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Mobile Minutes: LinkedIn acquisition; Samsung in court; Smartwatch company closes; BlackBerry’s last smartphone

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With linkedin, microsoft looks to avoid past acquisition busts
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it had completed its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals.
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Supreme court rules samsung won’t owe apple $400 million over patent violations
The Supreme Court handed Samsung a symbolic victory on Tuesday over its arch-rival Apple in a patent dispute worth $400 million.
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This major smartwatch company is no more
Fitbit, the maker of fitness trackers and smartwatches, announced Wednesday that it was snapping up one of the first smartwatch companies to make it big: Pebble.
Earlier this year BlackBerry decided to move to a licensing model for any new hardware, but a number of devices were still in the production pipeline.
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