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Yesterday I posted the following Tweet:

I immediately received a response and gave a look at the Apple “Old Stuff” online store.

Ok, you can find some interesting deals and discounted old Macbooks and Macbook Pros (together with iPods and so on) but a question arises: is it worth it?

I mean, you pay $400 less for a previous generation Macbook Pro, for example, but you what you are getting is much less than the new generation.

You get a worse and heavier case, no multitouch, worse display, worse graphics and many other improvements introduced with the new Macbook Pro are not available in the previous version.

So what? I would buy it if I could save not less than $800. Sell it in the range $1000 - $1200 and it works. Otherwise, I would definitely go for the new version.

What do you think? Is the price for “clearance items” fair? Leave your comments.

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Two of the key people of the popular and historical browser Netscape, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, invested in the popular mobile video streaming service Qik.

Both of them joined the Qik’s board of advisors and I believe they will offer a very important contribution to the growth of the company. They have been key figures in Netscape, Ning and Opsware (recently acquired by HP) and this investment proves that the guys at Qik are definitely doing a great job.

The financial terms have not been disclosed, but I believe that’s a secondary aspect of the deal. The contribution of people like those can be priceless sometimes.

Congrats to my friends Bhaskar and Jackie!

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After last week’s rumors, It’s now official: BT bought Ribbit for 105M.

More here.

BT today announced it has acquired Ribbit Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based ‘Telco 2.0′ platform company, for $105 million in cash, on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The acquisition will accelerate BT’s strategy to transform itself into a next- generation, platform-based, software-driven services company.

Congrats to all the Ribbit team!

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The first news that I came across today are about two interesting deals. The biggest one is Google to acquire Digg (seems to be still a rumor, though) while the other is GigaOM to acquire small mobile blog (that I love) jkOnTheRun.

The interesting aspect which both deals have in common is that they are about consolidation of the “news” market, even if it’s pretty clear that the size of the deals is much different. Both companies are not going to re-invent the wheel, but they are bringing value to their products (Google News and the GigaOM Network) by integrating well known and already successful services.

I believe we will see more deals like these in the following months, the “consolidation” process is just beginning and, in addition, many VCs which invested in the web 2.0 world are eagerly looking for exits. Stay tuned.

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According to some rumors, it seems the #1 Web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, is in talk with AOL for a possible acquisition. The deal value should be in the range of $20-30M.

Not sure whether this rumor has really a solid base or not, anyway since Michael Arrington lives his life dealing with rumors, I think we can play with this rumor as well

BTW, I believe TechCrunch is worth much more!

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According to trusted sources it seems that Ribbit has been acquired by the incumbent british telecom operator BT. Ribbit was launched a couple of months ago and they defined themselves as the Silicon Valley’s First phone company. It seems the deal has not been finalized yet, but should be close to the final step.

I’ve been in touch with Don Thorson @ Ribbit and watched their wonderful demo during EComm 2008. It’s one of the most impressive demos I watched and I believe that their strategy, based on creating a huge base of developers using their APIs, has been winning.

British Telecom is known as one of the most innovative operators which was the first to plan how to replace the revenues coming from traditional telephony with other revenue streams coming from new IP based innovative services. Happy to see Ribbit becoming an important piece of BT’s innovative strategy.

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San Francisco based web search engine Ask.com acquired Lexicon Publishing Group, owners of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.

Even if Google dominates the web search market, it seems there is still space for Ask.com to consolidate its position and increase their market share.

Ask.com said the deal expands its monthly audience by around 15 million users to 145 million, an increase of 11 percent. Based on March traffic data from comScore Inc, that would make Ask.com the ninth-largest Web property globally.

According to sources, the deal is all cash but terms have not been disclosed.

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