Google isn’t shy when it comes to acquiring other companies to bolster their already robust selection of services. Today’s acquisition of Zagat is a perfect example.
Zagat is a restaurant rating service that thrives in the “local” arena. Using a scale of 1-30, Tim and Nina Zagat, friends, family and other die-hard foodies have critiqued ... Read More »
The AT&T/T-Mobile merger may mean impending doom, but there’s no doubt many are still trying to stop it. Sprint has been against this acquisition from the very beginning. Though the company has clearly stated such, things are getting much more serious today.
As promised, Sprint will do everything in its power to stop AT&T ... Read More »
When Google first acquired Motorola for $12.5 billion, there was a lot of back and forth on why the Big G made the purchase. The general consensus was that it’s all about the patents; the hardware was just an added bonus Google might not even want. In fact speculation was that Google is so much ... Read More »
Bloomberg is reporting that the United States Justice Department has filed court papers in Washington in an attempt to block the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. Details are obviously few and far between on this story, but one thing is painfully clear: AT&T has their work cut out for them if they’re going ... Read More »
It seems South Korean-based Samsung and LG are being urged to dump Android. The Motley Fool reports that the two companies have been asked by the government of South Korea to ditch Android in favor of joining with a “coalition of other South Korean companies” building their own mobile operating system.
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Just how much is a mobile patent worth? If it keeps your company from losing millions of dollars every quarter alone, quite a bit. Still, there is no real number value yet, since most patent portfolios have been bought at auction. And as the threat of legal battles grows every bigger, prices have gone up. ... Read More »
When Google (a mostly software-based company) acquired Motorola (a mostly hardware-based company), the former was quick to put up a page dedicated to hosting quotes from other Android manufacturers who approve of the deal. For the most part, the quotes were eerily similar. They were so robotic, an Android press release ... Read More »
Before everyone gets up in arms over the title of this post, you may need a quick back story on Next Media Animation TV. NMATV is a comedy animation studio that takes current events, like the Googarola announcement, and makes hilarious videos while remaining relatively informative. No one is spared when it comes to the ... Read More »
The tech world was rocked today by Google’s announcement of its intention to acquire Motorola Mobility. Even mainstream media channels like CNN, MSNBC and CBS News covered the news. As a result we’re seeing a lot of speculation about what will now happen to Motorola and how the company fits into Google’s mobile ... Read More »
Is it April’s Fools Day already? No? Good, just checking. Much to our surprise, Google has just made an announcement that is sure to shake up the whole smartphone world. With the goal of protecting and supercharging the whole Android ecosystem, the Mountain View-based company has just announced on its blog that it ... Read More »
