That's what sources tell All Things Digital. If the deal goes through and that price holds, the acquisition of the social-buying site would Google's biggest ever.
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EC launches antitrust probe against Google
Regulators to probe whether Google abused its dominant position as a search engine by unfairly favoring its own services in search results over those from competitors.
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GE creates home energy unit in smart-grid play
General Electric is targeting home energy efficiency with the combination of its Nucleus home energy monitoring system and connected appliances.
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Epic Mickey seeks to morph mouse into game hero
Disney launches the first Wii game for the iconic character. The company hopes to use the title to raise Mickey Mouse to the level of Mario in the gaming world.
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Toyota to fix heat risk in 650,000 Prius hybrids
Company will repair a coolant pump glitch that could cause the top-selling hybrid to overheat and lose power. The repairs target model years 2004 to 2007.
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Home efficiency gurus at Opower add $50 million
Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners fund Opower to build up its software system for offering home energy efficiency recommendations through utilities.
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Phylos, a game that helps map genetic code
Using a SETI-at-home-like distributed-processing system and a challenging puzzle game, researchers at McGill University are hoping to use human brainpower to map genetic codes.
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Kinect's open-source ambitions
Kinect's role as a tinker toy for garage developers signals a change in how Microsoft is approaching openness in an otherwise closed gaming ecosystem.
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WikiLeaks has U.S. scrambling to plug holes
The idea that a lowly Army private sent WikiLeaks about 750,000 confidential files has the feds scrambling for fixes--and answers.
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Intel confirms special accelerators in Sandy Bridge
An Intel executive confirms that new processor will have built-in circuitry to accelerate media applications, in addition to improved graphics for gaming.
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Now playing in iOS Game Center: Your real name
A quiet change to the terms of service to Apple's iOS feature that links up iPhone game players means that when adding or accepting friends, they get to see the real you.
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Nissan Leaf named 2011 European Car of the Year
Nissan today announced the all-electric Nissan Leaf has been named 2011 European Car of the Year.
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Seagate to remain a public company after all
After announcing its intentions to seek a sale to a private equity firm in October, Seagate decides against it. Instead the hard-drive maker will buy back $2 billion worth of its stock.
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Level 3 takes spat with Comcast public
Level 3 has accused Comcast of forcing it into a deal that violates the FCC's Net neutrality principles as the companies renegotiate a network peering relationship.
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'Fit-to-Flow' fluid connector: Medicine's USB
Biomedical engineers at UC Davis unveil a plug-in interface they compare to USB to connect microfluidics to electronic devices for biological and chemical testing on the go.
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EFF to courts: Don't name alleged porn pirates
Watchdog groups are imploring federal courts in Texas and West Virginia from allowing adult-film studios to name accused file sharers without proving their guilt first.
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The 10 best games of 2010
For a gaming year that started out with a bang, 2010 has stumbled to the finish line. Here are our top 10 best games of 2010.
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Where Stanford invents self-driving cars
Take a tour of the automotive lab where professors, students, and industry partners come together to build projects like Stanley the self-driving SUV and the Pikes Peak Audi.
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Where Stanford reinvents the wheel (photos)
Rafe Needleman peers into the future of cars during a tour of Stanford University's VAIL automotive research facility. Meet Stanley the self-driving SUV and the Pikes Peak Audi.
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Nintendo sells 1.5 million Wii, DS units in a week
Company says offering bundles helped spur sales last week. No word yet on how sales of its hardware for the whole month will compare with last year's figures.
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