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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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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Skype Pays Around $85 Million For GroupMe — 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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Why Skype bought GroupMe & Why it isn't enough
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The inneractive Blog and WebProNews
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iOS 5 includes early earthquake warning notifications for Japanese iPhone users — Following the devestating earthquake in Japan earlier this year, Apple has added a new early earthquake warning notification option to iOS 5. iOS 5 users in Japan can turn on early earthquake notifications …
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Fortune, VentureBeat, Tools, GigaOM, TekGoblin, paidContent, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Inquirer, Engadget, The Register, TUAW, Techland, Edible Apple, CNET News, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Pulse2, App Advice, WebProNews, MacStories, Penn-Olson, iClarified and TiPb
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Motorola's Value Found in 18 Patents — Among Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.'s more than 17,000 patents, a group of 18 may prove most useful in Google Inc. (GOOG)'s effort to fend off litigation targeting the Android mobile platform. — The inventions date back to 1994 and form the heart …
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Android vs Windows Phone 7: At least one handset maker thinking about it — The blockbuster deal between Motorola and Google is going to be a game-changer, and it will force many of the smaller handset makers to rethink their reliance on Google's Android operating system.
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mocoNews, The Register, 9to5Google, WPCentral.com and WMPoweruser
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The Battle for Tripoli's Internet — As dawn broke in Libya on the morning of Sunday 21 August, it appeared that the battle for control of Tripoli was underway. Throughout the night, a steady stream of tweets and retweets emerged from Libyan sources, painting a confusing, often contradictory picture of the evolving situation.
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Digital Media Wire, techPresident, CNET News, PC World, CNN, Gizmodo, msnbc.com, Techdirt, Techland, @ljmontgo, InfoWorld, Between the Lines Blog and Computerworld UK's News
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Hackers deface Libya's top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message
Hackers deface Libya's top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message
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The Register, ITP.net, Mashable!, Softpedia News and DomainIncite, Thanks:sophoslabs
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business — HP acquired Palm at the end of April 2010, for $1.2 billion. HP's CEO was Mark Hurd. — Three months later, in early August, Mark Hurd was forced to resign over that scandal with forged expenses and lies about his lady friend.
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Internet2Go, PC World, Fortune, Web Strategy …, Examiner and DisplayBlog
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Analysis: HP - Dial “M” for mayhem
Analysis: HP - Dial “M” for mayhem
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AllThingsD, TechEye, Pulse2, Monday Note and Gizmodo
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Former Expedia Employees Raise $8 Million For Travel Search Startup Hopper — Hopper, a Montreal, Canada-based startup, has raised $8 million in fresh funding from Atlas Venture and previous backer Brightspark Ventures to try and ‘reinvent travel search’. — Hopper is still in stealth mode …
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GigaOM, alarm:clock, Pulse2, Tnooz, Profectio and Mass High Tech
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Google Is Still In The $2 Billion+ Hunt For Hulu — Despite the fact that Google is taking on a $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola, the company is still in the hunt for Hulu, the Wall Street Journal reports. — Google joins Amazon, Yahoo, and DirecTV in the bidding process.
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Unleaked: Former WikiLeaks Spokesperson Destroys Over 3,500 Unpublished Documents — Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German technology activist and former spokesperson for whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, announced today that he has destroyed over 3,500 unpublished documents that used to sit …
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Inquirer, Techland, Sydney Morning Herald, TechEye, FT Tech Hub, The Tech Herald … and Boing Boing
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AMD stays the course with new desktop and laptop chips — Advanced Micro Devices is doing something today that seems rather unfashionable. The chip maker is announcing a series of new additions to its desktop and laptop microprocessors. — It seems so mundane to introduce PC chips …
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Computerworld, Inquirer, Engadget, Crave, LAPTOP Magazine and Electronista
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Amazon seeks Lab126 trademarks in advance of expected tablet debut — Amazon.com has quietly applied for trademarks on the name and logo of Lab126 — the internal group behind the Amazon Kindle e-reader and, by all accounts, an upcoming Android tablet from the Seattle company.
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VentureBeat, Internet2Go, Fusible.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Digital Reader, Electricpig.co.uk and Slashdot, Thanks:johnhcook
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Federal Push for ‘Cloud’ Technology Faces Skepticism — WASHINGTON — Before cost-cutting became fashionable in Washington, Vivek Kundra, the White House's chief information officer, was working to shrink the federal government's enormous budget for information technology.
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Google Street View gets the green light in Israel — After nearly being shut down in Switzerland, sued in Oregon, and paying settlements amounting to €100,000 in France and €150,000 in Belgium, the controversial Google Street View is coming to Israel.
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Haaretz, Globes Online and VC Cafe
Paul Taylor / Financial Times:
Lenovo chief puts down Apple channel — Lenovo, the Chinese PC-maker, is looking to challenge Apple's dominance of the tablet computer market with a family of devices designed to appeal to a broader audience than Apple's single iPad model. — “We will be one of the strongest of the players in this area …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, PhoneArena and Electronista
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Sony Ericsson unveils Live with Walkman handset for music-loving Android users — Four months after unveiling the relatively bare bones W8, Sony Ericsson has now taken the wraps off yet another Walkman phone, known as the Live with Walkman. Powered by a 1GHz processor …
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BetaNews, Digital Trends, Tools, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Sony Ericsson, BGR, PalmAddicts, Android Police, Electronista, SlashPhone, Inquirer, Widgets Lab, MobileSyrup.com and AndroidGuys
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Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey — Watching movies on Facebook isn't new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook …
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Softpedia News, Mashable!, Electronista, Fast Company and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
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China's Sina invests up to $40 million in Tudou: source — (Reuters) - China's top online portal Sina Corp has invested between $30-$40 million in Chinese online video site Tudou Holdings, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. — Tudou, which listed on the Nasdaq last week …
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TechNodeTechNode, The Tech Trade and paidContent:UK