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Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:
Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility — Since its launch in November 2007, Android has not only dramatically increased consumer choice but also improved the entire mobile experience for users. Today, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide …
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Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOOGLE-MOTOROLA DEAL: It Could End Up Being A Disaster — A very interesting move by Google this morning, buying handset hardware maker Motorola for $12.5 billion. — Google deserves credit for a big, bold move. — But let's be real: This deal could end up being a disaster.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google's $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility bet: 6 reasons why it makes sense — Summary: Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility solves the search giant's patent problems, gives it a bigger say in hardware integration and fixes a few other issues. Here's a look at the moving parts.
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Google buying Motorola: Nokia, Samsung, and other industry players react — Google said this morning that it dropped its “top five” Android partners a line yesterday to let them know that this Motorola acquisition was taking place — so naturally, many of them had prepared statements ready to go.
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Suck on it, AppleSoft — Google pulls a rope-a-dope — Everyone was baffled when Google made those crazy bids for the Nortel patents last month. Remember? They bid things like the distance from the earth to the sun, the number pi, and some other wacky numbers from mathematics.
Bloomberg:
Google Deal Said to Have $2.5 Billion Reverse Breakup Fee — Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. includes a reverse breakup fee of $2.5 billion, according to a person close to the situation. — Google would pay Motorola Mobility that sum upon failing …
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Google's Motorola Deal Will Spur Antitrust Regulators to Action
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Google just bought itself patent protection
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Google's Motorola acquisition: Microsoft patent case takes a new turn
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: 4G LTE iPhone currently in carrier testing — Apple's iPhone 5 is set to be unveiled in the next month or so, though no one quite knows what the device will feature thanks to the ongoing flood of rumors. Sure, we have a pretty good idea of what it will look like …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Most Android vendors lost their Linux distribution rights, could face shakedown or shutdown — Last week I read about an Android licensing issue that I wasn't previously aware of. It's a pretty serious one, and it's not that hard to understand. The short version is that
Brian Heater / Engadget:
TabCo reveals itself as Fusion Garage, unveils Grid 10 tablet and Grid 4 smartphone — After months of teasing, TabCo finally revealed itself to the world — as suspected, the brand is, in fact a reboot of Fusion Garage, the company that gave the world the much maligned JooJoo tablet.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Facebook Pal Buddy Media Raises $54 Million — Facebook is worth anywhere from $50 billion to $100 billion. Now Buddy Media, which helps advertisers manage their presence on the social network, is worth $500 million. — That's the valuation sources say the company earned in its most recent $54 million financing round.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Official Steve Jobs biography set for November 21 release, based on forty interviews — According to Barnes and Noble's website, the official Steve Jobs biography - titled Steve Jobs: A Biography - is becoming available on November 21, 2011. This is a big leap from the previously announced March 6 …
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Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Microsoft declares victory over Linux, names Apple and Google main rivals — Summary: Normally, reading a company's annual report is better than Ambien for lulling oneself to sleep. But this year Microsoft's lawyers allowed some actual competitive insight to sneak into the normally dull 10-K reports …
Lee Mathews / ExtremeTech:
Mozilla takes Firefox version numbers to the next level... by removing them — A great collective gasp issued from tuned-in Firefox fans when Mozilla announced that it was switching to a Chrome-like release schedule for its browser. The goal was to make Firefox more adaptable and to keep pace …
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Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld:
Apple's evidence may be flawed in European Samsung case — Pictures of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 submitted into evidence look more like the iPad than the actual Samsung device does — (COMPUTERWORLD NETHERLANDS) — Apple and its lawyers have, perhaps inadvertently, misled the judge …
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Neal Gabler / New York Times:
The Elusive Big Idea — Neal Gabler is a senior fellow at the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California and the author of “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.” — THE July/August issue of The Atlantic trumpets the “14 Biggest Ideas of the Year.”
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Adobe debuts Muse, a no-code-required site builder — Adobe's targeting graphic designers with a new product codenamed Muse that aims to help them build working Web sites just like they'd design a prototype in one of the company's other design apps. — VIDEO — Your e-mail's been hacked: Now what?
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 5 Assistant based on Siri technology, may tap into contacts, calendars, e-mail — Siri's iPhone app promotional video: how iOS Assistant will likely function — While we were able to exclusively report on substantial evidence that Apple is planning a system-wide voice navigation system called …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pew Survey: Half Of U.S. Mobile Consumers Use Cell Phones For Realtime Info Retrieval — Mobile computing is more realtime than desktop computing. That's just obvious. Typically when you are on the go, you want to know what is going on right now around you.
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Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
BlackBerry Bold 9930 now available on Verizon website for $249.99 on contract — With little fanfare, the BlackBerry Bold 9930 has appeared on Verizon's website. Pricing is $249.99 with a 2-year contract and $509.99 off-contract. Some reports have the smartphone at $199.99 depending on customer-specific upgrade pricing.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
McAfee launches anti-theft mobile app for the iPhone — McAfee, one of the leaders in PC antivirus software, is launching a consumer-focused anti-theft app for the iPhone today. The new McAfee WaveSecure allows users to protect their privacy and data in case their iPhones are lost or stolen.
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Noreen O'Leary / Adweek:
IPG Sells Half of Facebook Stake for $133 million Return on $5 million investment — The global marketing communications company Interpublic Group has reached an agreement to sell about half of its stake in Facebook for $133 million in a privately negotiated transaction.
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