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August 17, 2013, 10:30 AM

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David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:

Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple's Screening Process — Research unmasks a weakness of Apple's App Store: new apps apparently are run for only a few seconds before approval. — WHY IT MATTERS — More than 600 million devices with Apple's iOS have been sold.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Inside the bitter YouTube battle between Microsoft and Google — Why do these companies love to hate each other? — The gloves are off: Microsoft and Google find themselves battling in more product areas than ever while fighting a very public war of words.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation — The CEO of Waywire — the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker — is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

‘JOBS’ Biography Starring Ashton Kutcher Hits Theaters to Mixed Reviews — Joshua Michael Stern's Steve Jobs biography JOBS launched in theaters today, and despite a vigorous marketing campaign that saw actor Ashton Kutcher attending a number of promotional events and interviews …

More: Rotten Tomatoes, Gizmodo, Business Insider and I4U News

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Webcam spying goes mainstream as Miss Teen USA describes hack — Wolf detailing her experience. — CNN/WPIX — Webcam hacking has officially gone mainstream with yesterday's revelation that the new Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, was the victim of a “sextortion” plot in which someone …

More: ABC News and Naked Security

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Virus targets the social network in new fraud twist — (Reuters) - In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number. — As social media has become increasingly influential in shaping reputations, hackers have used …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @josephmenn

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:

ICANN officially kills Google's plan for dotless Search top level domain name — Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. — ICANN's New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names …

More: ICANN, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, Web Host Industry Review, Marketing Land, DomainIncite, TheDomains.com and CircleID

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Carl Icahn Denied in Bid to Upend Dell Buyout Vote — Carl Icahn, the activist investor, can't seem to get a break from the Delaware Chancery Court. — A judge in that court turned away Icahn's petition asking it to intervene and stop a buyout vote scheduled for Sept. 12.

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, DealBook, Electronista, eWeek, Associated Press, Reuters, ZDNet, ValueWalk, MoneyBeat and GigaOM. Tweets: @allthingsd

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Begins Showing Mac Pro Teaser in Movie Theaters with ‘Fall 2013’ Announcement — Apple has begun showing the teaser video for the upcoming Mac Pro in movie theaters across the nation. First shown at WWDC during the initial debut of the Mac Pro, the video shows the sleek black curves of the product from multiple angles.

More: iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @tgaul, @johnhmeyer123 and @swb1192

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook's News Feed Algorithm Now Has Close To 100K Weight Factors — The next time you tell a client how Facebook selects and ranks the content that shows up in the News Feed, you'll need to do it without using the word EdgeRank. — EdgeRank, Facebook's original News Feed ranking system, is dead.

More: GigaOM and Softpedia News

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Taxi E-Hail Startup Flywheel Launches In Los Angeles To Take On Uber, Lyft, And SideCar — Mobile taxi-hailing app Flywheel is growing fast, doubling its number of rides over just the last two-and-a-half months. And with new funding in place, it's looking to enter new markets to provide …

More: Los Angeles Times

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

FundersClub Ditches Dumb Money By Going Invite-Only — “Democratizing venture capital” sounds great until equity crowdfunding fills startup financing rounds with amateur angels who don't add value. So while other funding platforms open the floodgates to any accredited investor …

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