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Wall Street stocks rose for a third day on Monday as investors saw Google's offer for phone maker Motorola Mobility as an excuse to jump back into the market after weeks of sharp selling.

The stock market made it three up days in a row Monday, thanks to slew of acquisitions that has observers wondering if Wall Street is getting back its Mojo.

Wall Street stocks rose for a third day on Monday as investors saw Google's offer for phone maker Motorola Mobility as a signal to jump back into the market after weeks of sharp selling.

Shares of InterDigital Inc plunged 23 percent on Monday after Google's $12.5 billion Mobility Holdings buy sparked worries that the search giant may no longer be interested in the company's wireless patents.

Mobile Technology is taking a turn with Google buying Motorola Mobility. Here's give things to know about the acquisition.

Shares of InterDigital Inc plunged 23 percent on Monday after Google's $12.5 billion Mobility Holdings buy sparked worries that the search giant may no longer be interested in the company's wireless patents.

Under the deal, Motorola Mobility will remain licensee of Android, which will stay open and available for use by other hardware manufacturers at no cost.

Carl Icahn benefits from Motorola Mobility's sale. He has other tech investments.

Internet search giant Google Inc said it will buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for about $12.5 billion in cash.

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility sent shock waves through the industry, while reviving a few slumping technology companies.

After being pushed into a corner by the Rockstar consortium which acquired a portfolio of 6,000 patents from Nortel Networks, Google has upped the ante in the smartphone arena by acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12 billion.

Android operating system has been targeted time and again by experts, claiming it to be not secure enough. The latest announcement comes from the security expert, Riley Hassel.

While Google sits enthroned as the search engine giant in its market share, Yahoo and Bing are more effective in search results, yielding the highest success rates, according to a search-engine study.

Google said the purchase of Motorola Mobility will bolster the popularity of its Android mobile operating system.

Research in Motion launched a new, free online management system intended for small businesses on Monday.

Yahoo and Bing are better at performing searches than Internet search engine giant Google, according to analytic firm Experian Hitwise.

Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion to bolster search and add platforms in the competitive smartphone world. Could retail stores be next?

Huawei Technologies Co. is all set to sell in the UK its own mobile handsets, which will run on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system.

Google Inc said it will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion in cash to bolster the adoption of its Android mobile software.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) said it agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) for $40 per share in cash or a total of about $12.5 billion. This might create more heat for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), as Google is trying to improve its Android ecosystem with this acquisition.

Adobe has launched its newest web tool, Muse, which is intended to allow complex HTML sites that come with CSS and HTML 5 support to be developed easily and establish an online presence.

The first official screenshots of Ice Cream Sandwich has been revealed after a long period of silence.

With the increasing craze for Near Field Communication (NFC)- the latest contactless payment type, Gartner research firm expects the mobile payment users to surpass 141.1 million in 2011, up from 102.1 million in 2010.

Google+ may bring in Angry Birds to see off any threat from Facebook games.

With Google+ fiercely attempting to level the competition, Facebook is not one to stay idle but will likely be rolling out similar, if not better, gaming features of its own in order to satisfy, sustain and grow the current 750 million user base.

After Google announced on Thursday that it will offer 16 games from third party developers on Google+ such as Zynga Poker and the popular Angry Birds game, Facebook retaliated by stating the same day that it would improve gaming experience on its Web site and introduced a new policy loosening restrictions on how developers can market their games on the social network.

Google?s new social networking site Google + has rolled out a handful of games triggering rumors that it could pose a challenge to the gaming system of Facebook.

The war is on between Facebook and Google+ to win the hearts of users and last as the reigning king of social networking. Google+ is stepping up the game as it announced plans on Thursday to bring gaming features into the site, including popular games such as Angry Birds, which could be a major advantage in the fight to topple Facebook.

Google still garnered the larger share of the search market with 66% in July, but Yahoo and Bing were more effective when it comes to getting users to actually click on another web site, a report says.