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 [...]
05/02/2011
CNET News.com
Future versions of Motorola’s Atrix smartphone-laptop combo will be rolled out as Android “alternatives” to tablets and other newfangled devices, Motorola’s chief executive said this week.
The phone maker’s first crack at the Atrix smartphone-laptop convergence wasn’t perfect. CNET Reviews said the lack of Google’s Chrome operating system hurts (Atrix uses a FireFox-centric “Webtop” [...]
12/22/2010
Bloomberg News – Toronto Bureau
Motorola Mobility Inc., the smartphone maker being spun off from Motorola Inc., bought software company Zecter Inc. to help consumers transfer music more easily between its handsets and other devices.
Zecter’s ZumoCast and ZumoDrive software let users move content from phones to computers and tablet devices, Motorola Mobility said today in [...]
12/15/2010
Thomson Reuters
BRUSSELS Dec 15 (Reuters) – Nokia Siemens Networks [NSN.UL] won EU regulatory approval on Wednesday to purchase Motorola’s (MOT.N) mobile telecom network equipment business for $1.2 billion, in a deal meant to boost its presence in Japan and North America.
The acquisition could help Nokia Siemens Networks — a joint venture of Nokia (NOK1V.HE) [...]
11/16/2010
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Motorola Inc., maker of the Droid smartphone, will continue to focus on developing smartphones using Google Inc.’s Android operating system as the software becomes more popular, a company executive said.
“Currently we’re very focused on Android, and we will continue to be so,” Chung Chul Jong, head of Motorola’s South Korean business, said in [...]
11/01/2010
Associated Press (AP)
Apple is suing Motorola, saying that Motorola has infringed on patents related to its smartphones.
Apple said in a filing that the Droid, Cliq, BackFlip and other phones from Motorola violate its patents related to the iPhone’s touch screen and user interface.
Apple says it wants Motorola to stop using the patents and [...]
10/06/2010
RCR Wireless
Motorola’s Flipout is one of three new Android-powered devices available through AT&T Mobility.
AT&T Mobility furthered its push into the Android space announcing a trio of new devices running Google Inc.’s operating system. The three devices – all from Motorola Inc. – run Android 2.1 and feature Motorola’s MotoBlur user interface and bring the [...]
10/06/2010
CNBC
NEW YORK Oct 6 (Reuters) – Motorola Inc (MOT.N) is planning new home television products for 2011 and might work with Google Inc (GOOG.O) on them, its co-chief executive Sanjay Jha told CNBC on Wednesday.
Jha is set to lead Motorola’s television set-top box and mobile phone business after it splits itself in two [...]
