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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.
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
OMGPOP Team Tried To Buy Back Its Site, But Zynga Killed It Instead — OMGPOP almost got an extra life, but Zynga said ‘game over’. Zynga just finalized plans to shut down OMGPOP, the game developer of Draw My Thing it acquired for $200 million in March 2012.| Wall Street Journal: |
Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles — The Obama administration's decision to overturn an international trade ruling against Apple Inc. AAPL +1.37% —the first such veto in more than 25 years—promises to upend long-running battles over intellectual property … | Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
South Korea says concerned about U.S. decision on some Apple models — (Reuters) - The South Korean government on Monday expressed concerns about the decision by the United States to overrule a sales ban of some Apple Inc (AAPL.O) models. — The Obama administration vetoed a U.S. trade panel's ban …
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| 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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| 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.
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook Hires First CMO Gary Briggs from Google — Mr. Briggs Replaces VP-Product Marketing Eric Antonow — Facebook has tapped a seasoned technology marketing executive most recently with Google to be its first-ever CMO. — Gary Briggs, who'd previously been chief marketer …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Tablet sales slow in 2Q on absence of new iPad, IDC says — The research firm says tablet shipments should remain weak in the current quarter but pick up in the last three months of the year. — The iPad Mini. — The second quarter wasn't especially bright for tablet sales, and Apple is partly to blame, according to IDC.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Reader Alternative Feedly Sells Out Of Newly Launched Pro Accounts, More Arriving This Fall — Barely a day after Google Reader replacement Feedly began offering a paid version of its service, the company has sold out of the limited number of premium accounts it was making available.
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Marketing Land, MacRumors, Geekosystem, The Verge, Engadget, WebProNews, ReadWrite, Electronista, The Next Web and Softpedia News. Tweets: @m4tt
| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
China Scrutinizes 2 Apple Suppliers in Pollution Probe — Move Follows Claims of Heavy-Metal Discharge From Plants Run by UniMicron, Hon Hai — KUNSHAN, China—Chinese regulators are scrutinizing two suppliers to Apple Inc. and other gadget makers following allegations by environmental groups …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Notes New Galaxy Coming At Sept. 4 Event in Berlin — Samsung on Monday announced plans to launch a new Galaxy device at a Sept. 4 event in Berlin. — The handwritten design of the invitation suggests that perhaps the event might serve as a launch point for the next Galaxy Note, which has been expected to launch this fall.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Crossbar says it will explode the $60B flash memory market with Resistive RAM, which stores a terabyte on a chip — Crossbar is announcing today a new kind of memory chip that can replace flash memory, one of the fundamental building blocks of digital electronics, in a number of of applications.
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| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sends out developer update: planning to restore most of the remaining services this week — Apple has been slowly restoring their Developer Center, and today the company has sent out an email update to developers regarding the restorations to take place this week:
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