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By admin, on August 23rd, 2011
 Google Buys Motorola Mobility Google is buying Motorola Mobility for 12.5 billion dollar, at $40 per share, which is at a 60% premium of Motorola’s share’s closing price on Friday, August 12. The deal has been approved by the board of directors of both the companies, but will have to get regulatory approval in the U.S. and European Union to go through. Google plans to operate Motorola Mobility as a separate business – a licensee of Android while Android will remain an open platform. If the deal is stopped by Federal Trade Commission, Google will still pay Motorola $2.5 billion. Continue reading Google Buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
By admin, on September 6th, 2010
 Twitter for Smartphones The number of twitter users using it on their mobile phones has seen a meteoric rise by 62% since mid-April this year. The number of new users starting on Twitter on mobile has increased to 16% compared to 5% before. The business managers at Twitter have been following a strategy to increase its use on mobile. Earlier there were a lot of third party applications for using Twitter on iPhone, but there was no application specifically from Twitter. The Twitter management decided to acquire an iPhone application called Tweetie and turned it into the official Twitter application for iPhone, with a new sign-up interface. Continue reading Twitter Use on Mobile Phones Growing by Leaps and Bounds
By admin, on August 25th, 2010
 Google has launched a revamped mobile Web site for Finance. The mobile Web site now offers the same features and functionality which are available on the desktop version of Google Finance. You can access the mobile Web site when you do a search for stock ticker or company names on your mobile device, or when you tap the “Finance” tab on the Google mobile home page. Continue reading Google Launches a Revamped Mobile Finance Web site
By admin, on August 14th, 2010
 According to the research firm Gartner, Android has now overtaken Blackberry and iPhone to become the number one selling smartphone operating system in the United States. Worldwide it ranks number three, while iPhone is at number four in the second quarter of 2010. Symbian devices are the top selling worldwide with a market share of 41.2%. Smartphone sales have increased by 50.5% totalling 61.6 million units from Q2, 2009. Continue reading Android is the Number One Selling Smartphone in the U.S.
By admin, on August 14th, 2010
 Oracle is suing Google claiming that the Android mobile operating system developed by Google violates Oracles’s patents and copyrights for Java software. Java was developed by a company called Sun which was acquired by Oracle for 5.6 billion dollars. Android is an open source platform which Google gives away for free to the hardware manufacturers. All Google applications are tightly integrated into Android, and Google also plans to make money on Android platform through mobile advertising. Continue reading Oracle Sues Google over Android for Patent Infringement
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