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Judge: Apple, Google using courts as "business strategy" to "mop up mess"
- Displeased with a lengthy, ongoing patent dispute between Apple and Motorola Mobility (i.e. Google), a Florida-based federal judge has accused both companies of misusing the court system as just another business strategy. Bloomberg published the original scoop yesterday. …
Google cuts another 1,200 jobs at Motorola Mobility
- Google is cutting 1,200 jobs from its Motorola Mobility operating unit, or about 10% of its workforce, according to an email obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The move follows another round of layoffs less than a year ago where…
Judge cancels Apple, Motorola patent trial in tentative order
- Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has canceled a trial between Apple and Motorola Mobility that was scheduled to begin on June 11. Posner, who usually handles appeals instead of cases that go to trial, said in a tentative order that…
Google delves into hardware, buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
- Google has announced its acquisition of Motorola's mobile arm for 12.5 billion dollars, a sum which marks the largest Google acquisition thus far. News of the deal's closure came from a Google blog post Tuesday morning, a post which follows a…
Motorola wins injunction: Xbox 360 and Windows 7 sales banned in Germany
- Microsoft was dealt a huge blow by Motorola Mobility after the latter was granted an injunction by the Mannheim Courts in Germany, preventing the Redmond-based software giant from selling online or in German stores its Xbox 360 games console and Windows…
European Commission probes Motorola Mobility over patent abuse
- Responding to complaints by Apple and Microsoft, the European Commission, Europe's competition regulator has launched two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility to assess whether the firm abused its standard-essential patents with unfair licensing conditions and litigation against rivals.
German ruling spells trouble for Motorola's 3G patent lawsuits
- Motorola Mobility has been dealt a blow in Germany after a court ruled in favor of Apple in the ongoing standard-essential patent battle between the two firms, in which Motorola is suing Apple after refusing the Cupertino-based company’s FRAND licensing…
EU, US approve Google's $12.5 billion buyout of Motorola Mobility
- The EU and US approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility today. European regulators were first to greenlight the transition, saying it doesn't present issues. The US Department of Justice mirrored that decision hours later. With those blessings, Google…
Apple wins 3G patent case against Motorola in Germany
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Motorola Mobility Holdings lost its third patent case against Apple in Mannheim, Germany on Friday after failing to show that the Cupertino based iPhone maker was violating their 3G/UMTS patent for mathematical sequences in mobile...
Motorola Mobility to layoff 800 employees
- Motorola Mobility is planning to cut hundreds of jobs and rein costs as it prepares to complete its acquisition by Google. The mobile phone maker said in a regulatory filing that the reductions would cost it $31 million and the…
Google agrees to buy Motorola's mobile unit for $12.5 billion
- Earlier this year Motorola finalized the process of splitting into two separate companies: Motorola Mobility Holdings and Motorola Solutions. The first handles the company's mobile and consumer business while the latter develops communications products for enterprise and government.
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