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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 Register, VatorNews, The Big Blog, ArcticStartup Posts, About Skype, MobileBurn.com, IntoMobile and PC Magazine
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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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
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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GigaOM, Inquirer, The Register, App Advice, MacRumors, MacStories, TekGoblin, TiPb, Penn-Olson and iClarified
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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Computerworld, Techdirt, Softpedia News, msnbc.com, @ljmontgo, InfoWorld, Between the Lines Blog and Computerworld UK's News
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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Fast Company, The Next Web, The Digital Reader and Electricpig.co.uk, Thanks:johnhcook
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.
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, TechEye, FT Tech Hub, The Tech Herald …, WL Central and Boing Boing
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 …
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digiday:DAILY, Marketing Pilgrim and Softpedia News, more at Mediagazer »
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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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.
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Gizmodo Australia and PC World
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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, Pulse2, Liliputing, @percival, @joshuatopolsky, @brynaathp, BetaNews, Engadget, @mrgan, @brynaathp, PC World, Daring Fireball and PhoneArena
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP's TouchPad fire sale: The fallout
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Laptops and Desktops Blog, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Inquirer, Guardian, InformationWeek, PC World, Digits, Bits, TeleRead, CloudAve, The Digital Reader, TUAW, @harrymccracken and @triciad
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
Google fined in Brazil for refusing to reveal bloggers' identities — Google wants to force people to use their real names online, say many Google+ detractors. Yet, it's precisely for defending three bloggers' right to anonymity that its Brazilian subsidiary was fined this Thursday by a local judge.
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.
