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August 5, 2013, 9:45 PM

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos  —  The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase  —  To the employees of The Washington Post:  —  You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension.  When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Pays $250 Million for Washington Post  —  Jeff Bezos wasn't the only one interested in buying the Washington Post.  But he was “the best and highest bidder,” according to a person familiar with the transaction.  —  The Post's parent company shocked much of the media business today …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity  —  Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Following electrocution controversy, Apple to offer USB power adapter replacements  —  Following controversy in recent weeks regarding the safety of counterfeit and third-party USB charging adapters for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad, Apple has announced a new trade-in program for these adapters.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
How the ITC forced a veto in the Samsung-Apple patent case  —  The International Trade Commission blew it by ignoring Dean Pinkert dissent.  —  FORTUNE — His dissent was heavily redacted and buried in a long official filing, But everything you need to know about how the U.S. International …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Comcast Developing Anti-Piracy Alternative to ‘Six Strikes’ (Exclusive)  —  Cable operator pitching TV industry on plan to convert illegal downloads to legal transaction opportunities  —  Comcast Corp. is developing a new approach to fighting piracy in the U.S., and wants other major content companies and distributors on board.
Wall Street Journal:
Future of Cable Might Not Include TV  —  At Cablevision, Broadband Could Become Primary Offering Eventually  —  By - SHALINI RAMACHANDRAN And - MARTIN PEERS -  —  Predicting that transmission of TV will move to the Internet eventually, Cablevision Systems Corp. Chief Executive James Dolan says …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google adds touch-friendly Chrome features in latest test version  —  Google appears to be readying a number of touch-friendly features for its Chrome browser.  In the latest nightly Canary build, a new slide-to-navigate feature has been added that lets you swipe left or right to go backwards and forwards on web pages.
David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
Carl Icahn Buys 4 Million Dell Shares  —  Vocal Detractor of Company Buyout Now Owns 8.9%  —  Carl Icahn bought four million more shares of Dell Inc. last week, according to a securities filing, upping his stake slightly in an ongoing fight against the technology company's buyout.
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