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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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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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About Skype, IntoMobile and PC Magazine
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Skype bought GroupMe & Why it isn't enough — Skype, the Internet telephony company that is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft says it is buying a year-old group messaging startup, GroupMe. The price tag according to some estimates is $85 million, though Skype and GroupMe have not yet confirmed the deal terms.
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The Big Blog and The inneractive Blog
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, TechEye, Pulse2 and Gizmodo
Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:
HP: What Léo Apotheker's Decisions Mean
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PC Magazine and Gizmodo
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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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
‘It was like a stampede, and they went quick’
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Gizmodo Australia, Electronista, PC World and Crave
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, Pulse2, Liliputing, L.A. Times Tech Blog, @joshuatopolsky, @percival, @brynaathp, Shiny Objects, PC World, @mrgan, Engadget, Daring Fireball, Mashable!, PC World and PhoneArena
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
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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Sydney Morning Herald, FT Tech Hub, WL Central, The Tech Herald … and Boing Boing
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
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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Penn-Olson, MacRumors, TiPb, TekGoblin and iClarified
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter Drew Record Numbers Of U.S. Visitors In July — comScore's July traffic numbers are out and similar to June's findings, Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of U.S. unique visitors in the month. In July, Facebook saw a whopping 162 million unique visitors …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Another EA Exec Jumps Ship To Zynga; Jeff Karp Joins As Chief Marketing And Revenue Officer — Zynga has snagged another EA exec today. The social gaming giant is announcing today that former EA Executive Vice President Jeff Karp is joining as Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer.
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AllThingsD and VentureBeat
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
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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msnbc.com, @ljmontgo and Computerworld UK's News
