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August 6, 2013, 11:40 AM

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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:
Nielsen Blesses Twitter's Tale With a New Study: Tweets Really Can Boost Ratings  —  All that Twittering about TV?  It really does boost TV ratings.  —  So says Nielsen, in new study that Twitter executives, among others, will be delighted to see.  —  It's the first research …
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.
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
IBM Gets Allies to Chip Away at Intel  —  Google, Others Join Effort to Break Big Blue's Power Designs Out of a Niche  —  International Business Machines Corp. has enlisted Google Inc. and some other high-tech allies for a collective effort to catapult an IBM chip technology out of a shrinking niche.
More: GigaOM, ZDNet, Ars Technica and ZDNetTweets: @whatthebit
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.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
YC-Backed One Month Rails Teaches You How To Build Your Startup While You Learn To Code  —  If you build it, they will come.  But what if you don't know how to build it?  —  That was the problem facing Mattan Griffel, founder of a new YC-backed startup called One Month Rails that is launching today.
Thanks:@waqasaday
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Square for iOS gets payment recording and tracking, cash management and Bluetooth printer support for iPad  —  Square today updated its iOS app with new features for all of Apple's mobile devices as well as added some iPad-specific improvements.  You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Canalys: Samsung and Apple lost smartphone share to Chinese vendors in Q2 2013, India now the third largest market  —  Samsung and Apple managed to grow their smartphone shipments in Q2 2013, by 55 percent and 20 percent respectively to maintain first and second place.  Nevertheless, they both lost share to Chinese vendors.
Leigh Beadon / Techdirt:
Gaining Momentum Against Patent Trolls: A 2013 Timeline … The term “patent troll” has been kicking around for about 20 years now (at least according to Wikipedia's etymology), and that's about how long it's taken for the problem to really start getting attention in the broader political world.
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.

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