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Despite rumors earlier this year that MOG was getting acquired by HTC, this acquisition hasn't materialized yet.

MSQRD and Facebook are not disclosing the price of the deal, but interestingly, it was only two weeks ago that an investor out of Russia, Eugene Gordeev, posted that MSQRD was getting acquired by Apple for about $117 million.

Last march, when Posterous announced its team was getting acquired by Twitter, founder Sachin Agarwal said his team would provide "ample notice" if the service was going to get closed, and also promised tools to export content to other services such as Tumblr and WordPress "in the coming weeks".

Earlier today we reported that messaging app MessageMe was getting acquired by Yahoo — which MessageMe has now confirmed on its site, along with the inevitable news that the app is shutting down, effective November 7. Now we've also learned some more details.

German mobile startup Cellity is getting acquired by Nokia.

(Incidentally, one of the startups in that space, Tomfoolery, appears to be getting acquired by Yahoo).

Popular video app Flipagram is getting acquired by Chinese company Toutiao for an undisclosed amount.

Companies in existence for two months are getting acquired for their teams.

Companies in the autonomous driving space have been getting acquired early in their development — and are going for huge sums.

Some consolidation in the world of mobile payments and mobile banking: mFoundry is getting acquired by FIS for $120 million.

Whether you were looking for investors or trying to recruit star talent, it's harder to pitch a startup whose only fallback is "getting acquired by Microsoft".