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.
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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 …
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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 saved to Google Drive.
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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 the Clover Trail code name.
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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 as ‘smart’.
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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.”
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Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: Laurene Powell Jobs and Anonymous Giving in Silicon Valley  —  In Silicon Valley, people get very rich, very fast, often when they are very young.  As a result, they are often criticized for not giving away enough of that money.  —  There are signs that is changing, as people like Mark Zuckerberg become more philanthropic.
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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 …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon Launches App Engagement Reports, Allowing Appstore Developers To Track App Usage & Revenue  —  Continuing to grow its suite of services aimed at mobile app developers, Amazon today announced App Engagement Reports, free app usage reports that are now a part of the company's Mobile App Distribution Portal.
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge: Broadcasters go after Aereo by suing smaller competitor, Aereokiller  —  ABC, NBC, and Fox file a new copyright suit against a far less formidable opponent  —  The nation's largest television broadcasters filed a copyright lawsuit against FilmOn.TV and its Aereokiller service yesterday …
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Craig Lloyd / SlashGear: Xbox One sets sights on 400m sold, Xbox 360 aims for 100m  —  With the Xbox One releasing later this year, many may think that Microsoft will leave the Xbox 360 by the wayside, but it seems that's on the contrary, as the company aims to sell 25 million units over the next five years, even with the console's successor on the market.
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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 firm …
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Wall Street Journal: Iran Hacks Energy Firms, U.S. Says  —  Oil-and-Gas, Power Companies' Control Systems Believed to Be Infiltrated; Fear of Sabotage Potential  —  WASHINGTON—Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions …
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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 …
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Reuters: ITV News Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army  —  (Reuters) - British broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security to prevent such attacks.
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Anna Edney / Bloomberg: IPhone Urinalysis Draws First FDA Inquiry of Medical Apps  —  An iPhone application that lets users check levels of blood, protein and other substances in their urine is the first target of U.S. regulators seeking boundaries in a burgeoning industry for medical diagnosis on-the-go.
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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.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Facebook's Head Of Brand Design Paul Adams Joins Customer Outreach Startup Intercom  —  Paul Adams, who was previously Facebook's global head of brand design, has joined a startup called Intercom, where he will be serving as head of product design.  —  Adams told me earlier that he wasn't looking …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Yet Another Hulu Bidder!  Yahoo Is In, Too.  —  Add one more name to Hulu bidding derby: Yahoo, which just announced plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion, has made an offer on the video Web site as well.  —  The Web giant submitted a bid for the video site this morning, according to a person familiar with process.
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: Google Plans to Fund, Develop Wireless Networks in Emerging Markets  —  Google is working to connect a billion or more new people to the Internet.  The Silicon Valley company is deep in the throes of a multipronged effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets …
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Ron Amadeo / Android Police: Redesigned Gmail Screenshot Leaks During Google I/O Session  —  At Google I/O there was a session called “Structure in Android App Design,” where they talked about various navigation techniques, including the new navigation drawer.  —  It's a cool talk; you'll learn a lot about the pro …
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: WordPress.com Maker Automattic Sells $50 Million Of Stock In Secondary Offering To Tiger Global  —  Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress.com, has sold $50 million in a secondary offering led by investment management firm Tiger Global.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD: Best Buy to Offer $50 Off Apple's iPhone Starting Sunday  —  Best Buy is planning to cut $50 off the iPhone in a four-week promotion that kicks off on Sunday.  —  The price cut applies to the purchase of the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 in conjunction with a two-year contract with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint.
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Jon Fingas / Engadget: Verizon Cloud spreads to iOS devices, Droid DNA and Galaxy S 4  —  When Verizon Cloud launched last month, it would only back up a few Android devices — not quite the cross-platform utopia that the carrier had in mind.  Today's launch of the Verizon Cloud iOS app should get the company (and subscribers) closer to the original vision.
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Peter Burrows / Businessweek: A Booming Market for Used iPhones  —  Apple (AAPL) is expert at stoking desire, seducing consumers to line up and pay a premium for its newest models.  At the moment, though, the hottest iPhones are less expensive—and old.  Sales of refurbished iPhone 4's and 4S's are booming among price …
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