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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 … | 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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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.| Brandy Shaul / Inside Social Games: |
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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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| 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 …
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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.
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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.
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| 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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| Jordan Novet / GigaOM: |
FireEye files for $175M IPO so investors can cash in on cybersecurity craze — FireEye, an IT security vendor, has submitted an S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, kicking off the process to raise as much as $175 million through a public offering.
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New Nokia 925 ad parodies Apple's ‘Photos Every Day’ commercial, claims iPhone 5 takes subpar photos — Nokia has released a new ad for its Lumia 925 today comparing the device's camera to the iPhone 5 and simultaneously parodying Apple's recent “Photos Every Day” TV spot.
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| 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.
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| 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.| David Kriesel / D. Kriesel: |
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents — Edit: In the last section, it is now sketched that the reason for the issue may be a misconfigured JBIG 2 compression. — Edit2, Aug 5th, 1517 CEST: There are first emails coming in by people able to reproduce the error.| 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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