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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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The Business Insider, The Tech Trade, Macworld, iPhone, The Register, Techland, VatorNews, IntoMobile, ArcticStartup Posts, About Skype, msnbc.com, MobileBurn.com, PC Magazine and The Big Blog
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Skype bought GroupMe & Why it isn't enough
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The inneractive Blog and WebProNews
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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VentureBeat, Tools, paidContent, TekGoblin, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, GigaOM, Inquirer, The Register, App Advice, Techland, Edible Apple, CNET News, PhoneArena, MacRumors, WebProNews, iClarified, MacStories, Penn-Olson and TiPb
Bloomberg:
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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SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Android Phone Fans and The Next Web
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New York Times:
Motorola's Identity Crisis — Hundreds of framed patents hang on two separate walls at the headquarters of Motorola Mobility in Libertyville, Ill. They testify to the pride in innovation at Motorola, a luminary of American business that has survived corporate crises and enormous technological change.
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Slashdot
Om Malik / GigaOM:
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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NPD Group, mocoNews, The Register, BGR, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, WPCentral.com and WMPoweruser
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, Fortune, Web Strategy …, Examiner and DisplayBlog
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Analysis: HP - Dial “M” for mayhem
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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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Joe Wikert's Publishing … and Guardian
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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CNET News, techPresident, PC World, The Register, Gizmodo, Techland, Softpedia News, msnbc.com, @ljmontgo, Techdirt, 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
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DomainIncite, Thanks:sophoslabs
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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Inquirer, Sydney Morning Herald, TechEye, FT Tech Hub, The Tech Herald … and Boing Boing
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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Gizmodo, AllThingsD, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Electronista
Sean Collins Walsh / New York Times:
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.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
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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Fusible.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Digital Reader, Electricpig.co.uk and Slashdot, Thanks:johnhcook
Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:
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 and Globes Online
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
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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The Tech Trade, TechNodeTechNode and paidContent
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
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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Inquirer, Engadget, Crave, LAPTOP Magazine and Electronista
James Robinson / Guardian:
‘Google needs television industry’ will be message at Edinburgh — Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, is expected to offer television executives an olive branch - and perhaps even some funding — • An open letter from Tess Alps of Thinkbox — When Google's chairman Eric Schmidt gives …
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