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Reuters – Missed the latest episode of “The Simpsons” and want to check it out online the next day? Starting on August 15, you’ll be able to –but you’ll need to subscribe to a cable or satellite service.

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Reuters – Fox Networks said it would provide cable and satellite subscribers an exclusive 8-day window to watch new episodes of Fox shows like “Glee” online following their initial air-dates.

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AFP – A man who used the online nickname “Evil” has been charged with hacking attacks that police Wednesday alleged could have caused considerable damage to Australia?s national infrastructure.

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AP – Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit fell despite a 51 percent jump in revenue as the leading online retailer spent heavily to expand its business.

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Reuters – Efforts to give U.S. regulators the authority to auction off some television airwaves for mobile broadband use are getting a boost in a debt ceiling plan proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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AP – The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web — or face regulation.

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Mashable – Google, by way of Google Offers and Google Wallet, has long shown an interest in winning the daily deal poker match against current market leader and one-time acquisition target Groupon. Tuesday, Google is going all in with a deals-focused update to Google Shopper for iPhone.
The Google Shopper for iPhone application [iTunes link], once focused around comparison shopping, now includes nearby offers and has become a near clone of Groupon’s first-to-market Groupon Now application for location-based deal discovery.

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AP – The lawyer for a blogger charged with inciting violence by urging readers to “take up arms” against Connecticut lawmakers says his client’s comments were similar to when baseball fans shout, “Kill the umpire!”

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AP – Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games like “CityVille,” is taking that game to China. Since Facebook is blocked in the country, it’s partnering instead with local Internet portal Tencent.

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PC Magazine – Amazon executives said Tuesday that the company does and will pay online sales taxes, but that the retailer preferred a federal solution, one that doesn’t leave it up to the states.

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NewsFactor – Samsung and Verizon Wireless will begin selling the first Long Term Evolution 4G tablet on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab, first introduced in November, is now equipped for 4G download speeds of five to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of two to five Mbps in 4G broadband areas.

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AFP – Dutch telecoms operator KPN reported an 11.0-percent drop in net profit to 414 million euros for the second quarter on Tuesday, blaming the rise of Internet-based telephone applications.

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AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending July 25, 2011:

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Reuters – Gannett Co is expanding its DealChicken daily deals service, which will be in more than 50 cities by the end of year, as the top U.S. newspaper chain tries to capitalize on the online coupon craze.

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AP – A first-term Missouri congressman is apologizing to people offended by his online post using the death of British singer Amy Winehouse to make a point about the federal government.

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AFP – US social games star Zynga made its debut in Mainland China with a localized “Zynga City” title launched in an alliance with leading Chinese Internet service Tencent.

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Mashable – [More from Mashable: Harry Potter Reimagined as a Lighthearted Teen Movie [VIDEO]]

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AFP – Estonia is planning to bolster monitoring of the Internet to track potential extremist plots in the wake of last week’s massacre in Norway.

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AFP – More Americans are watching online video amid greater access to broadband and improved mobile networks, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

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Reuters – Social games maker Zynga is partnering with Tencent Holdings Ltd, the Chinese Internet company, to launch its first game in mainland China as it tries to find new users by tapping into the $5.8 billion Chinese games market.

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Reuters – American Apparel signed a multi-year deal with EBay Inc for an online store, as the retailer continues efforts to turn around its sagging sales, sending its shares up as much as 12 percent before the bell.

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AP – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now renting and streaming movies online, many the same day they come out on DVD, in a second bid for a share of popular movie rental and streaming website Netflix Inc.’s business.

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Reuters – Wal-Mart Stores Inc is moving its Vudu video streaming and rental service to a place where it can get attract more eyeballs — the Walmart.com web site — as the growing service competes for attention with a variety of video services.

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AP – Baidu Inc., which operates China’s dominant search engine, said Tuesday its quarterly profit jumped 95 percent on traffic growth and strong spending by big advertising customers.

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Reuters – China’s top search engine Baidu Inc forecast revenue well ahead of Wall Street’s expectations as large advertisers increased spending, sending its shares up around 7 percent.

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AP – Netflix Inc. is bracing for a backlash to its recently announced price hikes that could result in its slowest subscriber growth in more than three years.

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AP – AOL Inc.’s heads of online ad sales and corporate communications are leaving as part of the Internet company’s latest management reorganization.

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AFP – Hacker groups said Monday they had accessed the website of Italy’s cyber police and published classified information online in revenge for arrests of hackers in Europe and the United States.

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AFP – Finnish police said Monday they will monitor the Internet more rigorously for evidence of extremists plots following last week’s twin massacres in neighbouring Norway.

