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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 AOL in 2009: AOL is buying Web video company Adap.TV for $405 million in cash and stock.

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

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Appstore Now Open To Web Apps, With One-Click In-App Purchases In Tow — Amazon today is announcing a significant expansion to its mobile application marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, which will now be open to developers of HTML5 web applications and mobile websites.

More: Amazon.com, VentureBeat, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, ReadWrite and WebProNews. Thanks:@romaindillet

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.

David Pierce / The Verge:

LG announces the G2 smartphone, its new 5.2-inch flagship device — After months of not so much leaking the device as turning on its hose, LG has finally shown off the G2 smartphone it's been talking about so much. The G2 is the company's new flagship, the first without the Optimus branding.

More: The Next Web, BGR, Digits, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, Droid Life, IntoMobile, Android Police and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @reckless

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: The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget, PC World, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, RT, TechSpot, Graham Cluley, ZDNet, Softpedia News, TechWeekEurope UK, The Raw Story, SiliconANGLE and The Drum

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

CNET:

Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything — In an interview with CNET Korea, Samsung's J.K. Shin talks about the opportunity for the upstart operating system to run on everything from smartphones to cars. — Samsung Electronics has broad ambitions for Tizen …

More: BGR, SlashGear, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo and PhoneArena

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!, VatorNews, The Atlantic Wire, Marketing Land, USA Today, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, memeburn, BetaNews, Gizmodo, I4U News, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET, The Technology Chronicles and The Verge

Tweets: @counternotions and @theromit

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, CNET, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Apple Bitch, Engadget and Electronista

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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, I4U News, GigaOM, Benzinga, SlashGear, MacNN, Cult of Mac, MacRumors and bizjournals

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, Mercury News, PandoDaily, WebProNews, Forbes, Network World, Motherboard and MacStories

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, PetaPixel, I4U News, Softpedia News, GigaOM, VentureBeat and Engadget

Tweets: @berniehernie and @jyarow

Dave Tach / Polygon:

John Carmack becomes Oculus CTO, will remain at id as well — John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software and creator of the Doom, Quake and Rage series of games, joined the company as its Chief Technical Officer, according to a post on the virtual reality headset's Kickstarter blog.

More: Oculus VR, The Verge, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, VentureBeat, Forbes, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Kotaku, Gamasutra, Giant Bomb, I4U News and VG247

Tweets: @id_aa_carmack and @jasonkincaid

James Trew / Engadget:

Vodafone UK confirms 4G network to launch August 29th, 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: The Register, Inquirer, MacRumors, Vodafone Social, The Next Web, ZDNet, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Verge, BBC, Crave and UK Mobile Review

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” …

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 Register, The Raw Story, WebProNews, DSLreports and BGR. Tweets: @tagallagher

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Facebook's Graph Search is now available to everyone using US English — More than eight months after Facebook first introduced Graph Search, the social network has announced it's now open to everyone using Facebook in US English. — Launched as a limited preview for English-speaking users …

More: Facebook Newsroom, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable and Softpedia News

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

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