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Twitter just announced that it has acquired Posterous, the popular minimalist blogging service. Posterous’ services will remain up and running for the time being and the company’s blog promises to “give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service.” The Posterous team will join Twitter and
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Google just acquired Katango, a service that can automatically organize your friends on social networks into groups. Katango only launch its first product, a Facebook-focused iPhone application, this July. At the time, I already thought that Katango was really more of a feature than a product and that “I wouldn’
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For months now, we have heard rumors about TweetDeck being bought by either UberMedia or Twitter. Lately, the rumors pointed towards an acquisition by Twitter (for around $40 million). Today, Twitter finally confirmed this acquisition in a short blog post. It’s interesting that Twitter notes that TweetDeck “provides brands,
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The Wall Street Journal today reported on a rumor that Twitter is “in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck,” the popular Twitter client for the desktop and browser. Neither Twitter nor TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth have responded to these rumors. As much as I would prefer to see a healthy ecosystem
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After a few hours of wild speculation, TechCrunch founder and co-edit Mike Arrington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong just announced that AOL has indeed acquired TechCrunch. According to Arrington, TechCrunch will be a fully owned subsidiary of AOL, but his team will have no "editorial boundaries" and AOL
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According to Om Malik and the Wall Street Journal, AOL is in the process of acquiring TechCrunch, arguably the world’s foremost technology blog. For the time being, this is only a rumor, but with sources like GigaOm and the WSJ, it sure feels like a very solid rumor. It’