Big Buy: IAC?s Match.com Wants To Acquire European Online Dating Site Meetic

IAC-owned Match.com has set its sights on Europe's largest dating site, Meetic.com. Match Match.com has put in a public tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Meetic for ?15.00 per outstanding share in cash (that's $21.42 in U.S. dollars). That's a 11.6 percent increase in value from the closing price of Meetic shares on May 27, 2011 (?13.44) and values the company at nearly $500 million. Match.com actually already owns approximately 27% of the outstanding shares of Meetic, which it obtained when it combined its European businesses with Meetic in 2009. Back then, IAC sold 100 percent of the stock of Match Europe ? the entity that houses Match.com?s European operations ? for an approximate 27 percent stake in Meetic, plus a 5 million euro note.

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Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0 beta now available for download for OS 6 devices

Good news BlackBerry-wielding Social Network fans -- Facebook's BlackBerry app just got an update to 2.0 beta. The new version brings with it a redesigned UI, some new features and Facebook Chat integration.

Highlights include, an improved News Feed, which now lets you scroll through your feed a little easier, and removes the problem of accidental 'Like' clicking. You can now post photos to your Wall, check into Facebook Places and update things, all directly from your News Feed.

The new UI update brings the BlackBerry Facebook app more into line with its iOS cousin feature-wise, with access to the usual profile information including Wall, Info, Photos, and Pages. A drop-down navigation bar has also been implemented, replacing the static nav bar, and is scalable 'to support new features in the future.' The notifications bar has also been given a bit of polish with a BB OS 6 'Today View'-style notification break down page.

Probably the biggest addition, however, has to be the integrated Facebook Chat, which now lets you chat from the Facebook app itself, or the BlackBerry unified mailbox. You'll even get messages with the Facebook app closed as long as you've got your status set to online.

Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0 beta can be downloaded from the BlackBerry Beta Zone (registration required) with limited slots up for grabs. The app is currently only available for devices running OS 6, but future beta releases will push support down to devices running BB OS 4.6 and higher.

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Will someone please develop an anti-texting-while-driving app?

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

Texting while driving is dangerous. Shouldn't some smart developer create an app to stop this practice, using a smartphone's orientation sensors, for profit and public service? There are clunky or costly options, but not truly native apps.

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PSX games now available in the Android Market, if you own an Xperia Play

If you're lucky enough to own an Xperia Play -- Sony Ericsson's new Gingerbread-powered smartphone-cum-gamepad -- you can now buy PlayStation (PSX) titles from the Android Market.

There are five titles currently available, all priced at £3.99: Syphon Filter, MediEvil, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, and Jumping Flash. They don't have an American price yet, but that will surely change once the Xperia Play launches in the States.

Two important questions remain unanswered: How big are these games? The Market descriptions say the games are only 5MB, but that sounds incredibly unlikely -- and more importantly, will it be possible to 'spoof' the Xperia Play and download PSX games onto other Gingerbread-powered phones, like the Nexus S?

In other news, the PlayStation emulator PSX4droid was recently removed from the Android Market. This obviously has nothing to do with today's release of first-party PlayStation games.

PSX games now available in the Android Market, if you own an Xperia Play originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iSites overhauled, now lets you publish cloud-based HTML5 iPhone apps in minutes

iSites -- a zero-code cloud-based 'app creator' -- can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed 'InstantApp', you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android and iOS, and as an HTML5 iPhone app.

We haven't looked at iSites before, but it shot to fame last year when it launched with native iOS and Android support. Self-publishing Android apps wasn't a problem because Google does very little moderation of the Market, but iSites ran into trouble with its iOS apps. Thousands of people signed up for the service after it was featured on Mashable and TechCrunch, and you can imagine Apple's chagrin as thousands of cookie cutter apps flooded its approval queue.

Genwi, the developer behind iSites, realized something had to be done -- it had to circumvent the App Store approval process. Genwi, of course, turned to HTML5 Web apps -- which can be pinned to the iPhone home screen and which can be shoehorned into almost behaving like native apps.

Read on for our experiences with iSites' new InstantApp HTML5 iOS app creator.

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Intermission: Hey You! What Are You Listening To?

A guy (his YouTube handle is TyCullen, so maybe he's named Ty Cullen) walks the streets of New York asking pedestrians with headphones what they're listening to. Listening to music in the crowded Mahattan streets is usually a private, even isolating, enterprise. Cullen's simple project is a nice reminder that there's value in sharing the things we like, and also provides an interesting cultural cross-section of New York pedestrians. Enjoy.

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THE STATE OF GOOGLE (GOOG)

We had In The Plex author Steven Levy as a guest on the SAIcast this week – you should listen, and then go buy his book – and I learned a bunch of new stuff about Google:

• There's a division at the company called "Google X." Google hasn't announced it, but it's a crack team of engineers working on top secret projects – stuff like the self-driving cars, but that you haven't heard about.

• While the rest of us wonder why Google works on silly projects like self-driving cars, Google CEO Larry Page is pulling his hair out over our lack of understanding. He thinks the point of technology is that it can do impossible things, and that's what  Google should be after.

• Larry doesn't want to talk about this stuff with outsiders – on earnings calls, or elswhere – because he believes what you and I don't need to know, we don't need to know. So back off.

• Take away former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and current Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's titles, and it becomes clear that the two of them are doing the exact same job. Schmidt's job was to be, and Sandberg's job is to be, an operations genius building a business organization around young, visionary founders.

• Google is more terrified of Facebook than you know. They are dying over how much information is locked inside Facebook's walls.

• Their plan to beat Facebook – or survive it – is not to build a rival and dominate social network, but to be just "social" enough that Facebook is forced to allow Google to crawl all its data.

• Google desperately wants to buy Twitter. The only thing that's held it back so far are regulatory concerns, and the fact that Twitter's ex-Google founders haven't wanted to return to the Plex.

• Display ads are now a multi-billion dollar business and YouTube is breaking even. But yeah, search is still the only business of theirs that matters.

• Actually, Android is getting close, but you have to remember: Google doesn't actually make any money selling Android to mobile carriers. It gives Android away free.

• Also, Google desperately wants to see Chrome work. Chrome, nothing but a browser, is a more Google-y vision for how the world should work than fat-client-software-based Android is. 

• Google doesn't mind it when the stock price goes down for a while. That makes it easier to hire people on the promise of upside.

These bullets give you a sense of how well the conversation went, but really you should listen to the whole thing (And then go by Levy's book!):

Or download this episode (right click and save)

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• INSIDE GOOGLE: "In The Plex" Author Steven Levy Tells Us Everything
• The First Decent Business Plan We've Heard For Those Google Robot Cars
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