Tag: patents

Lenovo’s $2.9 billion acquisition of Motorola has been finalized

Lenovo announced in January that it was going to buy Motorola Mobility from Google, but the acquisition has only been officially finalized earlier today. The transaction has been completed for the previously announced sum of $2.9 billion, which is definitely a lot of money, but it’s still pretty low considering that we’re talking about Motorola here. The ...

The Android patents that Microsoft was hiding have been revealed

Microsoft claims that most Android phones infringe on multiple patents, but has never revealed what those patents are. The company could make as much as a billion dollars a year on Android-related patents and wants to keep them secret, but the Chinese government revealed a list of more than 300 Microsoft patents and applications. These ...