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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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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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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.| 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.| 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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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.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Officially A Mobile Ad Firm With 53% Of Ad Revenue Now Coming From Its 945M Mobile Users — Linode Moves From Monthly To Metered Billing — Facebook hit a major milestone with today's Q4 2013 earnings as it crossed the halfway point and now earns 53% of ad revenue from mobile …
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Gmail bug made some users accidentally delete emails sent between January 12th to 21st — Gmail bug made some users accidentally delete emails — A recent bug in Gmail resulted in some users accidentally deleting emails and reporting others as spam when applying those actions to other messages.
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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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U.S. Skeptical on Sprint's Possible T-Mobile Deal — Justice Officials Met With Directors Son and Hesse, Signaled Dim View Toward a Merger — Sprint Corp. board members Masayoshi Son and Dan Hesse met recently with Justice Department officials who said they would view a Sprint acquisition …
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Twitter partners with CNN on “Dataminr for News” system that alerts journalists to breaking news — CNN announces partnership with Twitter to ‘revolutionize’ news gathering — Taking the flood of public information on Twitter and mining it for breaking news insights
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Exclusive: Google close to settling EU antitrust investigation - sources — (Reuters) - Google and EU regulators are close to settling a three-year antitrust investigation into the company's suspected anti-competitive behaviour after it offered improved concessions to allay competition concerns, two sources said on Thursday.
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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.
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Ensighten raises $40M to take on Adobe and Salesforce, redefine the marketing cloud — If Series A rounds are meant to prove out a business model and Series B rounds are meant to scale it, then enterprise data and tag management startup Ensighten is poised to get much, much bigger.
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Twitter.com gets new search filters for news, videos, and people you follow — The Web version of Twitter has new search filters that let you restrict your searches to photos, videos, news, people you follow, and nearby locations. — The ability to limit a search to only people you follow … | 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| TMZ: |
Prince Drops $22 Million Lawsuit Against Alleged Music Bootleggers — DROPS $22 MILLION LAWSUIT — Against Alleged Music Bootleggers [Update] — EXCLUSIVE — Call him the artist formerly known as “Plaintiff” ... 'cause TMZ has learned Prince has officially DROPPED his $22 MILLION lawsuit against 22 … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue — Vringo is a tiny company that purchased some patents from Lycos, an old search engine, in 2011 and then used those patents to sue Google. In December 2012, Vringo won $30 million in a jury trial …
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