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Day of Billion Dollar Buyouts: Facebook Acquires Instagram, Microsoft Buys AOL Patents

Place yer bets!

It’s a big money day in tech news, as two separate billion dollar transactions have been announced. Early this morning, AOL announced the sale of 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion in cash. “The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our patent portfolio,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s Chairman […]

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Olde Tyme Techcitement: A CD In Every Mailbox!

Olde Tyme Techcitement: A CD In Every Mailbox!

Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. Remember the days of the early internet when you could pretty much count […]

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