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		<title>Facebook + Instagram = one big acquisition flop</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. Facebook&#8217;s acquisition of Instagram hasn&#8217;t even been finalized yet and I&#8217;m already calling it a complete waste of a billion dollars. How can I say that? Easy. Let&#8217;s look at the facts, shall we? Facebook paid about $28 for each of Instagram&#8217;s 35 million users. As such things go, that doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple’s Android nightmare: Google’s Motorola purchase gets EU OK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two major kinds of patent lawsuits. On the one side, there are the patent trolls, like Eolas making fundamental Web technology claims . Here, the idea is to use flimsy patents to collect hundreds of millions from the businesses that actually use ideas to make a product or service. Then, there’s what Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leo Apotheker&#8217;s HP never wanted webOS to succeed</title>
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