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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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Exclusive: Guess who else wanted to buy Motorola? — Google may not have had much of a choice when it came to buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. If it didn't, someone else would have and that would have put the company in an even bigger patent hole.
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.
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.
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The Business Insider and Android and Me
MG Siegler / parislemon:
Rope-A-Dope, Indeed — Sometimes you want so badly to say “I told you so!” after months of getting kicked in the ass, that you do so without really looking into what you're writing about. Or even thinking, really. — Such is the predicament Dan Lyons finds himself in today.
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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.
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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GigaOM:
With Motorola, Google TV just got a huge shot in the arm
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Google just bought itself patent protection
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Bloomberg:
Google Deal Said to Have $2.5 Billion Reverse Breakup Fee
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AllThingsD, FOSS Patents and Gizmodo
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Google's Motorola Deal Will Spur Antitrust Regulators to Action
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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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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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Sara Jerome / Tech Daily Dose:
FCC Probing Wireless Blocking by San Francisco Authorities — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating actions last week by the transportation authority in San Francisco which interrupted wireless service in commuter stations in an effort to foil protesters who had planned demonstrations.
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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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Bits, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, PE Hub Blog, TUAW, Insanely Great Mac and MacStories, Thanks:deancorp
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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Jason Costa / Twitter Developers:
A Photo Upload API — Photos are a fundamental way that people share context, information, jokes, and personal moments on Twitter. Following last week's wider release of photos to Twitter.com users, we're ready to share our media upload API, which will allow developers to conveniently attach an image to a Tweet.
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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 …
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Laura Hazard Owen / mocoNews:
New Amazon Student App Also Offers 6 Free Months Of Amazon Prime — It's not as good a deal as Amazon's offer last year that gave anyone with a .edu e-mail address a free year of Amazon Prime, but the new Amazon Student iOS app does come with six months of free two-day shipping.
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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 …
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
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AppleInsider:
Construction begins at site of Apple's Grand Central Terminal store — Construction is now underway at New York's Grand Central Terminal, where Apple is hard at work on a new retail store that may open this year. — Temporary scaffolding can now be seen on the second floor at the world-famous terminal.
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MacRumors, TUAW and iDownloadBlog.com
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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SlashGear
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Airbnb Pumps Up Security With New Hires and Guarantees — Airbnb continues to roll out new security features at a breakneck pace to thwart mounting concerns over whether the site is a safe way to rent out your primary residence to travelers. — The heavily backed San Francisco start …
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
South Korea's “real names” debacle and the virtues of online anonymity — Is Internet anonymity a problem? Germany's Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich thinks so. In comments to the German magazine Spiegel, he argued that the recent attacks in Norway illustrate the need …
