J2 Global Communications Inc.


acquired

Ireland-based messaging services provider YAC Limited. No financial terms of the deal were released. Nearly all of YAC’s business is done within the United Kingdom, J2 of Los Angeles said in a release.

Amp’d Mobile

, which is reorganizing in bankruptcy court, is in danger of being

unplugged

from Verizon Wireless, the carrier that provides its cellular network. Verizon said it is frustrated by Amp’d Mobile’s failure to pay for its daily service, which Verizon said amounts to $370,000 a day. Since its bankruptcy 45 days ago, Amp’d has racked up nearly $16 million in charges for use of the network and has used up nearly all $350 million of its initital investments.