(This blog was corrected. An earlier version misattributed a comment in the 16th paragraph.) With Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility now complete, a saga that Brad Stone and I explored in this week’s issue of Businessweek, a closer look at...
Read more »
Photograph by Bettmann/Corbis
Motorola Vice President John F. Mitchell shows off the DynaTAC portable radio telephone in New York City in 1973.
Motorola’s History Lesson for Google
Founder of Color Still Has Faith, Partners With Verizon on Android
Bill Nguyen, the founder of the photo- and video-sharing application Color, acknowledges his company has so far been better at grabbing the attention of venture capitalists than actual users. After accepting $41 million from investors for an application that failed...
Read more »How Voting Power Changes, And What Google’s New Plan Does
Google is proposing a new stock structure that it says will help founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with Chairman Eric Schmidt, preserve their outsized influence over key company decisions. The triumvirate wants to protect their two-thirds voting power,...
Read more »
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Last year's transaction activity was driven by big deals, including HP's $10.3 billion acquisition of Autonomy.
Tech Deals Grow in Size and Shrink in Frequency, Study Says
Broad shifts in the technology landscape and the large cash positions of some of its biggest players drove an increase in the amount spent on acquisitions last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a study released today. Technology companies spent $125 billion...
Read more »
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Kevin Rose,
Kevin Rose’s Road to Google
Kevin Rose likes four-letter words, and he’s about to learn a new one: GOOG. The search giant is hiring Rose, whose social media endeavors have included founding crowd-source news site Digg; Milk, which made the now-defunct Oink app; and Revision3,...
Read more »
