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 | Ingrid Lunden Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington News Corp today announced that The Daily, it's iPad-only digital newspaper publication, would be stopping its standalone publication effective December 15,... read more | |  | Matt Burns Your next Mac could be assembled in America. Apple is assembling at least some of the new, ultra-thin iMacs within the USA. The backside stamp containing the... read more | | | |  | John Biggs On December 3rd, 1992 in the little town of Newbury, Berkshire, a UK programmer sent his best mate a few lines of greeting using a unique new technique called... read more | |  | Steve O'Hear Chalk this one up as crazy-stupid or the future: SoPost, a new UK startup launching today, is on a mission to reinvent the postal address by mapping things like... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden At long last, Apple appears to be approaching a launch date for iTunes in Russia -- and it could come as soon as tomorrow. A tipster has forwarded us an email,... read more | |  | Mike Butcher It's so simple and disruptive I wonder why others haven't really tried it. Droplet is a mobile money app on iOS that lets you load cash onto your phone and send... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas Dropbox has become the latest tech company to open an office in Dublin -- land of Guinness and low corporate tax rates. Dropbox said the new office, its first... read more | |  | Matt Burns After mastering the mortgage pitch, Dan Gilbert is now attempting to sell an even bigger product: Detroit.... read more | |  | Steve O'Hear What is it about taxi startups launching in time for LeWeb? Then again, you can't beat a captive audience. And so it is that Taxibeat, the hail-a-cab smartphone... read more | | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
