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August 6, 2013, 3:30 PM

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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?
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Publicize News Feed Algorithm Changes, Starting With New “Story Bumping”  —  700 million people use the Facebook News Feed every day but many don't understand how it decides what appears, so Facebook announced today it will start publishing blog updates on how the feed algorithm is changing similar to how Google does.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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, ZDNet, TechEye, ZDNet and Ars TechnicaTweets: @whatthebit
Jeremy Kirk / ITworld.com:
TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript  —  The anonymizing network gives some advice following a startling Firefox zero-day vulnerability  —  The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined …
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.
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.
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.
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