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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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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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SAI, GeekWire and The Next Web
Mike Harrison / Bloomberg:
AT&T Agrees to Buy Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA Unit for $39 Billion — AT&T Inc. (T) said it entered a definitive agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) to acquire T- Mobile USA in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion.
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, eMoney, SAI, BGR, New York Times, blogs.forbes.com, @alex_perez, @bsargentokc, @woodstock, @markguim 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 and @jamesurbaniak, more at Mediagazer »
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Mike Taylor / Betabeat:
Hashable Is Worthless — If there's one thing I hate …
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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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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
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.
Aileen Lee / TechCrunch:
Why Women Rule The Internet — Editor's note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan Stanley.
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Don Dodge on The Next …, Thanks:jancoo7
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, @jeffreydroseman, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, 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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Howard Lindzon, 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 …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Big Mobile Data Dive From SMX West — I moderated the three mobile sessions on mobile at SMX West earlier this month: Mobile Search Ads, Location Services: The New Local Search? and Mobile Apps. A ton of great advice, stats and data came out of these sessions; you had to be fast to get it all.
