Google and Motorola Mobility have confirmed that Chinese authorities have approved Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings.
The planned deal was announced in August 2011 and was given the regulatory go-ahead by European and US regulators earlier this year.
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This week’s podcast from The Fonecast starts with news from RIM and Samsung. The BlackBerry 10 platform is offered to developers, while the Galaxy SIII smartphone makes its official debut.
You can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.
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The latest quarterly results from Motorola Mobility show a net loss of $86 million, more than the previous quarter ($80m) and the same quarter in 2011 ($81m).
Net revenue was $3.1 billion, a 2% increase year-on-year.
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Mark Bridge writes:
We’ve had a few sets of quarterly results in the past week. Let me summarise as best I can.
Qualcomm: doing very well, thank you.
Microsoft: pretty decent, although no-one’s talking much about phones.
Intel: not as good as before, although better than expected.
Nokia: sorry, we’ve lost a billion Euro. Well, we did warn you...
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ZumoDrive, the cloud-based file storage service that was acquired by Motorola Mobility at the end of 2010, is to be closed.
Users who signed up via the ZumoDrive website or the ZumoDrive mobile application are being encouraged to download and save their data. Yahoo! My Drive users are also affected.
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