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"There are a lot of sweet patents in that portfolio."
-- Dean Becker, ICAP Patent Brokerage CEO, on Motorola Mobility's (MMI) 17,000 patents. (Bloomberg)

* Arik Hesseldahl over at All Things D does the math and guestimates that HP (HPQ) could be losing anywhere between $140 million and $300 million just on TouchPad-related hardware costs. (All Things D)

HP Executive Vice President Todd Bradley

* Meanwhile, HP Executive Vice President Todd Bradley may be aggressively seeking a CEO job elsewhere. (Business Insider)

* Piracy of Fox shows has more than doubled after the network changed its licensing rules to include an eight day delay between the time those shows air and free Hulu users can actually watch them. (TechCrunch)

* New York-based venture capital firm Thrive Capital, founded by 25-year-old Josh Kushner in 2009, has raised $40 million for its second fund. The news comes a day after the announcement that Skype would be acquiring group-messaging startup GroupMe, one of the companies in Thrive's portfolio. (Fortune)

* How group listening rooms (think Turntable.fm) is heating up the web music scene. (Wired)

* HTC's latest batch of smartphones -- the 3.7-inch Eternity for AT&T (T)and the 4.5-inch Omega for T-Mobile USA -- will reportedly come loaded with Windows Phone 7. (Boy Genius Report)

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Posted in: GroupMe, Hewlett-Packard, Joshua Kushner, Motorola Mobility, Thrive Capital, Todd Bradley, TouchPad

• GroupMe turns to advertising, sort of

  The group messaging startup will offer slickly branded groups promoting bands, TV shows, and concerts. In other words: sponsors. Will users love or loathe the idea?

  By Daniel Roberts, reporter

  At the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin this month, while speaking about the recent heavy influx of platforms that offer group text messaging, Ted Livingston, CEO of KIK, told CNNmoney, "The four big [companies] that all the blogs talk about is us, MORE

  Mar 28, 2011 9:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Bon Jovi, Daniel Roberts, Fast Society, GroupMe, Jared Hecht, MC Hammer, Steve Martocci, SXSW Interactive, The End (Lost)

• Today in Tech: Why I hate Verizon's iPhone, Yahoo selling Delicious

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  Jonathan Geller of Boy Genius Report documents his tortured experience switching from AT&T's iPhone to Verizon's. Now before readers accuse Geller of being anti-Big Red, bear in mind he's been dreaming about the Verizon iPhone for the last three years. But the reality of his situation kicked MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 18, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Boy Genius Report, Delicious, Facebook, GroupMe, iPhone, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Near Field Communication, New York Times, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Yahoo

• How Facebook plans to bust up the SMS profit cartel

  In acquiring Beluga, Mark Zuckerberg has set Facebook's sights on cell companies' most overpriced service: text messaging.

  Under the cell phone industry's peculiar pricing system, downloading data to your smartphone is amazingly cheap—unless the data in question happens to be a text message. In that case the price of a download jumps roughly 50,000-fold, from just a few pennies per megabyte of data to a whopping $1000 or so per megabyte.

  In that giant MORE

  Scott Woolley - Mar 4, 2011 10:50 AM ET
  Posted in: Beluga, Beluga whale, Facebook, GroupMe, Herb Kohl, Mark Zuckerberg, Text messaging, Verizon

• GroupMe and the rise of group everything

  The group texting app is cool, but even the founders know it's less about the SMS and more about the power of groups.

  By Daniel Roberts, reporter

  If you've ever wanted to text a group of people all at once, you suddenly have a host of services to choose from. Apps that allow you to create a text message group have erupted in recent months, and venture capitalists have taken careful note MORE

  Jan 20, 2011 2:31 PM ET
  Posted in: Brightkite, Daniel Roberts, Fast Society, GroupMe, iPhone, Jared Hecht, Lerer Ventures, Steve Martocci, SV Angel