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Microsoft wanted to buy Motorola
SOFTWARE FLOGGER Microsoft was also in the market to buy Motorola, according to reports.
According to Gigaom, Microsoft fancied buying Motorola because of its stock of around 17,000 patents.
It's also been mentioned that Microsoft wants to buy Nokia, which also has a few patents and with which it has a deal to sell Windows Phone smartphones.
Yesterday it emerged that Google will buy Motorola's handset business for $12.5bn. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open, the two companies insisted, adding that Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.
Motorola's extensive patent portfolio was attractive to Google, which can use more legal leverage against its smartphone rivals Apple, Microsoft and RIM.
The purchase will also give Google the freedom to use Motorola to build its own Android devices such as handsets and tablets, no matter what decisions its other smartphone partners might make.
Motorola Mobility holds 17,000 existing patents and has 7,500 patent applications pending. µ
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Let's see, an ex-M$ officer runs Nokia into the ground, then M$ steps forward to acquire it. Coincidence?
BUT HECTOR SAID "THIS SHIP IS SINKING" AND LIKE A RAT RAN TO AMD, WHICH HE CAUSED TO CAPSIZE AS WELL. BUT HE WAS BIG FRENZ WITH KERNEL SANDERS.
WHERE IS HECTOR TODAY? NOT AT GOOGLE YOU CAN BET YOUR BOOTIES!