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it's Tuesday August fourteenth 2012 I'm the often bearded ellis hamburger join me for 90 seconds on the verge google has agreed to buy travel brand frommer's the deal is part of a larger sell off the publisher john wiley & sons that includes CliffsNotes and Webster's new world dictionaries although Google has an expressed interest in any other properties Google hasn't announced any plans with firm is just yet but will bet they roll it into search just like they did with the gat ratings sony continues to inch towards a unified playstation platform the company today announced cross by new initiative that lets you buy a ps3 game and get the Vita version for free supported titles will include the upcoming sly cooper and ratchet & clank sequels as well as the brawler PlayStation all-stars battle royale if you're not familiar with battle royale it's kind of like super smash brothers but with Kratos and Parappa the rapper Kickstarter phenom the pebble smartwatch is alive and it has a working interface the company behind pebble released a video showing off you I work so far linking up with an iPhone or Android device the SmartWatch will offer a simple epaper screen for reading emails controlling music and of course checking the time the design looks clean and relatively uncomplicated focusing on a simple set of vertical scrolling and horizontal swiping movements still no update on when the pebble smartwatch will ships but at least we have some more evidence that it actually exists and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow our exclusive report how I hacked my brain with stimpaks a cautionary tale