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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 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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PC Magazine and About Skype
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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TechnoBuffalo, Shiny Objects, @joshuatopolsky, Pulse2, Liliputing, L.A. Times Tech Blog, @brynaathp, @percival, PC World, @mrgan, Engadget, PC World, Daring Fireball and Crave
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
‘It was like a stampede, and they went quick’ — That's how a Best Buy employee described the line waiting to buy discounted HP TouchPads today outside the Mission Valley store in San Diego. — More than 100 people waited for the store to open, on a Sunday morning, to get one of about 30 TouchPads still in stock.
Bryna Corcoran / @brynaathp:
Just tuning in? #Touchpad on HP online stores in USA are sold out. More coming. Alert site server busy but keep trying: http://t.co/cQkzKCW
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Bits and PC Magazine
Dan Ramirez / webOSroundup:
BREAKING: HP Crediting Fire-Sale Difference to Current TouchPad Owners
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Mashable!, netbooknews.com, ZDNet, Liliputing, Examiner, PhoneArena, Engadget, Kindle Review, PC Magazine, PhoneDog.com, BetaNews, Gizmodo, @bestbuy, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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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AppleInsider and The Business Insider
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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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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Analysis: HP - Dial “M” for mayhem — (Reuters) - Leo Apotheker's credibility as a CEO is falling along with Hewlett-Packard's stock price. — Apotheker, who gained a reputation for sharp business acumen when he headed up SAP, thoroughly flummoxed HP shareholders last week with what some analysts …
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AllThingsD, Pulse2 and Gizmodo
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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Examiner, Redmond Pie, PC World, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, Pulse2, AppleInsider, Electronista and iClarified
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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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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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Chris Saad and TechCrunch
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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
