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Google CEO: Motorola to be better served at Lenovo, which is “all-in” on making mobile devices — Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility — We've just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. As this is an important move for Android users everywhere, I wanted to explain why in detail.
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Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion — Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility from Google — Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Mountain View, California - January 29, 2014: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) …
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Thanks:@orbuch| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google to keep Motorola's Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone — The best part of Motorola is moving to the Android team — Google's blockbuster $2.9 billion of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo won't include the Advanced Technology and Projects group led …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Lenovo Explains Its $2.9 Billion Motorola Deal — Google is swallowing a big loss in selling Motorola for $2.9 billion and Lenovo is taking a big risk in acquiring an iconic but troubled brand. — So why are they doing it? — We think we know why Google is selling.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Google Keeps ‘Vast Majority’ Of Motorola Mobility Patents In Sale To Lenovo — Motorola Mobility is being sold to Lenovo, in a deal worth $2.91B. Google is divesting itself of the handset division it purchased for $12.5B in 2011, but it will keep some of the assets — including patents.| Tom Krazit / Gigaom: |
With Motorola sale and Samsung peace, Google finds practical exit to an unconventional (and expensive) deal — In the nearly ten years Google has been a public company, it has been defined by a curious mixture of ambition, futurism, and unpredictability. This week, Google showed that it also knows when to move on.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
After Google Pressure, Samsung Will Dial Back Android Tweaks, Homegrown Apps — In early January, while the rest of the consumer technology world at CES marveled at the sheer size of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy tablet, Google execs were dismayed by what they saw on the screen of the massive 12.1-inch slate …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook aims to conquer mobile by building an arsenal of standalone apps — Facebook's Plot To Conquer Mobile: Shatter Itself Into Pieces — Swiss Army knives don't cut it on mobile. Packing in too many features creates apps that seem bloated and slow.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
California regulator tells unapproved coding bootcamps to “seek compliance or be shut down” — California regulator seeks to shut down ‘learn to code’ bootcamps — Caption: Hackbright Academy and others face hefty fines if they don't comply with regulators| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network — New Clues in the Target Breach — An examination of the malware used in the Target breach suggests that the attackers may have had help from a poorly secured feature built into a widely-used … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon to Offer Kindle Checkout System to Physical Retailers — Project Would Give E-Commerce Firm Access to More Customer Data — Amazon.com Inc. plans to offer brick-and-mortar retailers a checkout system that uses Kindle tablets as soon as this summer, people briefed on the company's plans said.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Why Hasn't Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back? — Yesterday Naoki Hiroshima, an Echofon developer, posted an article about how he lost his extremely short Twitter handle @N in an extortion scheme. Hackers compromised his GoDaddy account with social engineering (calling and lying to an account rep) …
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
New Web addresses now live: .bike, .guru, others now open — Remember this day: it's the day the Web started to expand. As of Wednesday, Internet users can now register addresses in new domain names — the official term for everything that comes right of the dot in a URL.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion — President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Privacy advocates and business interests … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Eric Pfanner / New York Times: |
Flat Sales of Wii U Put Nintendo in Hot Seat — TOKYO — Nintendo said Wednesday that poor sales of the Wii U game console had caused a big drop in revenue in the first nine months of its financial year, adding pressure on the company to execute a strategic U-turn.
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