Search giant Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility prima facie looks to shut out Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) and Nokia, which are struggling in the smartphone race, but instead the deal could make the companies attractive acquisition targets.
Surojit Chatterjee
Aug 17, 2011
Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash to defend its Android ecosystem. Rising IP threats to Android from Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. were the primary driver of the acquisition, RBC Capital Markets said.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Aug 17, 2011
Technology giant Apple has released its first update to its Mac OS X Lion software that fixes, among others, certain bugs over playing videos in safari and improves reliability of Wi-Fi connections.
Manikandan Raman
Aug 17, 2011
The surplus stock of over 200,000 unsold TouchPads are sitting in Best Buy, waiting to have HP bring them home.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 17, 2011
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) made a surprising announcement on Tuesday at the Gamescom conference in Germany that the company will be lowering the worldwide price of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) by another $50.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Aug 17, 2011
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. The acquisition may also benefit Google TV, Jefferies said in a note.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Aug 17, 2011
Jodie Foster, Academy Award winning actor, producer and director, was among 2,557 donors helping SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life) in its lookout for alien radio signal from outer space.
Amrutha Gayathri
Aug 17, 2011
After losing out in the titanic $4.5 billion bid for Nortel Networks against Apple and the gang of five, Google has resurged with its latest acquisition of Motorola. The search giant lost out in obtaining 6,000 patents from the Nortel deal, but the $12.5 billion Motorola purchase will make up for the loss with over 17,000 patents packaged in the deal.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 17, 2011
Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, widely considered a mobile phone also-run, took the technology world by surprise on Monday.
Ann Suh
Aug 16, 2011
Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility dominated the headlines on Monday, but is it possible another company could come in and swipe Motorola away?
John Talty
Aug 16, 2011
Jodie Foster is among thousands who in just 45-days raised $200,000 to re-open the Allen Telescope Array that search space for potential extraterrestrial life.
Ceylan Yeginsu
Aug 16, 2011
Google paid less per patent than Apple's syndicate did in recent smartphone wars
David Zielenziger
Aug 16, 2011
Sony cut the price of the PS3 to make a move against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii says analysts.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 16, 2011
Google's response to Apple in the smartphone patent wars ran counter to practice: rather than settling, it bought an Apple rival
David Zielenziger
Aug 16, 2011
Google's move to buy Motorola Mobility was all about patents and defending the growing success of Android analysts say.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 16, 2011
Former employees of elite Wall Street firms are triumphing over their previous investment banks in Google Inc's blockbuster $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.
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Aug 16, 2011
Sony Ericsson has announced a limited time exclusive agreement with EAMobile.
Prarthito Maity
Aug 16, 2011
The timing of the acquisition suggests that Google's move was more an act of desperation rather than a planned strategic move
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 16, 2011
Currently, investors are speculating that the Google-Motorola deal will spur other handset deals and Nokia and RIM could be potential acquisition targets.
Manikandan Raman
Aug 16, 2011
"Counter Strike: Global Offensive" is due for a release next year on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Prarthito Maity
Aug 16, 2011
In a significant development for the mobile technology industry, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion, or $40 a share, in cash to defend its Android ecosystem.
Manikandan Raman
Aug 16, 2011
Google Inc.'s biggest deal ever, acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion, is an attempt to buy insurance against increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals such as Apple Inc.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 16, 2011
