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To: richardred who wrote (2343)	8/25/2010 2:03:50 PM
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Didn't see this company listed. New buy today TDC-TERADATA-Had a stub left over from NCR spin-off. Rounded-off and added.

To: richardred who wrote (2343)	8/29/2010 11:04:24 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 7242

Google acquires Angstro, adds founder to team Written by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz @ 29 Aug 2010 22:16 Google acquires Angstro, adds founder to team Google has acquired the Web start-up Angstro this week while also moving co-founder Rohit Khare to the Google team. The search giant has been in an acquisition frenzy over the past few months, purchasing a plethora of sites and services that will help their upcoming assault on the social networking world and its champion Facebook. Khare is a respected Internet researcher and entrepreneur. Earlier in the summer, Google purchased the social gaming siteSlide, while recruiting its founder Max Levchin to become a VP of engineering for social media efforts. Levchin was the co-founder of PayPal. Google has also invested $150 million in social gaming market leader Zynga. The social networking service, dubbed "Google Me" internally is still in "stealth mode" and Google will not publicly discuss it. Google versus Facebook has become a hot-topic in the tech world, with many believing Facebook will soon start its own advertising network to rival Google's AdSense, while Google prepares its full assault on the social networking world. afterdawn.com

To: richardred who wrote (2343)	8/29/2010 11:12:41 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 7242

Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our more reliable sources. We have not been able to confirm this rumor one way or another via other sources, which isn’t surprising. A company in lock down during the IPO process is usually even more tight lipped than normal. But if true this would be one very big acquisition. Skype insiders are hoping for an out of the gate valuation of $5 billion or so, we’ve heard. Presumably Cisco would have to bidding in that range to make it interesting. Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype, but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual offer. More as this develops. techcrunch.com