Brian Crecente / Polygon:
The Xbox One can talk to you, will feature remote play  —  Microsoft's day-long media outing for the Xbox One this week was only the first of a two-stage unveiling for the new console, and the E3 event won't be just about games.  —  Among the features not yet shown off for the console …

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 10:55 pm

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Lambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google Glass  —  Lambda Labs, an early-stage startup out of San Francisco, is preparing to release a facial recognition API for developers working on Google Glass apps.  The API will be available to interested developers within a week, company co-founder Stephen Balaban says.

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 7:50 pm

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Deal for Tumblr Won't Move Internet Giant's Needle  —  When Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced that the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire blogging site Tumblr, she promised not to “screw it up.”  Maybe the young chief should have instead emphasized …

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 4:50 pm

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Yahoo's Design Chief to Depart  —  Tim Parsey, the senior vice president of user experience design at Yahoo, is leaving the company, he said in an interview Thursday.  —  Mr. Parsey said he was hired last year to help infuse a culture of design at the company.

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 1:30 pm

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.

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 10:55 am

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 …

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 8:20 am

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.

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 7:20 am

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.

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 5:05 am

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’.

Posted on 25 May 2013 | 2:00 am

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.”

Posted on 24 May 2013 | 10:55 pm

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.

Posted on 24 May 2013 | 8:50 pm

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 …

Posted on 24 May 2013 | 8:40 pm

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.

Posted on 24 May 2013 | 7:25 pm

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 …

Posted on 24 May 2013 | 6:10 pm

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.

Posted on 24 May 2013 | 4:55 pm