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Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter's Killer New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb  —  When Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication back in May, it hinted that the SMS authentication would be merely a first step in a more robust security solution.  Today, WIRED got a better look at the company's just-announced …
More: Twitter Blog.  Tweets: @jimio and @couch
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Twitter for iOS and Android gets login verification, photo galleries, search improvements, and list management  —  Twitter today announced an update to its Android and iOS apps that adds multiple new features, including a new form of two-factor authentication.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Windows Phone web tool to let anyone create apps  —  Microsoft wants Windows Phone developers and apps, and it's launching a developer tool on Tuesday in its latest effort to secure apps for its ecosystem.  A beta version of Windows Phone App Studio is now available …
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Here's Why I Think Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post  —  Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider, so in the wake of news that he's buying the Washington Post, folks have been asking me two questions:  — What's it like being owned or invested in by Jeff Bezos?
Michael Moritz / LinkedIn:
Stop the Presses: A New Press Lord Appears
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
FreedomPop offers 500MB of free LTE a month, upgrades to Sprint's faster 4G network  —  FreedomPop is a mobile network operator with a pretty crazy business model.  You buy the wireless hotspot or USB dongle, and they provide the internet for free: 500MB of free data every month, with no contracts, activation or cancellation fees.
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Will Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Finally Get It Right?  —  It's 2 a.m. and Dennis Crowley is wired.  We've just left Foursquare's South by Southwest party at the Hype Hotel, a warehouse-size space in downtown Austin where nearly 1,000 revelers were drowning in deafening club music and Tito's Handmade Vodka.
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm With New “Story Bumping” & “Last Actor” Factors  —  Facebook is changing the way it ranks organic posts that are eligible to show up in its users' News Feeds.  —  The company announced two new factors — “Story Bumping” and “Last Actor” …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Firefox 23 arrives with a new logo, Share button, mixed content blocker, network monitor, and more  —  Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 23 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.  Improvements include the addition of a Share button, mixed content blocker, and network monitor on the desktop side.
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 a new study that Twitter executives, among others, will be delighted to see.  —  It's the first research …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace with over 40,000 fine artworks  —  Amazon has just announced the Amazon Art marketplace, giving users access to 40,000 pieces of fine art from over 150 dealers and galleries.  Over 4,500 artists will be represented at launch, making the site …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Music publishers file copyright suit against big YouTube channel operator  —  A group of music publishers and songwriters have claimed in a copyright lawsuit that Fullscreen, which operates a network of popular YouTube channels, is including unlicensed music in its videos.
More: GigaOM and TechCrunch
Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget:
Samsung trademark filing for ‘Galaxy Gear’ hints at smartwatch  —  The evidence keeps piling up for a Samsung smartwatch that has yet to materialize.  Most recently, Dutch site Galaxy Club uncovered a US trademark filing for “Samsung Galaxy Gear” that was published at the end of July.
Phone Arena:
Intel announces two Atom-based Android tablets for school use  —  More and more classrooms around the world are going digital.  Paper textbooks are gradually being replaced by electronic copies, which are loaded with interactive content, thus significantly improving the education process.
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.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Cyber Security Expert Barrett Lyon Brings Defense.net Out Of Stealth To Battle A New Wave Of DDoS Attacks  —  Cyber security expert and serial entrepreneur Barrett Lyon has a new startup coming out of stealth today.  The company, named Defense.net, specializes in mitigating DDoS attacks — something Lyon knows a little something about.
More: GigaOM
Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:
Samsung's “3D Vertical” NAND crams a terabit on a single chip  —  SSD enthusiasts know all about SLC, MLC, and TLC, but there are some new acronyms in SSD town: V-NAND and CTF.  Samsung announced in a press release last night that it has begun mass production of “3D Vertical NAND,” …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Grooveshark settles EMI Publishing lawsuit, still faces uncertain future  —  Grooveshark, the oft-sued streaming music service, appears to be putting some of its legal troubles behind it.  The company is expected to announce, perhaps as early as this week, that it has signed a licensing agreement …
Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
White House publishes preliminary list of cybersecurity incentives  —  The White House on Tuesday released a preliminary set of incentives it may offer power plants, water companies and others that operate critical infrastructure to get them to join a cybersecurity program chaired by the Homeland Security Department.

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David Ingram / NBC News:
Hyundai says it is pausing ads on X, after one ad appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi content; the ad appeared on a user profile that had 55K+ followers

New York Times:
Sources: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo discussed a joint all-cash offer for Paramount, which is still in an exclusive negotiation window with Skydance

Sara Fischer / Axios:
CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Canalys: Samsung and Apple lost smartphone share to Chinese vendors in Q2 2013, India now the third largest market

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