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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. The acquisition may also benefit Google TV, Jefferies said in a note.

Following Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, with one of the largest patent libraries in the industry, speculation is rife that Apple will respond in kind.

After losing out in the titanic $4.5 billion bid for Nortel Networks against Apple and the gang of five, Google has resurged with its latest acquisition of Motorola. The search giant lost out in obtaining 6,000 patents from the Nortel deal, but the $12.5 billion Motorola purchase will make up for the loss with over 17,000 patents packaged in the deal.

Google's monster purchase of Motorola Mobility has made it clear: The digital future is all about portability.

Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, widely considered a mobile phone also-run, took the technology world by surprise on Monday.

by Michelle SierraNEW YORK, Aug 16 - Google Inc's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc suggests that cash-rich companies may not need to access the syndicated loan markets to pay for multi-billion purchases, sources told Thomson Reuters LPC Tuesday.

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While some lauded Google's move to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion on Monday, others, such as Standard & Poor's, view it as a mistake

by Michelle SierraNEW YORK, Aug 16 - Google Inc's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc suggests that cash-rich companies may not need to access the syndicated loan markets to pay for multi-billion purchases, sources told Thomson Reuters LPC Tuesday.

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility dominated the headlines on Monday, but is it possible another company could come in and swipe Motorola away?

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Google's move to buy Motorola Mobility was all about patents and defending the growing success of Android analysts say.

Google Inc's biggest deal ever, acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion, is an attempt to buy insurance against increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals such as Apple Inc.

Google buying Motorola might be big technology news, but it?s not nearly as fun as a pair of sunglasses that can open a beer bottle.

Former employees of elite Wall Street firms are triumphing over their previous investment banks in Google Inc's blockbuster $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

The timing of the acquisition suggests that Google's move was more an act of desperation rather than a planned strategic move

Currently, investors are speculating that the Google-Motorola deal will spur other handset deals and Nokia and RIM could be potential acquisition targets.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) for $40 per share in cash or about $12.5 billion. Jefferies believes Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to strike back in patent war.

Market analysts are speculating that Nvidia could be a big beneficiary of the Google-Motorola deal

In a significant development for the mobile technology industry, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion, or $40 a share, in cash to defend its Android ecosystem.

Google Inc.'s biggest deal ever, acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion, is an attempt to buy insurance against increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals such as Apple Inc.

The acquisition of one of the mobile telecommunications industry's most storied names is Google co-founder Larry Page's boldest move since taking over as CEO in April, launching the Internet giant into a lower-margin manufacturing business and pitting it against many of the 38 other handset companies that now use its Android software.

Making its biggest deal ever, Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings for a massive $12.5 billion, which analysts see as an attempt to fend off increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals like Apple.

Google Inc's biggest deal ever, acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion, is an attempt to buy insurance against increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals such as Apple Inc.

Research in Motion and Microsoft Corp are emerging as potential winners after Google Inc said it would buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.

Google Inc, already the subject of antitrust inquiries, likely opened itself up to more regulatory scrutiny with its proposed $12.5 billion cash acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

Google's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility brought a 9 percent gain for the beaten-down stock of tech rival Research In Motion on Monday as investors calculated what a similarly bulging premium would do for the BlackBerry maker's asking price.