Analysis: Google/Motorola could be peak of patent price spikeReuters - Poornima Gupta, Bill Rigby - 22 Aug, 2011SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) - The bubble in mobile phone technology patent values may just have popped. Now that Google Inc (GOOG.O) has agreed to a $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc (MMI. ... |
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Android, iOS gain share on BlackBerry: reportMarketWatch - Dan Gallagher - 22 Aug, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) â€" Mobile operating systems from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. gained market share in the US during the second quarter while Research In Motion Ltd. slipped, according to data from NPD Group ... |
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Motorola's Value for Google Found in 18 Patents Used Against Apple: TechBloomberg - Brian Womack, Susan Decker - 22 Aug, 2011Motorola Mobility, which created the consumer market for mobile phones with the DynaTAC 8000X “brick” in 1983, and Apple, which reinvented the industry with the “smart” iPhone in 2007, ... |
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After Google, now Motorola faces identity crisisNDTV.com - 22 Aug, 2011Hundreds of framed patents hang on two separate walls at the headquarters of Motorola Mobility in Libertyville, Illinois. They testify to the pride in innovation at Motorola, a luminary of American business that has survived corporate crises and ... |
Apple, Google See Slight Gain In Q2 US Smartphone ShareBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 22 Aug, 2011Research firm NPD this morning reports slight gains in Q2 smartphone sales in the US for both Google's (GOOG) “Android” operating system and for Apple's (AAPL) “iOS,” with the former rising to 52% of all smartphone sales compared to 50% ... |
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The NPD Group: As Android Solidifies Lead, Google Acquisition Has Potential to ...San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - 22 Aug, 2011According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Google's Android operating system (OS) continued to dominate US smartphone market share, accounting for 52 percent of units sold in the second quarter (Q2) of 2011. ... |
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Motorola Mobility workers to make out on stock options in Google dealChicago Tribune - 22 Aug, 2011The $12.5-billion sale of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. to Google Inc. will provide a long-awaited reward for Motorola employees who survived the double whammy of recession and restructuring. Motorola Mobility accepted a $40-a-share offer last week ... |
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Smartphone patent wars heat up: Microsoft v. MotorolaWashington Post (blog) - Cecilia Kang - 22 Aug, 2011The Google Inc. homepage is seen on a Motorola Holdings Inc. mobile device, running on Google's Android software, in Park Ridge, Illinois, US (Tim Boyle - BLOOMBERG) Microsoft's patent infringement complaint against Motorola will be ... |
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Google Buys Motorola Mobility...And So Begins The Dark AgesForbes - 22 Aug, 2011Last week I finally, finally purchased a Motorola D3 smartphone. I'm loving it! And I'm loving Google! So you'd think that I'd be loving the news that Google is purchasing Motorola's cell phone business, right? I'm not. This is like the beginning of ... |
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Networks, handset makers vie for mobile dominanceRegister - Bill Ray - 22 Aug, 2011WebOS is all but dead, and died without apparently leaving a gap for its competitors to fill, but the bloodbath of mobile platforms isn't over despite the clearing field. LiPS, LiMo, Moblin, Maemo and MeeGo are ... |
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Moody's: Google Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility Is Credit PositiveWall Street Journal - Natasha Brereton-Fukui - 22 Aug, 2011SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Google Inc.'s (GOOG) agreement to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) is credit positive for the internet search company because it provides it with important mobile-wireless intellectual property, a senior analyst at ... |
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So Google now wants to be like Apple (Wait, what?)CNET - Chris Matyszczyk - 22 Aug, 2011Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility was all about the patents. Just as shopping at Prada is all about the necessity to own something that is black. Many have theorized about the strategy behind blowing two years of Google's profits on a hardware ... |
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Motorola's Identity CrisisNew York Times - James Best Jr - 22 Aug, 2011Can a storied telecommunications company, desired mainly for its patents, return to its innovation glory days? By MATT RICHTEL and JENNA WORTHAM Hundreds of framed patents hang on two separate walls at the headquarters of Motorola Mobility in ... |
Google, Motorola and the Patent WarsWall Street Journal - 22 Aug, 2011By L. GORDON CROVITZ The costs of our broken patent system are often abstract, but this month Google put a price tag on the problem: $12.5 billion. That's what Google paid for Motorola's US smartphone business and its 17000 patents. ... |
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Cellphone Patent Disputes Piling UpWall Street Journal - Don Clark - 22 Aug, 2011More legal and financial maneuvers over mobile-device patents are looming this week, potentially complicating the plans of Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other players in the fast-moving market. In one important case, ... |
