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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL Makes the Biggest Buy of the Tim Armstrong Era: $405 Million for Adap.TV — Tim Armstrong hasn't bought anything for a couple years. Now he's made his biggest purchase since taking over the company in 2009: AOL is buying Web video company Adap.TV for $405 million in cash and stock.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, GigaOM and Yankee Sabra Limey. See also Mediagazer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

AOL Q2 Comes In (Slightly) Above Estimates With $541M Revenue, $0.35 Earnings Per Share — AOL just released its earnings report for the second quarter of the year, coming in ahead of Wall Street expectations with revenue of $541 million, up 2 percent percent from the same period last year, and diluted earnings per share of $0.35.

More: Reuters. Tweets: @pkafka and @jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

The Quiet Mobile Giant: With 300M Active Users, WhatsApp Adds Voice Messaging — WhatsApp, a tiny startup with a very basic idea, boring design and lots of competition, has somehow managed to connect up most of the world. And that's actually pretty exciting.

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Amazon now offering game and software downloads for PC and Mac in the UK — Amazon has expanded its digital marketplace to allow UK customers to download games and software via its website. Already an option on its US store, Amazon has made available a selection of popular paid titles for PC and Mac …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Softpedia News, Apple Bitch and Electronista

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Yahoo is getting a new logo on September 5, but it's keeping its infamous exclamation mark — There's plenty of change happening at Yahoo under Marissa Mayer, but one thing is sure to remain the same...that darn exclamation mark. — Yahoo today unveiled the first in a series of new logos …

More: Yahoo!, Digital Trends, The Register, PC World, BetaNews, The Technology Chronicles, USA Today, Off On A Tangent, AllThingsD, memeburn, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, I4U News, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET and The Verge

Tweets: @counternotions and @theromit

Elliot / Elliott Kember:

Chrome's insane password security strategy — Chrome does something interesting when you first run it. — I have a set of bookmarklets that I use to enhance my internet experience. Actually, that's not entirely true. I have one bookmarklet: Embiggen.js, which I use to expand images on Reddit.

More: Guardian, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, TechWeekEurope UK, The Drum, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet and gHacks Technology News

Tweets: @timberners_lee, @justinschuh, @justinschuh, @danieleran, @dannysullivan, @chrisdrackett, @nick_viviani, @marypcbuk, @mat, @tomwarren and @jeffmik

Mat Honan / Wired:

Twitter's Killer New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb — When Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication back in May, it hinted that the SMS authentication would be merely a first step in a more robust security solution. Today, WIRED got a better look at the company's just-announced …

More: Twitter Blog. Tweets: @smcbride, @jimio and @couch

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Twitter for iOS and Android gets login verification, photo galleries, search improvements, and list management

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm With New “Story Bumping” & “Last Actor” Factors — Facebook is changing the way it ranks organic posts that are eligible to show up in its users' News Feeds. — The company announced two new factors — “Story Bumping” and “Last Actor” …

James Trew / Engadget:

Vodafone UK confirms 4G network to launch August 29, plans start at £26 a month — Vodafone UK has just announced its 4G network rollout will begin on August 29th, with London to be the first city to go live. Twelve more locations will get switched on before the end of the year …

More: ZDNet, Inquirer, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Verge, BBC, The Next Web, UK Mobile Review and Crave

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How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers — After Ev Williams first started working on Twitter, he reached out to Jason Stirman in Texas. “You have to come out here,” Williams said. “Twitter is happening and we want you to join us.” But Stirman wasn't easily convinced.

More: Wall Street Journal

Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Ex-Apple CEO Scully's startup gets Shine wearable activity tracker into Apple Stores — A startup company co-founded by former Apple CEO John Sculley has formed a partnership with his former company, as Apple's stores will now carry Misfit's Shine wearable activity measuring device.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, I4U News, Benzinga, SlashGear, MacNN, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, bizjournals and HeraldSun

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Flickr Gets New Leader From Google — Longtime Mayer Favorite Bernardo Hernandez — Yahoo has hired former Google exec Bernardo Hernández González, a longtime favorite of CEO Marissa Mayer when she was at the search company. Hernandez, who most recently worked on Zagat at Google, announced the new job on Twitter.

More: CNET, Marketing Land, I4U News, GigaOM, Softpedia News, PetaPixel, VentureBeat and Engadget

Tweets: @berniehernie and @jyarow

Los Angeles Times:

Amber Alert: Californians confused, angry and startled — Residents across California were startled overnight by cellphones that came to life in screeches and buzzes, awaking some and unsettling others with the state's first Amber Alert via text message. — Californians are no strangers …

More: Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, WebProNews, Mercury News, Forbes, Network World, Motherboard, MacStories and Business Insider

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Google patent launches specific apps through pattern unlock — When you set up your Android phone with a secure unlock mode, it often means giving up app shortcuts. You won't have to make that sacrifice if Google implements a newly granted US patent, however.

More: The Register, PhoneArena, Droid Life, IntoMobile, AndroidGuys, SlashGear and Gizmodo

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it — You probably remember the online outrage over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) copyright enforcement proposal. Last week, the Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy …

More: Consumerist, The Raw Story, The Register, WebProNews, DSLreports and BGR. Tweets: @tagallagher. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Business Insider, Anil Dash, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Valleywag

Tweets: @caro, @sethpriebatsch and @owenthomas

Thanks:@jordanhepner

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft launches Windows Phone web tool to let anyone create apps — Microsoft wants Windows Phone developers and apps, and it's launching a developer tool on Tuesday in its latest effort to secure apps for its ecosystem. A beta version of Windows Phone App Studio is now available …

More: The Windows Blog, Inside Mobile Apps, InfoWorld, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, The Register, TechCrunch, InfoQ, GeekWire, GigaOM, Engadget, WMPoweruser and Windows Phone Central

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Hortonworks CEO confirms co-founder and CTO's departure — Hadoop startup Hortonworks has confirmed that its co-founder and CTO Eric Baldeschwieler is no longer with the company. We reported on evidence suggesting the move on Monday, and CEO Rob Bearden confirmed Baldeschwieler's departure in a blog post on Tuesday.

More: Hortonworks, DBMS 2, ZDNet and The Register

Paul Ducklin / Naked Security:

OpenX ad servers “pre-compromised” - official distro contained remote code backdoor — You don't always have to break into someone's web server to get them to deliver your malware for you. — You may be able to implant malware onto a site from which your victim fetches third-party content …

More: ZDNet, Sucuri Blog, Softpedia News, OpenX Blog, Ars Technica and Softpedia News

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