Uber is the Übermensch of the sharing economy. It's better at making money than other startups, it knows how to politick better, and it throws sharper elbows. Uber applied the same superior machinations to a press release claiming that Lyft wants to get acquired by Uber.

If Path cannot be Snapchat, then it shall be the world's 9,000th messaging app. Dave Morin just spent some of his shady new funding to acquire a startup called TalkTo. Like the saying goes, you gotta spend your investors' money to lose your investors' money.

Google may have been rejected by Snapchat and WhatsApp, but it's not always in the friend zone. When the SEC inquired about spending overseas profits, Google said it passed on a deal to buy an unnamed foreign company for up to $5 billion. Sure you did.

"I knew that was going to happen. I also knew that I couldn't say anything," MakerBot CEO and cofounder Bre Pettis told Valleywag this morning at the grand opening of the company's new 50,000 sq. ft. production facility in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. Pettis was referring to a question about yesterday's report that MakerBot was in acquisition talks and might sell rather than raise more venture funding.