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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) surprised the technology world with its $12.5 billion all-cash deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE:MMI) to defend its Android ecosystem.

Google Inc.'s Android is dominating smartphone sales in Australia, overtaking Apple Inc.'s iOS for the first time, according to a new research.

China Mobile logged its fastest half-yearly profit growth in nearly three years and said it hopes to soon launch Apple's popular iPhones to accelerate uptake of high-end 3G services.

Google Inc. shocked the technology world with its $12.5 billion all-cash deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, valuing each essential patent at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem.

Google has agreed to buy struggling Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, making a positive situation for Microsoft as it vies to get back into the mobile phone business.

Google lost the battle with Apple, Microsoft and other in the bid for Nortel Network's 6,000 patents in the extravagant $4.5 billion transaction. The search giant regained some traction with it $12.5 billion dollar acquisition of Motorola in its push for dominance in the mobile market. The buy includes 17,000 patents that Google can utilize in combating legal affairs with rivals such as Apple.

Phone makers depending on Google Inc's Android software should worry about the Web search leader's deal to buy Motorola Mobility, the head of rival Nokia said on Wednesday.

An unannounced Android device from the Motorola camp under the moniker Droid HD just showed up alongside the Droid Bionic in leaked pictures posted by a tipster.

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential patent at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. RBC Capital Markets said the deal value of $12.5 billion equates to 0.7 times trailing twelve months (TTM) of equity value-to-sales.

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Internet search engine giant Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility has shocked market watchers because the handset maker is struggling to keep pace with bigger Android rivals like Samsung and HTC but the deal could actually turn out to be Google's best move ever.

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash to defend its Android ecosystem. Rising IP threats to Android from Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. were the primary driver of the acquisition, RBC Capital Markets said.

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has asked the firm's top management to seek measures including acquisitions to enhance its software prowess, local media reports said on Wednesday.

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.

A German court reached an initial decision in the case between Apple and Samsung over their similar tablet products.

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

Samsung can sell its latest iPad rival in most of Europe again after a German court lifted most of an injunction it had imposed at Apple's request.

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