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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.
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SAI, All Facebook, CNET News, Digital Trends, mocoNews, MediaMemo, Electronista and Mashable!, Thanks:sidharthdassani
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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.
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GeekWire and The Next Web
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.
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@benhuh, @hashablepr, @mikeyavo, @lock, @mikeyavo, @jamesurbaniak and Betabeat, more at Mediagazer »
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Mike Taylor / Betabeat:
Hashable Is Worthless — If there's one thing I hate more than burning my potatoes when I'm trying to create an awesome breakfast moment with a lady I met the night before, it's Hashable, the application that lets users flaunt their social connections by broadcasting updates on their every encounter.
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@coreypein
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Apple's Safari Browser Gives Search Marketers Headaches — Apple's dominance on tablets and smartphones presents a threat to accurately measure and optimize the performance of paid-search marketing campaigns. — Search firm Marin Software published a white paper Tuesday based on findings …
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TUAW
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock? — Given the awesome correlating powers of today's stock trading computers, the idea may not be as far-fetched as you think. — A couple weeks ago, Huffington Post blogger Dan Mirvish noted a funny trend: when Anne Hathaway was in the news …
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Neatorama
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Launches $10,000 Startup Referral Program For Employees — If you're a Google employee and you know about a stealth startup that wants funding, you can pocket a cool $10,000. The Google Ventures team announced the new program at Google's weekly all-hands “TGIF” meeting, earlier this afternoon.
Laura Kusisto / Betabeat:
Apple Sour on Grand Central — Apple's plans to bring the world's largest iStore to Grand Central always seemed to defy all laws of taste, landmarks preservation and possibly even physics. — Apparently, Apple has reached the same conclusion, because a source close to the M.T.A. has confirmed …
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Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, @jeffreydroseman, Curbed NY, DNAinfo.com and Electronista
Fred / A VC:
The War For Talent — Steve Blank says in his New Rules For The New Internet Bubble: … I'm hearing this from everyone I know in Silicon Valley. And you can see the evidence on the web. — Joshua Schachter posted this on his twitter feed yesterday. This is what a new developer gets when they show up at work at Tasty Labs.
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StartupMuse and San Francisco Chronicle
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Do not track tools push firms to crossroad — Hundreds of millions of Web surfers finally have the ability to easily tell marketers they don't want their online activities monitored. — Microsoft's updated Internet Explorer browser released on Tuesday and the new version of Mozilla's Firefox set …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
RIP Digg. — Startups in Silicon Valley are like old generals. They don't die anymore, buoyed on life-rafts of lingering venture capital and modest revenues. They just fade away, eventually purchased for assets that are a shadow of their former promise. It's pretty clear that Digg is on that path.
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Soshable, Webmetricsguru, The Next Web, Computerworld, BlogsDNA, louisgray.com, @marshallk, @kevinrose, @jason, @rafat, The Raw Story, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Edible Apple and @kevinrose
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift — It Could Shift An Industry — Three years ago, if you had asked people to choose between cable television and Netflix, the vast majority would have laughed at you. A DVD-by-mail service versus thousands of pieces of content always at your fingertips?
Steve Blank:
New Rules for the New Internet Bubble — We're now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble.
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Howard Lindzon and p2pnet
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Paul Kedrosky / Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again
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