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Daniel Geiger / Crain’s New York Business: Facebook looking to relocate in NYC, sources say  —  The social networking giant is negotiating to take 160,000 square feet at 770 Broadway in midtown south at a time when other tech firms are migrating downtown because rents have been rising in the tech-heavy neighborhood.

Facebook looking to relocate in NYC, sources say (Daniel Geiger/Crain’s New York Business) SoyLaOstia

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Steve Lohr / New York Times: Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions  —  More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000.  He passed.  Any regrets?  Not really, he said.  —  “Of course,” Mr. Spicer added …

Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions (Steve Lohr/New York Times) SoyLaOstia

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web: More than a year after its shutdown, Google to move all Buzz posts to its Drive service on July 17  —  Google is taking the “last step” in its shutdown of its Google Buzz product.  Starting July 17, the company announced in an email that all posts will be [...]

More than a year after its shutdown, Google to move all Buzz posts to its Drive service on July 17 (Ken Yeung/The Next Web) SoyLaOstia

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Source confirms Intel’s big score: Samsung tablet using an Atom chip  —  Intel’s long years investing in mobile processors are about to pay off with its biggest win to date.  We’ve confirmed that the next Samsung Galaxy tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, will have an Intel Atom chip based on [...]

Source confirms Intel’s big score: Samsung tablet using an Atom chip (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) SoyLaOstia

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Benedict Evans: On market share  —  For the last couple of years, the standard way to look at the progress of the ‘platform war’ between Apple, Google and the now near-vanquished Nokia and RIM was ‘smartphone market share’: each platform’s share of the share of the phone units sold each quarter that could be defined [...]

On market share (Benedict Evans) SoyLaOstia

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google no longer able to pay Android developers in Argentina, pulling apps on July 27th  —  Developers in Argentina have begun receiving letters from Google informing them that “Google Play will no longer be able to accept payments on behalf of developers registered in Argentina starting June 27, 2013.”

Google no longer able to pay Android developers in Argentina, pulling apps on July 27th (Dieter Bohn/The Verge) SoyLaOstia

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web: Do these screenshots reveal a heavily revamped Gmail for mobile and Web is on the way?  —  Gmail users could be seeing the service getting a redesign soon.  Following reports by Android Police about leaked screenshots of the update during Google I/O, we’re also hearing that the email service [...]

Do these screenshots reveal a heavily revamped Gmail for mobile and Web is on the way? (Ken Yeung/The Next Web) SoyLaOstia

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: Venture Firms Build Own Software to Gain an Edge  —  A new website named Grove popped up earlier this year to help entrepreneurs find potential recruits, talk to other startups and track rivals’ growth.  —  That is if the entrepreneur is backed by Sequoia Capital, the well-known venture-capital [...]

Venture Firms Build Own Software to Gain an Edge (Evelyn M. Rusli/Wall Street Journal) SoyLaOstia

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Ron Amadeo / Android Police: Google Glass’s Hidden Labs Features – ‘OK Glass’ Everywhere, Web Browsing, Video Stabilization, And More [Video]  —  Google Glass is very much an experimental piece of hardware and it turns out the software has been built with that ethos in mind, too.  With root and a few carefully-crafted ADB commands [...]

Google Glass’s Hidden Labs Features – ‘OK Glass’ Everywhere, Web Browsing, Video Stabilization, And More [Video] (Ron Amadeo/Android Police) SoyLaOstia

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Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app  —  Google is announcing today that it’s working together with Microsoft on a new YouTube app for Windows Phone.  Following a fight with Microsoft over an unauthorized Windows Phone YouTube application, the pair appear to have resolved their differences.

Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app (Tom Warren/The Verge) SoyLaOstia