Google buys Motorola Mobility to 'supercharge' Android OS

Release Date ‎Aug 15, 2011‎ in USA Today

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Tech companies place big bets on patents Boston Globe - Hiawatha Bray - 17 Aug, 2011 Google Inc. and its Android software for smartphones are under legal assault from some of the biggest, richest companies on earth: Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., and Apple Inc., all suing over ownership of the patents that control ...
Korean IT Industry Needs to Make Fundamental Changes The Chosun Ilbo - 17 Aug, 2011 The world's largest Internet company Google has acquired Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone unit of the US company. So far Google has supplied its Android operating system free of charge to smartphone and tablet PC manufacturers, but now it has gone ...
Google-Motorola Deal Spells Trouble for Korean Phone Makers The Chosun Ilbo - 17 Aug, 2011 Experts are calling Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility the biggest event of the decade in the mobile phone industry along with the introduction of the smartphone. Already Finland's Nokia, once the reigning champion of the global mobile phone ...
Will a merger with Motorola help Google compete with Apple for smartphone and ... Wall Street Journal - 17 Aug, 2011 Google Inc. agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for about $12.5 billion in cash, a deal that spells the end of independence for a venerable American company and reshapes the booming market for smartphones as computing shifts from the ...
S&P downgrades Google stock on Motorola deal plans ZDNet Asia - Elinor Mills - 17 Aug, 2011 Equity researcher says deal won't protect Google from litigation and could hurt growth and financials. S&P lowers shares' price target by US$200 and changes rating from "buy" to "sell". ...
	Motorola acquisition a huge gamble for Google AFP - Chris Lefkow - 17 Aug, 2011 WASHINGTON �" Less than six months after taking over as chief executive, Google co-founder Larry Page has placed the Internet giant's most audacious wager yet. The $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility dwarfs Google's previous purchases and ...
A Bull Market in Tech Patents New York Times - Steve Lohr - 17 Aug, 2011 Google was willing on Monday to pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in no small part because of its stockpile of 17000 patents. The patent portfolio, some analysts estimate, could represent more than half of the value of the deal, ...
	Quest for Patents Brings New Focus in Tech Deals New York Times - Evelyn M. Rusli - 17 Aug, 2011 Wall Street bankers and technology executives have been busy with their calculators in the wake of Google's $12.5 billion offer for Motorola Mobililty. It isn't just the rich 63 percent premium for the cellphone company that has them ...
	Five possible responses to the Google-Motorola merger CNET - Marguerite Reardon - 17 Aug, 2011 So what's it mean for the rest of the industry? Typically, industry consolidation begets more consolidation. CNET offers five predictions for how this mega-merger may affect other players in the mobile market from highlighting the potential alliances ...
Four titans of tech are racing to be king of digital age Washington Post - Jia Lynn Yang - 17 Aug, 2011 Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, has called them the “gang of four.” They are the four titans of tech: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. And they are impossible to escape, tapping nearly every consumer's wallet and ...
	Google deal could boost Motorola China Daily - Shen Jingting, Chen Limin - 17 Aug, 2011 BEIJING - Google Inc's purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for about $12.5 billion could give a boost to Motorola's handset business in China, while possibly pushing phone makers to adopt other ...
'Googorola' comes at dot-com bubble price Sydney Morning Herald - 17 Aug, 2011 Google needs to secure mobile-phone patents so badly it's willing to pay the highest premium for a wireless-equipment company since the dot-com bubble. Google, maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings for ...
	Google deal with Motorola may shake up smartphone market Los Angeles Times - 17 Aug, 2011 Other handset makers may be forced to realign their allegiances, cutting deals to put new operating systems on their phones or buying firms themselves to gain valuable technology patents. While Google wants to build its own devices to compete with the ...
The Many Wars of Google Wall Street Journal - Holman W. Jenkins, Jr - 17 Aug, 2011 The mobile market Metternichs are out in force, wargaming Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola's handset business. The imponderables are many. Will partners like Samsung and HTC, which have been enriched by Google's ...
Google-Motorola deal draws questions San Jose Mercury News - Mike Swift - 17 Aug, 2011 The day after Google (GOOG) announced a $12.5 billion cash deal to buy Motorola Mobility, Silicon Valley and Wall Street on Tuesday questioned the value of the move -- as the initial glow surrounding the bold combination dimmed amid ...
