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May 25, 2013, 5:35 PM

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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.
More: GigaOM and eWeek
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’.
Ron Amadeo / Android Police:
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.”
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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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