Mergers & Backquisitions

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Groupon buys Pelago-owned Whrrl.



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Demand Media buys CoverItLive



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Tagged buys Digsby (essentially a more efficient, more on-top-of-it Trillian)
     About Tagged: "Other social networks are for staying in touch with people you already know. At Tagged, we make it easy to meet new people through social games, friend suggestions, browsing profiles, group interests and much more."
     About Digsby:          

• One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
• Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
• Rename contacts with an alias so you don't have to remember buddy names like 'giantsfan123'.
• If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
• Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
• The InfoBox lets you check everyone's status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
• Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!
• Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM's. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
• Log conversation history and find the information you need with our search-enabled log viewer.

...and you were worried about Apple "tracking" you!

Please comment if we need to add anything.