a responsive design that adapts to your browser size,” The Verge reports. “The Web player is very similar to the recently redesigned Windows 8.1 Xbox Music app.”

In the last three months, Android-powered smartphones accounted for more than 70% of sales in Europe’s five biggest markets, including Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, according to new findings from Kantar Worldpanel. “The secondary story here is that much of this success is being led by Samsung, which now accounts for nearly half of all smartphones sold in the region,” TechCrunch reports.

Shaking up the mobile marketplace, The first Firefox OS-based handsets are nearly ready to make their public debut. “Mozilla announced the regional launches of several Firefox OS-based devices on Monday, confirming that the first retail version smartphones will go on sale with some …