Google’s envy of Apple and its dominance of mobile phone market has seen the search engine company buy Motorola Mobility on Monday for the eye-watering sum of 12 billion dollars. This isn’t just an intensification of the patent war that is taking place at the moment. This could be massive shift of emphasis for Google.

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A California court has ordered SAP AG to pay $1.3 billion to Oracle Corp. for copyright infringement. The award is likely to be theheftiest in the history of copyright violation suits. Oracle had been pursuing this case for a couple of years now. SAP has expressed its disappointment over the verdict. The company may try [...]

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About 200,000 smartphones and other devices based on Android are sold each day which is great news for Google’s pockets. But they could be set to lose a large chunk of their profits in a hefty legal battle which has just come to light. Oracle who acquired Java through a $5.6bn (£3.6bn) purchase of Sun [...]

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