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Google purchasing Fitbit for US$2.1 billion

Google is looking to bolster its wearables stable and be able to introduce Made by Google wearable devices with its purchase of...

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Fleksy Acquired By Pinterest, Will Be Open-Sourcing Some Components

File this one under weird acquisitions: Fleksy, one of the first third party keyboards for mobile devices, has been acquired by Pinterest. The...

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[UPDATED] BlackBerry Not In Talks With Samsung

BlackBerry and Samsung announced a security partnership last November which would see BlackBerry’s security platform integrated with the security software in Samsung’s Galaxy...

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Google X Buys Gecko Design Adds To Its Designer Inventory

Google continues to flex it’s purchasing muscles, this time around acquiring design talent for Google X in the form of Gecko Design...

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Oracle Picks Up LiveLOOK To Beef Up Their Cloud Services

Oracle announced the purchase of LiveLOOK – a real-time, visual collaboration technology for co-browsing and screen sharing. Of course the deal isn’t solidified...

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Twitter Acquires Ad Specialist Namo Media

Twitter’s latest endeavor has been to find a way to seamlessly integrate advertisement with its services, especially its mobile apps. The 140-characters-or-less...

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