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Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5B, Says “Android Will Stay Open”

August 16th 2011 | Posted by Keshav

Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price represents a premium of 63 percent to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares last Friday. Google had about $39 billion in cash at [...]

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Google confirms Android security issue, server-side fix rolling out today

May 18th 2011 | Posted by Keshav

No Android security flaw is good news for Google, but the recently discovered ClientLogin issue that left the OS vulnerable to impersonation attacks is surely at least a bit more welcome than some of the alternatives. That’s because the flaw can be fixed at the server-side level (rather than on millions of Android phones), and [...]

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Android’s Fast Growth May Challenge Nokia’s Symbian

November 15th 2010 | Posted by Keshav

Gartner expects Google’s Android mobile operating system to grow rapidly and challenge global market leader Symbian by 2014. Nokia, which uses Symbian, is expected to have 40.1 percent of the market this year, but fall to 30.2 percent in 2014, when Android may reach 29.6 percent. Apple’s share is also expected to decline. Google’s red-hot [...]

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