	What Googles Motorola acquisition means for Microsoft Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 17 Aug, 2011 So far, Windows Phone 7 has not been catching on as a competitive smart-phone platform; handset makers seem to be betting big on Android, the mobile operating system from Google. But if federal antitrust regulators let Google buy up Motorola, ...
Google's Motorola Deal Promises to Shake Up Mobile Technology Industry PBS News Hour - 17 Aug, 2011 Google announced plans this week to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. In recent years the Internet giant has made big plays in the smartphone market through its Android platform. Jeffrey Brown discusses the ramifications of the pending deal with ...
HP-Palm Deal Looks Better With Time New York Times - Robert Cyran, Agnes T. Crane - 17 Aug, 2011 Hewlett-Packard's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm last year suddenly looks smarter. Google's $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility this week, and the earlier frenzied bidding for Nortel's patents, have revealed ...
	Musing on the Prospects of a Microsoft Counterbid for Motorola New York Times (blog) - Michael J. De La Merced - 17 Aug, 2011 Google's $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility is widely considered aggressive, with a hefty 63.5 percent premium that few would dare try to top. But analysts at Macquarie seem to think that one of Google's biggest rivals ...
S&P downgrades Google ZDNet (blog) - Matt Weinberger - 17 Aug, 2011 Summary: Standard & Poor has downgraded Google's stock rating from “buy” to “sell” over a lack of confidence in the Motorola Mobility acquisition. You won't find 24/7 news coverage about this downgrade. ...
It's Clear Why Software Patents Need to Disappear PCWorld - Katherine Noyes - 17 Aug, 2011 If there's any lesson to be learned from Google's news-making activities these past few days, it's that software patents are a problem. The most recent illustration, of course, is Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola ...
When Google Met Moto Wall Street Journal - 17 Aug, 2011 By SHAYNDI RAICE Sanjay Jha, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.'s chief executive, recalls creating a stir with colleagues the first time he wore a pair of flip flops to the company's headquarters in Libertyville, Ill. "They said Sanjay, your toes are ...
Motorola unit buy to secure Android future Economic Times - 17 Aug, 2011 NEW DELHI: Google's surprise acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion has created a stir in the telecom market as it pits the search engine giant in direct competition with Apple and heralds its entry into the handset segment. ...
Motorola Mobility sued by shareholder, says Google underpaid ZDNet (blog) - Matt Weinberger - 17 Aug, 2011 Summary: A Motorola Mobility shareholder has sued both the company and Google, saying that the deal was vastly undervalued - even though it represented a 63% markup. When I predicted that Google's ...
Google deal doesn't sit well with S&P Toronto Star - Michael Lewis - 17 Aug, 2011 Shockwaves from Google Inc.'s surprise $12.5 billion (US) bid for money losing Motorola Mobility continued to be felt Tuesday as the Internet giant's stock was slapped with a rare sell recommendation. The aftershocks extended to Waterloo-based RIM, ...
Patent problems threaten to stifle tech start-ups The Independent - Nick Clark - 17 Aug, 2011 Venture capitalists are warning that the increasing number of patent battles is damaging technology start-ups, with legal cases dragging on innovation and threatening to drive smaller companies out of businesses. ...
	What will Samsung, LG do? Korea Times - Yoon Ja-young - 17 Aug, 2011 Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility may protect local manufacturers from patent wars in the short term, but it is more than perplexing news for them in the end. Analysts point out that handset manufacturers may be overlooking the ...
Google pressed to enforce rights in patent war Financial Times - Richard Waters - 17 Aug, 2011 Amid the patent wars raging in the booming smartphone industry, it has become fashionable to brag about the sheer weight of numbers. The more certified inventions a company can call to its defence, according to this ...
RIM, like Motorola, needs a giant partner Globe and Mail - 17 Aug, 2011 Google's GOOG-Q bid for Motorola Mobility Holdings MMI-N proves a lot of things �" the value of patents, the advantages of making both hardware and software, the powers of activist investors. It also proves something else, something more fundamental and ...
Patent Wars and Blackmail in Silicon Valley Huffington Post (blog) - 17 Aug, 2011 With reality television all the rage, viewers may wonder why there's been no reality series about the inbred high-tech ecosystem of Silicon Valley. There should be, because the reality of how our technology bastion really competes today -- namely by ...