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Thursday | Reuters

UPDATE 1-ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent

Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Google, Microsoft Xbox, Video Games

Wed May 22, 2013

Aurora Era-Banner

Consumer satisfaction of iPhone slides in USA

Apple's iPhone has lost ground to Samsung and Motorola Mobility, according to a study that measures customer satisfaction for mobile phones in the USA.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Motorola

Mon May 13, 2013

TechSpot

Recent FCC filings could be for rumored Motorola X Phone

A Motorola smartphone bearing the model number "XT1058" appeared in FCC filings last week.

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Related Topix: Motorola, AT&T, Startups, Versant, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Xinhuanet

Ecipe director warns against protectionist measures by established tech firms

Some established technological firms in the West have responded with protectionism in the face of the threat from innovators and newer entrants, a senior expert on digital economy and international trade told Xinhua.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Cell Phones, Electronics, World News, Asia, China

Sat May 11, 2013

IPKat

F/RAND and SEPs: the EU Commission objects to Motorola's conduct

On 18 March 1848 , the city of Milan rose against the Austrian garrison and marshal Radetzky .

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups

Tue May 07, 2013

Wireless Design & Development

EU: Motorola May Have Violated Antitrust Rules

The European Commission said Monday that Motorola Mobility may have abused its dominant market position by denying Apple the right to use technology essential for mobile phones.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

Mon May 06, 2013

ComputerWorld

EU says Motorola abused its position by seeking and enforcing injunction against Apple

Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents , the European Commission said in a preliminary antitrust review of the case on Monday.

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Related Topix: Motorola, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

MSN Money

EU regulator takes aim at Google over Apple mobile patent lawsuit

The European Commission said it believed Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany over patents essential to mobile phone standards.

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Thu May 02, 2013

Freshnews

Columbia Tech Streamlines Supply Chain Management with New VP

Columbia Tech, a contract manufacturing division of Coghlin Companies, is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott Johnson as Vice President of Supply Chain and Inventory Management.

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Related Topix: Lucent Technologies, Telecom, Worcester, MA

Mon Apr 29, 2013

Business Journal

Good Technology discloses new $50M investment

Good Technology Corp. disclosed in a regulatory filing on Monday that it raised $50 million of a $60 million round of funding.

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Related Topix: Hewlett Packard, HP, Hewlett-Packard, Computers

MarketWatch

Markets: Apple isn't owed top debt rating: Fitch

"Fitch has not released a public rating on Apple; such a rating would likely fall in the high single 'A' rating category." "Consumer product companies such as Sony, Nokia, and Motorola Mobility have proven the risks related to ever-changing consumer tastes, low switching costs, and a highly competitive environment.

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Related Topix: iPod, Microsoft, Startups

SiliconValley.com

Motorola buy delivers Google more heartbreak than patent help

Google's $12.4 billion purchase last year of mobile-phone pioneer Motorola Mobility partly for its trove of more than 17,000 patents is showing signs it wasn't much of a bargain.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

Business Journal

Did Google overpay for Motorola?

Google Inc.'s lack of success in recent patent disputes has Bloomberg wondering whether the search giant overpaid when it bought Motorola Mobility last May for $12.5 billion.

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Sun Apr 28, 2013

Cellular News

Motorola Loses $4 Billion Patent Damages Claim Against Microsoft

Motorola Mobility has lost an attempt to secure US$4 billion a year from Microsoft in a patent dispute after a court slashed the damages applicable to the infringement.

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Related Topix: X360, Microsoft Xbox, Video Games

Fri Apr 26, 2013

O'Reilly Radar

The makers of hardware innovation

Chris Anderson wrote Makers and went from editor-in-chief of Wired to CEO of 3D Robotics, making his hobby his side job and then making it his main job.

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Related Topix: Startups, WebMD, AdMob, Cellphones

ComputerWorld

Microsoft prevails in Xbox patent rift with Motorola Mobility

A US judge has ruled that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wireless and video-encoding patents in its Xbox products.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Wireless, Emerging Technology

Thu Apr 25, 2013

AmericanBankingNews.com

Motorola Mobility Price Target Raised to $65.00 at Raymond James

The firm currently has an "outperform" rating on the stock. MMI has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports.

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Related Topix: Apparel, Raymond Ltd

AmericanBankingNews.com

Motorola Mobility PT Raised to $57.00

The firm currently has a "neutral" rating on the stock. Separately, analysts at BMO Capital Markets cut their price target on shares of Motorola Mobility from $56.00 to $55.00 in a research note to investors on Thursday.

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AmericanBankingNews.com

Motorola Mobility Given New $61.00 Price Target at S&P Equity Research

The firm currently has a "hold" rating on the stock. Several other analysts have also recently commented on the stock.

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Related Topix: Apparel, Raymond Ltd

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