Techmeme: An Illustrated Guide To Searching For Shared, Tweeted & “Realtime” Images (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

7:35 PM ET, March 20, 2011

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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

AT&T Buying T-Mobile USA In $39 Billion Deal — AT&T just announced a deal to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash and stock deal worth $39 billion. — The deal would make AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier by a wide margin, so it will probably face significant government scrutiny …

Business Wire:

AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom — Provides Fast, Efficient and Certain Solution to Impending Spectrum Exhaust Challenges Facing AT&T and T-Mobile USA in Key Markets Due to Explosive Demand for Mobile Broadband — Enhances Network Capacity, Output and Quality in Near Term for Both Companies' Customers

Om Malik / GigaOM:

In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses — The lull of my lazy, rainy weekend was broken by the news that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion in cash and stock. Who wins and who loses in this deal? It's hard to find winners, apart from AT&T and T-Mobile shareholders.

Discussion: Fortune, mocoNews and Daring Fireball

T-Mobile Newsroom:

Q&A: More Information About AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile USA — An agreement was announced under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA. The agreement is the first step in a process that, including regulatory approvals, is expected to be completed in approximately 12 months.

Discussion: CNET News, Engadget, Mobilized, Fortune, TmoNews, Electronista, BerryReview.com and Android and Me

Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

AT&T-Mobile: Here Are The Biggest Winners And Losers — AT&T just announced a deal to acquire rival T-Mobile USA in a $39 billion transaction. — If the government eventually approves the deal, it's good news for AT&T, which will have a significant size advantage over its archrival Verizon Wireless.

Discussion: Light Reading and Gizmodo

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Exclusive: T-Mobile USA CEO to employees: Sale to AT&T the ‘best possible solution’ — The proposed sale of T-Mobile USA to AT&T, announced this afternoon, surprised not only the industry but also many of T-Mobile's employees. In an email to those employees this afternoon, Philipp Humm …

Discussion: mocoNews, TechCrunch and Mobilized, Thanks:rawmeet

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
T-Mobile: We Were Totally Kidding About AT&T's Crappy Network!

Discussion: CNET News, techblog.dallasnews.com, Fortune and Epicenter

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile will test antitrust law

Discussion: Mobilized and @dangillmor

Ina Fried / Mobilized:
AT&T's President on Why T-Mobile Deal Should Pass Muster and Won't be a Customer Nightmare

Discussion: FierceWireless, Sidecut Reports and FierceWireless

Snaptu blog:

We've agreed to be acquired by Facebook! — The Snaptu team is excited to announce today that we recently agreed to be acquired by Facebook. — Our goal when we founded Snaptu in 2007 was to provide useful and innovative services to the 95 percent of mobile users that don't have access to advanced smart phones.

Discussion: Inside Mobile Apps, Friending Facebook Blog, All Facebook, mocoNews, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Mashable!, VC Cafe, Yahoo! News, CNET News, MediaMemo and Electronista, Thanks:sidharthdassani

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Confirmed: Facebook Acquires Snaptu (For An Estimated $60 - $70 Million) — According to several Israeli business newspapers (TheMarker, Calcalist) Facebook has acquired Snaptu for an estimated $60 - $70 million, although some reports peg the price lower, at around $40 million.

Discussion: SAI, Pulse2, GeekWire and The Next Web

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Why the Quick Bar ("dickbar") is still so offensive — Twitter's official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter's Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot of negative reactions from the recent addition of the Quick Bar, a mandatory trending-topics banner on top of the tweet list.

Discussion: Jeff Rock, @fionasrotties, @jeffitup and TechCrunch

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

An Illustrated Guide To Searching For Shared, Tweeted & “Realtime” Images — Looking for images that are being shared and posted in realtime? That image search space has gotten more competitive, as Nachofoto reenters the field. Below, what it offers, along with general realtime image searching tips using …

Elizabeth Spiers / Spiersblr:

HOW NOT TO INTERACT WITH THE MEDIA 101, courtesy of Hashable CEO, Mike Yavonditte: — 1. See a negative op-ed about your company wherein the author uses a metaphor describing you being a velvet rope telling people they're not “Hashable” enough. — 2. Utterly fail to grasp metaphor.

Discussion: @hashablepr, @mikeyavo, @lock, @mikeyavo, @benhuh and @jamesurbaniak

Mike Taylor / Betabeat:
Hashable Is Worthless — If there's one thing I hate …

Discussion: @coreypein

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