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Gawker Meeting With FBI Tomorrow About Hacking Case

Yesterday, the New York Post reported the FBI would be visiting Gawker today.

That didn't happen, but Gawker's tech boss Tom Plunkett should meet with the FBI tomorrow at the FBI's offices, says Nick Denton over email to us.

We don't know why Gawker is meeting with the FBI.

(Apart from it having something to do with Gawker being hacked. We don't think the FBI typically meets with websites that are hacked.)

Denton speculates, "it's part of a wider investigation."

When we asked him if it was a wider investigation into hacking he said, "Dunno! Ask them!"

We've emailed the FBI and will update this post if we hear anything back.

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See Also:

• The FBI Is Now Involved In The Gawker Hacking Case
• Nick Denton Says Gawker Didn't Respond To Hack Sooner Because 'We Were Somewhat In Shock'
• Gawker.com Hacked! (Yes, Again)

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Groupon's Board Is Meeting Wednesday To Decide Whether To Take Google's $6 Billion Offer

Groupon's board is having a conference call on Wednesday to decide whether to take Google's humongous offer ($5.3 billion, plus a $700 million earnout, according to Kara Swisher), Amir Efrati and Geoffrey Fowler of the WSJ say.

Unless Groupon's board has gone stark-raving mad, the answer should be "yes."

As we discussed earlier, this is a whopping huge pile of money for a 2-year old company, even one growing as fast as Groupon. Still, it's a smart move for Google, whose core business is maturing and whose cash $33 billion of cash is rotting away on its balance sheet.

Integrating the two companies will be very challenging, as it is hard to imagine two more different cultures.  (Engineering in Google's case, sales and marketing in Groupon's).

But integration isn't Groupon's board's problem...

See Also: Here's How Google Could Instantly Ruin Groupon After It Buys It

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See Also:

• Proof Groupon Still Has LOTS Of Room To Grow
• Here's Google's Real Offer For Groupon: $6 Billion ($5.3 Billion Plus $700 Million Earnout)
• Tour Groupon, The Funniest Startup We've Ever Been To (PHOTO TOUR)

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SMB Tech Roundup: Google Boost, Hotpot and Docs, Plus Android Meeting Apps and IT Security News

Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why at the end of every week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.

There was a slew of announcements from Google this week pertaining to SMBs, starting with Monday's unveiling of Hotpot, a recommendation engine for Google Places. In what many see as Google's answer to Yelp, Hotpot recommends nearby places to users based on how they and their friends have rated local businesses in the past.

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On Tuesday, Google made the announcement that Google Boost, a simplified new search advertising program, has been rolled out in 11 new cities. After an apparently successful pilot program in San Francisco, Houston and Chicago, Boost is now available in San Jose, Seattle, Wichita, Charlottesville (Virgina), Atlanta, Chapel Hill, Orlando, Washington D.C., Boston, Cross Plains (Texas) and Portland (Maine).

Also on the Google front, users of Google Docs were delighted Wednesday to learn that the ability to edit Google Docs from mobile devices became reality, two months after the feature was originally announced. Documents stored on Google's cloud-based office suite can now be edited from Android or iOS phones and tablets.

Speaking of tablets, this week we saw the first online meeting app for Android tablets when Fuze Box announced the latest version of Fuze Meeting, which has been available on the iPad and iPhone for a few months.

Here on ReadWriteBiz, we discussed a recent survey from AVG showing that over 50% of SMBs do not have IT security guidelines in place. While the vast majority of small companies are aware of the need for tight Internet security, a startling number of respondents said they did not have any security measures in place.

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