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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 …

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Tweets: @jaredbkeller and @rafat

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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?

More: TechCrunch, bizjournals, memeburn and Dave Winer. Tweets: @funktio. See also Mediagazer

Michael Moritz / LinkedIn:

Stop the Presses: A New Press Lord Appears — Word that Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post might cause consternation in its newsroom, but uneasy journalists wondering about what lies in store might be reassured if they read the letters he has sent to shareholders since 1997.

More: BuzzMachine, Venture Capital Dispatch and TheStreet.com

Tweets: @antderosa, @bradstone, @linkedintoday and @jgut

Lydia DePillis / Wonkblog:

Why The Washington Post isn't a charity case for Jeff Bezos — Picture this on a Kindle. — If Don Graham were not such a serious person, his announcement this afternoon that Jeff Bezos was purchasing his family's company might have seemed like a joke. The Post seems so very old media …

More: BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Valleywag

Tweets: @frucci, @ezraklein, @mmorri, @ckrewson and @thefix

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years — Before Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million, he had some choice words for the ailing print news industry. In a wide-ranging interview with the German paper, Berliner-Zeitung …

More: New Yorker, Gawker, Gizmodo and TechPresident. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Emily Bell / Guardian:

Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: a marriage of old media and new money

More: Wonkblog, Talking Points Memo, Memex 1.1 and Forbes

Tweets: @agolis, @benpopper, @wortfeld and @simoncrerar

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Pays $250 Million for Washington Post

More: GigaOM, eWeek and AdExchanger. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: Nielsen, AdExchanger, New York Times, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, ECPM BLOG, Reuters, Softpedia News, The Atlantic Wire, AdAge, The Next Web, USA Today, Bloomberg and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: TechRadar.com, Examiner, ReadWrite, ZDNet, GigaOM, The Register, BBC, TechCrunch, Electronista, Mobile Magazine, BGR, BGR India, Android Beat and SlashGear

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, Ars Technica, ZDNet and ZDNet. Tweets: @whatthebit

Geppy Parziale / iNVASIVECODE:

Will a fingerprint sensor be Apple's next hit? — Some months ago, the press reported that AuthenTec was acquired by Apple. In the last few weeks, rumors on a fingerprint sensor embedded in the next iPhone generation have been increasing in the media. What would the fingerprint sensor be used for?

More: 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, iClarified and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@geppyp

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

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.

More: Techdirt, DSLreports, GigaOM, Business Insider, Electronista, WebProNews, ExtremeTech, Ubergizmo, The Tech Report, Forbes, TorrentFreak, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The Register, BGR, TechHive and Engadget

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.

More: BBC, Gizmodo, Examiner, Ars Technica and FierceCIO:TechWatch News

Tweets: @mikelacher, @lxt, @wilshipley and @alanc

Thanks:@themadhacker

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.

More: I4U News, SlashGear and Engadget

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.

More: Canalys Newsroom, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Computerworld, WebProNews, nextbigwhat.com, MediaNama, Android Beat, BGR, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

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.

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 …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Amazon.com, GeekWire, BetaNews, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Geekosystem, WebProNews, The Next Web and Softpedia News

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