08/16/2011
Giga Om
Google’s planned buy of Motorola Mobility is about patents and the war of mutual destruction in the mobile space. We get that, but it’s also about connected TV and carriers and how the convergence of broadband and data will change our lives. And so I found myself thinking about how, if Google wants to [...]
08/15/2011
AppleInsider
Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not affect Motorola’s patent-related lawsuits against Apple, as the search company revealed on Monday it has no plans to rescind those legal complaints.
Motorola will continue to operate as a separate entity under Google, building handsets running Android as it has done before. And the company will also continue [...]
08/14/2011
CNET.com – New York Bureau
Google said today that it had agreed to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, adding valuable intellectual property and getting the Internet search giant directly into the handset business.
Google said it would pay $40 a share in cash for Motorola, a 63 percent premium to the company’s closing price on [...]
08/15/2011
All Things Digital
With the entry of Google into the handset-making market, the search giant has just declared a number of things, most especially that its own future is all about mobile.
With the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola, the struggling but iconic maker of mobile phones and tablets, Google has put a huge stake in [...]
07/29/2011
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. (GOOG), facing a growing threat of intellectual-property lawsuits, acquired a batch of patents this month from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to bolster its portfolio.
“Like many tech companies, at times we’ll acquire patents that are relevant to our business,” the Mountain View, California-based company said yesterday in [...]
05/24/2011
Sunday Times, The
May 24 (Bloomberg) –France Telecom SA (FTE) Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard said search company Google Inc. (GOOG) may be willing to cooperate on a solution to solve the quarrel between operators and Web companies over infrastructure investments.
Richard talked with Google CEO Larry Page about the matter last week in Mountain View, [...]
05/10/2011
Wall Street Journal – Los Angeles Bureau
Google Inc. is preparing as early as Tuesday to unveil a new online music service similar to a service recently launched by Amazon.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a move that escalates the battle to create the next generation of Internet businesses for storing and listening [...]
05/10/2011
CNET News.com
SAN FRANCISCO – Search and advertising still pay the bills at Google, but as the company moves into new markets such as mobile and Web apps, increasingly its fortunes will be tied to developers outside the Googleplex.
At this week’s Google I/O developer conference here the company will be reaching out to thousands of [...]
04/18/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – Seoul Bureau
SEOUL—Two South Korean search portals filed a complaint Friday with the country’s Fair Trade Commission against Google Inc. for allegedly limiting their access to smartphones using the Android operating system.
NHN Corp.—the owner of Naver, South Korea’s biggest Internet search engine by revenue—and Daum Communications Corp. called for the antitrust [...]
04/05/2011
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice presiedent of product management at Google Inc. Google Inc. (GOOG) Senior Vice President Jonathan Rosenberg plans to step down, a move that may give freer rein to new Chief Executive Officer Larry Page as he tries to shake up the company.
Rosenberg announced his resignation today, [...]
