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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Skype To Acquire Year-old Group Messaging Service GroupMe — Skype will acquire group messaging service GroupMe, a service that was born at a hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci. — The terms of the deal, including price, aren't being disclosed.
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
GroupMe Acquired by Skype for More than $50 Million — GroupMe just celebrated their one year anniversary, and founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hetch certainly had something to smile about. A deal in the works for months was just completed, with global VOIP giant Skype acquiring GroupMe for a price we hear is north of $50 million.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Skype Buys GroupMe for Text-Based Chatting Services — Skype has agreed to acquire GroupMe, a company that has developed a way to for a group of people to send messages to each across various smartphone platforms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Skype is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP's TouchPad fire sale: The fallout — Summary: HP's TouchPad liquidation sale says a lot about the company, the tablet market and its ability to keep an e-commerce site running. — HP's TouchPad liquidation sale this weekend was telling on multiple fronts as techies drooled over a good deal …
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BetaNews.com / @betanews:
Want a $99 HP TouchPad? They are hard to find. Your best bet is to keep on top of this SlickDeals thread: http://t.co/N3Va7NR
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Phone Arena:
Best Buy does a 180 degree change, will sell HP TouchPad in U.S. stores at fire sale prices
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Dan Ramirez / webOSroundup:
BREAKING: HP Crediting Fire-Sale Difference to Current TouchPad Owners
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Testing LTE in iOS 5 and Hiring More LTE Engineers — Early last week, Boy Genius Report claimed that Apple has been testing a 4G LTE-enabled iPhone with carriers, and pointed to an “internal iOS test build” of one of Apple's major mobile partners. In that build was a property list file (.plist) for LTE.
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Zee M Kane / The Next Web:
Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves — If you're one to check your analytics on a daily basis you may have noticed a pretty sharp increase in referrals from Twitter's “t.co” domains. We noticed it almost immediately on Wednesday but naively didn't pay much attention.
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Ronny Kerr / VatorNews:
StumbleUpon bests Facebook in sharing... maybe
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Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:
HP: What Léo Apotheker's Decisions Mean — Last Monday evening, hours after Google's $12.5B gamble on Motorola Mobile (MMI), I had an intriguing idea and began drafting a Monday Note to explore its ramifications. It started like this: … Building and dismantling the business case …
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Reuters, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider and The Business Insider
Sean Portnoy / Home Theater Blog:
Best Buy's Samsung HDTV and Galaxy Tab combo offer: “Bundling two losing products together”? — Summary: Samsung is the biggest name in 3D TV, and its Galaxy Tab is the best-known Android tablet competitor to the iPad. So when Best Buy decided to bundle a free Galaxy Tab …
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Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre — Bruce Schneier in Beyond Fear coined a phrase: … The Common Names debâcle at Google Plus is a variant of this, where the supposed protections are manifestly not working. Google's stated policy on this is that you should use your ‘common name’ …
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Jamie Zawinski / jwz:
Nym Wars — Yes, yes, let's just get this one out of the way now.
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En passant, Boing Boing and LAUNCH
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Microsoft disables ‘supercookies’ used on MSN.com visitors — New tracking technology a ‘colossal privacy gaffe,’ researcher says — Computerworld - Microsoft said it has disabled an online tracking technology that, according to a Stanford University researcher, allowed the company …
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ITProPortal, GigaOM, Adotas and Digits
Kevin Murphy / Reuters:
Missouri teachers sue to block social media law — (Reuters) - In the face of a lawsuit, a Missouri state senator defended on Saturday a new state law that will prohibit teachers from communicating privately with students over the Internet. — A teachers group filed a lawsuit Friday afternoon contending …