Google gulps down mobile giantManila Bulletin - Allan D. Francisco - Aug 21, 2011MANILA, Philippines -- Google's founders said they would never ever be evil. They did not say they would never be huge. A few days ago, they showed just how big they have become. And they did it in a huge way. ... |
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Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me...The Guardian - Aug 20, 2011Google founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin ensured that only a minority of shareholders were given voting rights. Photograph: Stuart Ramson/Associated Press Once upon a time, dinosaurs roamed the Earth â€" huge, dim-witted monsters that spent much ... |
Will Google's $12.5bn Motorola buy spark an 'Android civil war'?The Independent - Stephen Foley - Aug 20, 2011The Silicon Valley upstart that parlayed a wonderful new way of searching the web into one of the most lucrative internet businesses ever, versus the technology establishment giant whose dominance of computer operating ... |
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Google Goes Hardware ShoppingNew York Times - Steve Lohr - Aug 20, 2011It has been the motto of the Internet age, coined by Nicholas Negroponte and popularized in his 1995 best seller, “Being Digital.” Mr. Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, was saying that innovation and fortunes would increasingly be ... |
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Technology deals hotting up as big-hitters spend cashTelegraph.co.uk - Katherine Rushton - Aug 20, 2011The markets may have been plummeting on both sides of the Atlantic, but this was the week that technology stocks went up - literally and metaphorically. The price tag on Motorola valued the company at a 63pc premium to its share price, prompting many ... |
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Google, Motorola tie-up creates dilemma for dominant Android operating systemChicago Tribune - Wailin Wong - Aug 20, 2011Most consumers upgrade their mobile phones every two years. That's about the same amount of time it took for Android to become the best-selling smartphone platform in the world last year. The reason Android was able to ... |
Samsung Could Squeeze Google In Response To Motorola DealForbes - Aug 20, 2011According to a South Korean media report, Samsung's chairman has asked the firm's top management to strengthen its software capabilities as Samsung finds itself embroiled in an intensifying patent battle with Apple and after Google announced its ... |
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Five years that changed everythingFinancial Post - Scott Eells - Aug 20, 2011Mike Zafirovski, the ineffectual and subsequently final chief executive of Nortel Networks Corp., is an unlikely centrepiece in the current unprecedented brinkmanship Apple Inc., Google Inc. and the world's other mobile technology giants are engaged in ... |
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No truce in patent warsFinancial Post - Jameson Berkow - Aug 20, 2011Detente in the raging technology patent wars is coming â€" just as soon as the world's top mobile firms finish building up arsenals of intellectual property expansive enough to ensure one attacking another would mean fiscal suicide. ... |
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Google-Motorola deal: The future is in the pocketHindustan Times - Puneet Mehrotra - Aug 20, 2011There was a time when big was considered better. The more powerful the computing power, the more powerful processing, etc the better the computer was considered. In the last couple of years all that has changed. Salesforce because way back in 2000 they ... |
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NUTS: Google Buys Motorola, HP Dumps WebOSForbes - Aug 20, 2011Visit us today at http://www.mobiledia.com We write with a fundamental belief that it doesn't have to have happened yesterday to be news, and that people are more interested in how the facts of today will impact their lives for tomorrow. ... |
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A New Day for SamsungBarron's - Assif Shameen - Aug 20, 2011Google-Motorola deal will force the Korean tech giant to become more aggressive and adapt a multipronged operating-system strategy. Although it is being sold as a defensive deal focused on patents, ... |
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Regarding Google's deal, search for the words 'non-cash charge'Kansas City Star - Mark Davis - Aug 19, 2011Did Google Inc. pay too much for cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc? We will know whether (or when) two specific words crop up in a future Google earnings report. The phrase to watch for is “non-cash charge,” and it would be ... |
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H-P, Google moves fuel patent speculationMarketWatch - Dawn Lim - Aug 19, 2011NEW YORK (MarketWatch) â€" It's been a big week for those in the patent business, and signs are indicating that more action may be coming in the months ahead. Palm was an early pioneer in smartphones with the Treo, ... |
Wall Street Beat: Megamergers, Earnings Roil TechPCWorld - Marc Ferranti - Aug 19, 2011Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, acquisitions and earnings news from the world's top PC makers (Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo), the biggest Internet business (Google), and a major handset maker (Motorola ... |
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