Twitter Acquires Mixer Labs

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Twitter: Now One Acquisition Closer to Improved Stalking!

by Kara Swisher

Full disclosure: BoomTown is several hours into the spiked eggnog here at All Things Digital Worldwide HQ, so our headlines are 100 percent spikier!

All joking aside and without much blabbery from me, you can read the entire blog post below from Twitter on a new purchase.

The microblogging service ( oops, information network! ) just acquired Mixer Labs, maker of GeoAPI , which helps developers build location-based services.

Thus, Mixer will help Twitter in the geo-location arena–now a hot pocket of hype and, to be fair, innovation. Mixer also has TownMe , a local information Web site.

Twitter declined to reveal the price it paid for Mixer Labs, but this looks a lot like a basic talent hire that many Web companies do.

Thus, Mixer will join Twitter at its new San Francisco offices (you can see my ...

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