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...Microsoft, which has had more legal targets painted on its back than anyone, is the highest-valued corporation in the world....
...Key implications: Sony’s huge hit — PlayStation 4 — easily beat Microsoft’s Xbox in the race to sell more than 100m units....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple observed developments at Xerox Parc with great interest. Xerox still makes photocopiers....
...Google paid $12.5bn for Motorola Mobility before selling two years ago — though it kept most of Motorola’s valuable patent portfolio, ostensibly the main reason for the acquisition....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...(Reuters) Tech tools you can use – Moto X Force The X Force is a new version of my trusty Moto X, writes Jonathan Margolis, with an apparently unbreakable screen, using what Motorola calls ShatterShield...
...Chinese companies have lately targeted a number of technology companies in the US including Unisplendour buying part of Western Digital last September, Lenovo acquiring Motorola Mobility from Google, and...
...Microsoft brought the case in 2010 against Motorola Mobility, the handset maker later acquired by Google....
...The upgrade accompanied recent research that showed Apple’s market share of the wearable device market increasing to roughly one-third, taking business away from Jawbone, Motorola, Microsoft and Nike, which...
...Chinese technology group Lenovo completed the $2.91bn purchase of smartphone maker Motorola Mobility from Google on Thursday, creating the world’s third-biggest manufacturer of smartphones....
...Mobility....
...It was displaced by Lenovo, which announced just hours later it had closed a deal to buy Motorola Mobility from Google, lifting its total sales past Xiaomi....
...Google is also engaged in separate litigation with Apple directly, through its Motorola Mobility unit, for which it paid $12.5bn in 2012 in a deal driven in part by the veteran mobile maker’s large patent...
...Its entry into the mobile business two decades ago was quickly met by a lawsuit from Motorola, the US company that invented mobile telephony....
...(Financial Times) Google has purchased a 5.94 per stake in Lenovo, just after it sold Motorola Mobility to the China PC maker....
...A separate complaint against Motorola from Microsoft over abusive enforcement of patent rights remains under investigation....
...Perhaps Microsoft and Sony will succeed where Nintendo’s Wii U failed last year and entice gamers back to their sofas. But the two are giant corporations with bigger concerns than games....
...The company has added Nest’s elegant yet expensive thermostats and smoke alarms to its collection of hardware businesses, which range from Motorola Mobility to its futuristic Glass headset and robots that...
...Last May the commission also served a “statement of objections” against Google’s Motorola Mobility unit for seeking abusive injunctions in Germany to stop Apple using a wireless patent that is an industry...
...Microsoft, reporting earnings at the same time as Google, also missed analysts’ forecasts....
...Then, as he pushed for the company to sell its valuable portfolio of patents, Google turned up to buy one of the two new companies, Motorola Mobility, for $12.5bn....
...“Consumer product companies such as Sony, Nokia, and Motorola Mobility have proven the risks related to ever-changing consumer tastes, low switching costs, and a highly competitive environment,” said James...
...“We believe the [earnings] miss was in large part driven by Motorola Mobility,” said Anthony DiClemente, internet analyst at Barclays....
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