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Mashable – The Saudi Arabian government has reportedly blocked access to Amnesty International’s website, days after the human rights organization locked horns with the government over a draft anti-terrorism law.
The law, posted online last Friday by Amnesty, would allow Saudi authorities to prosecute non-violent dissent as an act of terrorism. Amnesty claims that the law “allows for a minimum 10-year prison sentence for ‘questioning the integrity’ of the royal family” and claims the law is designed to suppress dissent rather than fight terrorism.

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AP – Authorities on Monday sought a man responsible for calling in a fake hostage report that targeted a well-known Internet security expert and encumbered about 30 police officers and SWAT team members for three hours over the weekend.

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Reuters – AOL Inc’s top advertising executive will leave the company as part of a revamping designed to turn around its advertising sales, AOL’s chief executive told employees on Monday.

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Appolicious – Hidden in the code of the iPhone app update Facebook just pushed into the iTunes App Store this week is apparently the full, working version of its much-rumored iPad app – and it is accessible right now.

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AFP – A new social networking site for ultra-Orthodox Jews takes customary segregation of the sexes online and also bars pictures or ads deemed immodest in ultra-Orthodox society.

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Reuters – Two brokerages started coverage on Pandora Media Inc with positive ratings citing its exciting long-term growth opportunity, given the growth in Internet radio and the ongoing shift of advertising dollars to the Web and mobile environments.

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Appolicious – After months of speculation about just how Apple would handle various e-book apps in the iTunes App Store and their compliance with its new subscription rules, several popular apps like Kindle and Google Books have either changed how they operate or disappeared.

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Appolicious – Need help tracking money? After the insanity of Comic-Con last week, I know I do. This is why Mint.com Personal Finance’s timely update leads today’s Fresh Apps with the new ability to enter transactions on the fly. Read about this and 5 Degrees, an app for managing your online social relationships, below. After that, it’s time for some fun with Protoxide: Death Race, a futuristic 3-D racer, and Jumping Frenzy, a game that’s all about helping save things leaping out of skyscrapers with the use of a trampoline.

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AFP – Six months after they launched a revolution that ousted the regime, Egyptian bloggers have acknowledged that it takes more than a Facebook page on the Internet to overthrow a dictator.

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Reuters – Google Inc has removed excerpts of customer reviews from sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor from Google Places, its competing online service aimed at helping consumers search for local businesses.

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Mashable – As Lady Gaga stormed the web with promotions for Born This Way this summer — Farmville knockoff, Starbucks virtual scavenger hunt and Gilt Groupe deal included — her presence on one unlikely platform went largely unnoticed.
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, hosted a sale of posters inspired by the album. The pop star commissioned three Etsy artists to design the posters and then signed each one, giving the profits to VH1 Save the Music.

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Reuters – Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city’s electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

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Mashable – Who would know better about how to deal with online scams and swindles than the Better Business Bureau (BBB)? When people are ripped off, the trusted organization is the first place many victims will go to file a complaint, and this infographic shows you the top 10 scams that ensnared unsuspecting victims in the U.S. and Canada last year, as reported to the BBB.
It’s better to ask questions first than file a complaint later, and the BBB tells us that in this infographic, an inquiry consists of “a customer seeking out our business information,” and that generally happens before a purchase. The BBB handles complaints after purchases as well, which are listed separately on the table below.

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AFP – Oracle will get to question Google co-founder Larry Page under terms set by a US judge presiding over a patent suit pitting the business software titan against the Internet giant.

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AP – A federal judge has again reduced the penalty imposed on a Minnesota woman for illegally sharing 24 songs online, this time from $1.5 million to $54,000.

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Mashable – As the death toll mounts in the most horrific violence Norway has seen since World War II, local police have arrested the suspected perpetrator of both the bombing and the shooting at a children’s summer camp. His name is Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old man reportedly spotted at the scene of the bombing. Police believe he was acting alone.
According to multiple news reports in Norway and Sweden, Brievik belonged to Oslo’s extreme right wing. He was a frequent poster in Norwegian right-wing online forums, the accounts said, and had two guns registered to his name. He also appears to have launched a social media presence just days before the attacks.

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Reuters – A problem, for reporters and bloggers trying to cover those launches, is that having seen only brief clips of the films or TV shows, it’s often hard to discuss them in a serious way.

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NewsFactor – Is Apple negotiating to make Hulu part of its growing online empire? According to new reports, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is considering such a bid.

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Mashable – Already using Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.
This month’s hot topic has been, without a doubt, Google+. Whether the new social service from the world’s largest search company will be a “Facebook killer” remains to be seen, but one thing’s for certain: This is one social network you don’t want to ignore.

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Reuters – An American blogger who stumbled upon a near flawless fake Apple Store in China has become an Internet sensation after her post went viral and triggered a feisty debate about piracy in the world’s second largest economy.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing when the Internet retailer reports results next week.

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