Peer Car Startups Pair Up: RelayRides Acquires Wheelz

Wheelz had built hardware that helps renters unlock cars with their smartphones.
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Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M

Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a social bookmarking service that had built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices.
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Wavii Shuts Down as It’s Officially Acquired by Google

“While we won’t continue to offer [our] particular service, we’ll be using our natural language research at Google in ways that may be useful to millions of people around the world.”
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WhatsApp: We’re Not Selling to Google

WhatsApp exec says there’s no truth to acquisition rumors.
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NextBus Acquired by Cubic for $20.6M

NextBus, the provider of real-time transit information, was acquired by Cubic Transportation Systems.
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Yahoo Poised to Acquire Content Curation Site Snip.it (Updated)

Another step in its efforts to become a destination for content.
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Google Acquires a Coupon-Targeting Company, Ferrealz

Google has acquired Incentive Targeting, a five-year-old grocery promo-offer company. And yes, this one’s been confirmed. Said a Google spokeswoman, “We look forward to working with Incentive Targeting in our ongoing efforts to help consumers save time and money and enable retailers to deliver relevant discounts to the right customers.”

Telefónica Digital Buys Video Chat Platform TokBox

Telefónica acquires TokBox for its video chat API, and plans to keep the company intact.
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Airbnb Hires the Team Behind Fondu Review App

Airbnb has “acqhired” Fondu, maker of a “bite-size restaurant review” iPhone app.
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With Billions Burning a Hole in Her Pocket, Here Are Some Companies Yahoo’s Mayer Might Be Eyeing (And Buying)

There’s nothing like a big splashy acquisition from a new flashy CEO to get people thinking the troubled Silicon Valley company is cool again.
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Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo

LinkedIn Buys SlideShare for $119M While Beating Earnings Expectations

Loopt’s Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M

Yobongo, Which Launched at Last Year’s SXSW, to Be Acquired and Shut Down

Google Has Taken a Break From Buyouts So Far This Year

Groupon Acquires Travel Search Company Uptake

Q&A: Dropbox Nabs Early Facebook Engineers With Cove Acquisition

Google Buys Alfred Restaurant Recommendation App for Local Team

Twitter Buys Security Hacker’s Android Start-Up

Facebook Picks Up Apple Alum’s HTML5 Start-Up, Strobe

Facebook Acquires Q&A Site Friend.ly Despite Falling Usage