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		<title>Uber buys a mapping company, but this isn&#8217;t its first acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uber bought mapping company deCarta today, as first reported by Mashable and confirmed by the on-demand ride company. The San Jose-based startup provides technology for turn-by-turn navigation and local search with its&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>PayPal acquires Paydiant, puts NFC into its Here readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PayPal is buying Paydiant, a startup that provides the mobile payments and loyalty technology used by many big-name retailers use in their apps, for an undisclosed amount. PayPal also announced on&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google buys Softcard, teams up with carriers on mobile payments</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/23/google-buys-softcard-teams-up-with-carriers-on-mobile-payments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google and the mobile carriers have long been at odds over mobile payments, but faced with the runaway success of Apple Pay, the two rivals have become friends. AT&#38;T, Verizon and T-Mobile&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BT agrees to $19B takeover of EE, paving way for close DT relationship</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/02/05/bt-agrees-19b-ee-takeover-paving-way-for-close-dt-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.'s mobile scene in a big way by buying EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for £12.5 billion&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon and Sprint may pick over RadioShack’s remains</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After getting suspended from the New York Stock Exchange, RadioShack is probably headed for bankruptcy, but it looks to have a couple of potential buyers lined up to take over its&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dropbox acquires Pixelapse, a toolset for design management</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/2015/01/dropbox-acquires-pixelapse-a-toolset-for-design-management/</link>
		<comments>http://research.gigaom.com/2015/01/dropbox-acquires-pixelapse-a-toolset-for-design-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pixelapse has announced the company is being acquired by Dropbox: Pixelapse + Dropbox We started Pixelapse with the mission of building the definitive version control and collaboration platform for creatives. Since&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Slack acquires Screenhero for voice, video, and screen sharing</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/2015/01/slack-acquires-screenhero-for-voice-video-and-screen-sharing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slack has announced the acquisition of Y combinator alum Screenhero, and will be integrating that company's voice, video, and screen sharing capabilities into Slack over time. Screenhero will continue to operate&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T to buy Nextel Mexico, continuing continental expansion</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/26/att-to-buy-nextel-mexico-continuing-continental-expansion/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/26/att-to-buy-nextel-mexico-continuing-continental-expansion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T’s plans to tackle the Mexico market aren’t just limited to buying a single mobile operator Iusacell. It announced Monday it is buying Iusacell’s competitor Nextel Mexico for $1.875 billion from&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dropbox acquires Cloudon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've met with two of the founders of Cloudon -- Milind Gadekar and  Jay Zaveri --several times in 2014, and I was unsurprised to learn that Dropbox had stepped forward to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>UK authorities drop HP Autonomy fraud probe</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/19/uk-authorities-drop-hp-autonomy-fraud-probe/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/19/uk-authorities-drop-hp-autonomy-fraud-probe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office has dropped its investigation into Hewlett-Packard's allegations of fraud by the management of British big data firm Autonomy, which HP bought in 2011. In a statement&#8230;]]></description>
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