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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.

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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 …

More: ZDNet, GigaOM, on the build, Guardian, Forbes, GeekWire, PandoDaily, The Verge, Computerworld, BBC, TIME, Business Insider, The Drum, Network World and Motherboard

Tweets: @rafat and @jaredbkeller

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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, Valleywag and Business Insider

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

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 …

More: The Switch, GigaOM, TechCrunch, GeekWire, AdExchanger, internetretailer.com, WebProNews and Business Insider. Tweets: @brianstelter. See also Mediagazer

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years

More: The Verge and Gizmodo. 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, Quartz and Poynter

Tweets: @benpopper and @agolis

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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.

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.

More: The Verge, Touch Arcade, VG247 and Polygon

Tweets: @samfbiddle and @waxpancake

Brandy Shaul / Inside Social Games:

Zynga announces closure of OMGPop.com, four OMGPop Facebook games

More: Zynga Player Support, Betabeat, WebProNews and AllThingsD

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.

More: Apple, The Next Web, GigaOM, ZDNet, Macworld, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, Engadget, Digits, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, TechSpot, MacNN, The Loop, iPhone Hacks, Apple Fan Site, Macgasm, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo and SlashGear. Thanks:@markgurman

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: The Register, TechHive, Ars Technica, BGR, SlashGear, TorrentFreak 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: Ars Technica. Tweets: @mikelacher, @lxt, @wilshipley and @alanc. Thanks:@themadhacker

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.

More: GigaOM, PC World, The Register, ZDNet, EE Times and ExtremeTech

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 …

More: eWeek, San Francisco Chronicle, Computerworld, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Guardian and BGR. Thanks:@philiped

Wall Street Journal:

Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles

More: SiliconBeat, Mercury News, AppleInsider, Electronista, InvestorPlace, GeekWire, Mobile Marketing Watch and Reuters

Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

Samsung Loses $1 Billion in Market Value After U.S. Veto on Apple Ban, Files Appeal Against Patent Ruling

More: 9to5Mac, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, Patent Law Blog and Ubergizmo

Ryan Faas / CITEworld:

Apps updated for iOS 7 could cause major headaches for older devices — Last month I discussed some of the challenges developers will face with iOS 7. With Apple pushing developers hard to update their apps for iOS 7, they are under the gun to get their apps updated, both in terms of user interface as well as underlying capabilities.

More: furbo.org, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, GeekWire, Softpedia News and TUAW. Thanks:@ryanfaas

Wall Street Journal:

Future of Cable Might Not Include TV — Predicting that transmission of TV will move to the Internet eventually, Cablevision Systems Corp. Chief Executive James Dolan says “there could come a day” when his company stops offering television service, making broadband its primary offering.

More: GigaOM, Betabeat, Business Insider, Digits and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

For Twitter, Free Speech Is a High-Wire Act — As Micro-Blogging Site Expands Globally, It Gets Flak From Many Sides — Twitter Inc.'s growing ambitions are making it harder to carry the Internet's free-speech banner. — Chief Executive Dick Costolo promotes Twitter as a protector …

More: SiliconBeat, Guardian and Venture Capital Dispatch

Tweets: @mirandachale and @rashaabdulla

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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.

More: VentureBeat, brecorder.com, InvestorPlace, channelweb.co.uk, Techworld.com and Forbes

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

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.

More: AppleInsider, UK Mobile Review, TUAW, BGR and Gotta Be Mobile

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