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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Exclusive: Guess who else wanted to buy Motorola? — Google may not have had much of a choice when it came to buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. If it didn't, someone else would have and that would have put the company in an even bigger patent hole.
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
RIM Left in 'No Man's Land' By Google Deal — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet computer, may have the most to lose from Google Inc. (GOOG)'s deal to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. — Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“Defending Android” — Bravo Google, well played. — There's no denying that Google's maneuver this morning to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion in cash is remarkable. Everyone is talking about every possible angle of the deal, as they should. The summertime is usually the doldrums when it comes to tech news.
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Google-Motorola: Winners and losers — Google's move to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion will shift some of the power and balance in the mobile industry. Here are some of the initial winners and losers: — Winners — Motorola and Sanjay Jha: Let's be honest — the comeback wasn't going great.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Is Google Turning Into a Mobile Phone Company? No, It Says — Back in 2004, Eric E. Schmidt, then Google's chief executive, proclaimed, “We're not going into the phone business, but we're going to make sure Google is on those phones.” — Less than a year later, however, Google did the opposite.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
U.S. Carriers Silent on Motoroogle, but France Telecom Gives It a Thumbs Up
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PE Hub Blog, Softpedia News and The Business Insider
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
$2.5 billion Google-Motorola break-up fee reflects sellers' concern and buyer's desperation
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Now Is The Perfect Time For HP To Step Up And License WebOS
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
10 questions about Google's Motorola deal
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Balls — I'm fascinated by Dan Lyons's take on Google acquisition of Motorola today, “Suck on It, AppleSoft — Google Pulls a Rope-a-Dope”: … Lyons has always been an ass, but when did he get so bitter? Siegler is one of the top writers on the Apple beat, period.
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
Rope-A-Dope, Indeed
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Josh Lowensohn / Crave: The gadget blog:
Starbucks serves up free iPhone apps — Starbucks is now serving up paid applications for free as part of its “Pick of the Week” program. — The next time you go into a Starbucks for a drink or snack, you could end up walking out with a free iPhone app too.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases $69 OS X Lion thumb drive, ships in 1-3 business days — As expected, Apple has released OS X Lion on a USB thumb drive via their online store. The $69 thumb drive ships in 1-3 business days and requires 7GB of available storage space. One caveat for users that install OS X Lion via …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Redesigns Android, iPhone Apps With Groups And More; Debuts HTML5 Mobile Site — LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner explained on the company's first earnings call a few weeks ago that the company is planning to make a big investment in its mobile strategy. Today, the professional social network …
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
CyanogenMod founder joins Samsung Mobile, plans to make Android more awesome — “I'm so tired of waiting for my smartphone to get the latest update of Android. The CyanogenMod team releases updates days after the source code is available. Why doesn't [insert handset maker] just hire Cyanogen?”
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction suspended for all EU countries except Germany — Dutch website Webwereld, which also raised issues yesterday concerning pictures of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 presented by Apple to the Düsseldorf court, was first to break the news that the Landgericht (district court) …
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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Did Apple alter photos of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in its injunction filing?
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
BART Shuts Down Cell Service To Thwart Rumored Protests, Gets Actual Protests (And Has To Close Stations) — Since shutting down cell service on Thursday to try to quell rumored protests which never came to fruition, the Bay Area Transit Authority (BART) has had an interesting weekend and Monday.
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Sara Jerome / Tech Daily Dose:
FCC Probing Wireless Blocking by San Francisco Authorities
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel rejects 50% Ultrabook CPU price cut demand from notebook players — Intel, facing notebook players' demand of supplying Ultrabook CPUs at a price 50% lower than original to help increase their profitability, rejected the proposal and is only willing to provide 20% discounts …
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Reuters:
Taiwan's HTC sues Apple over patents — (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC Corp sued Apple Inc, claiming infringement of three patents through Apple's sale of Macintosh computers, iPads, iPods, iPhones and other devices. — The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware seeks …
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Emily Steel / MorningStar:
WSJ(8/15) AOL Growth Comes At A Cost — AOL Inc. has no shortage of websites, with more than 800. They range from hundreds of little hometown-news sites in the Patch network to its 37 bigger-name properties, including the Huffington Post, TechCrunch, MapQuest and Moviefone.
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NYConvergence.com and SEO Book.com
Guardian:
MI5 joins social messaging trawl for riot organisers — Intelligence agency asked to crack encrypted messages - especially on BlackBerry Messenger - to help police — The security service MI5 and the electronic interception centre GCHQ have been asked by the government to join the hunt …
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Newlaunches.com and CNET News
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Microsoft Is FINALLY Ready To Talk About Windows 8 — Microsoft's Windows chief, Steve Sinofsky, is known for his “cone of silence” around upcoming products — even the Windows team used to have trouble getting information about Office when he led that group. — But it looks like he's finally ready to spill on Windows 8.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
President Obama Joins Foursquare — Foursquare has just gained its highest-profile user yet: President Barack Obama. — “The White House is now on Foursquare, a location-based social networking website, which is the latest way for you to engage with the administration,” The White House said on its blog.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple reportedly kills plans for new iPad this fall due to Retina Display issues — Backing up a TiPB report from last week, Digitimes reports that Apple's plans for a Retina Display iPad launch this fall have been terminated; if they even existed in the first place.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft adding more voice to Xbox, Windows Phone, and pretty much everything else — Speech technology from Microsoft's Tellme group is quickly becoming a bigger part of the company's products, starting with the upcoming revamps of Xbox Live and Windows Phone.
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