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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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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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Skype bought GroupMe & Why it isn't enough
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The inneractive Blog and WebProNews
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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The Register, mocoNews, OStatic blogs, 9to5Google, WPCentral.com and WMPoweruser
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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Digital Media Wire, CNET News, techPresident, CNN, InfoWorld, msnbc.com, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Techland, @ljmontgo, Computerworld UK's News and Between the Lines Blog
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Hackers deface Libya's top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message
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The Register, ITP.net, Mashable!, Softpedia News and DomainIncite, Thanks:sophoslabs
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
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TechEye, AllThingsD, Pulse2 and Gizmodo
Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:
HP: What Léo Apotheker's Decisions Mean
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Daring Fireball and Guardian
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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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Former Expedia Employees Raise $8 Million For Travel Search Startup Hopper — Hopper, a Montreal, Canada-based startup, has raised $8 million in fresh funding from Atlas Venture and previous backer Brightspark Ventures to try and ‘reinvent travel search’. — Hopper is still in stealth mode …
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VatorNews, GigaOM, alarm:clock, Pulse2, Tnooz, Profectio and Mass High Tech
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Microsoft gets over 500 responses to webOS recruitment attempt — Looks like Microsoft's Brandon Watson got more than he expected when he Tweeted about webOS devs switching to Windows Phone. In a follow up Tweet, he notes the overwhelming response:
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@brandonwatson, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Pulse2, WinRumors, All New Musings, WinRumors and Techie Buzz
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.
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TechFlash and FierceVoIP
Brian Heater / Engadget:
HP TouchPad tops Amazon US sales, rumored for UK price drop — Well, it's official, the TouchPad is currently the hottest piece of consumer electronics around, and all it took was HP's complete abandonment of its current line of webOS devices. The once maligned slate is currently atop Amazon's electronics sales list.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
‘It was like a stampede, and they went quick’
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Inquirer, ReadWriteWeb, Mark Evans Tech, Gizmodo Australia, TeleRead, Computerworld and PhoneArena
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Fox's 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge — One of the main motivations for people to download and stream TV-shows from unauthorized sources is availability. If fans can't get a show through legal channels they turn to pirated alternatives. — This is one of the reasons …
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Gizmodo, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb and SplatF
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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VentureBeat, Internet2Go, The Business Insider, Fusible.com, SlashGear, The Digital Reader, The Next Web, Electricpig.co.uk and Slashdot, Thanks:johnhcook
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey — Watching movies on Facebook isn't new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook …
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Jay Yarow / SAI:
Google Is Still In The $2 Billion+ Hunt For Hulu — Despite the fact that Google is taking on a $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola, the company is still in the hunt for Hulu, the Wall Street Journal reports. — Google joins Amazon, Yahoo, and DirecTV in the bidding process.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Makes iOS Apps Speedier, No Longer Requires Signatures For Transactions Under $25 — Disruptive mobile payments company Square has pushed a number of new updates to its iPhone and iPad apps today and rolled out a redesigned and updated website. First, the apps are speedier and transaction speed has improved, says the company.
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ReadWriteWeb, MacStories and TUAW
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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Computerworld, Inquirer, Engadget, Crave, LAPTOP Magazine and Electronista
Mark Gurman / 9to5Google:
Verizon plans to take 300MB for $20/m data plan nationwide this holiday season — Late last week, Verizon introduced a new 300MB data plan for $20/month for the carrier's mid-Atlantic region. This covers Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia and North Carolina.
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VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web and everythingiCafe
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft allies Ford and Toyota to collaborate on technology standards — Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is introduced to his new car by Ford's Alan Mulally (Microsoft file photo) — A new partnership announced between Ford and Toyota this morning is attracting lots of attention …
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SiliconFilter, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and DailyTech
