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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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 … | Businessweek: |
Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories. — To that end, the social giant announced on Thursday it will soon launch Paper, a mobile application …
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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 …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft may select new CEO next week, Satya Nadella Exec VP Cloud and Enterprise, most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon to offer brick-and-mortar stores a Kindle tablet checkout system $AMZN — Amazon.com plans to offer brick-and-mortar retailers a checkout system that uses Kindle tablets as soon as this summer.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Nintendo plans non-wearable health products, still has no interest in smartphone gaming — Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company President Satoru Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health.
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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: |
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| 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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| 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 … | Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track bitcoin with the rest of your finances — The wild ride of bitcoin's value is slowing down, and we are beginning to see the effects of that stability. — Personal finance app Mint is integrating with bitcoin wallet service Coinbase … | Mike Rose / Gamasutra: |
UK fair trade body lays out new rules for in-game purchases — Nearly a year after the UK's Office of Fair Trading said that it planned to investigate free-to-play apps and games aimed at children, the consumer protection group has now ordered the online games industry to “get its house in order.”
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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| Facebook: |
Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. — “It was a great end to the year for Facebook,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
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