Patent power (part 2) – Google buys Motorola Mobility
Today’s big news is Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. What is fascinating is the logic for the deal. This is not a deal driven by …
Visa adds mobile payment and banking capabilities, as Google and MNOs launch contactless payment services
This week Visa Inc added significant incremental mobile payment and banking capabilities – acquiring Fundamo, a mobile money transfer software company and announcing a five …
Microsoft buys Skype: comparison with eBay deal logic
The big story yesterday was the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 billion. It was only 6 years ago that eBay bought Skype for …
RIM and Google compete to acquire Nortel’s patents
Readers with long memories will remember Nortel’s glory days of the 1990s, when it expanded rapidly by supplying equipment on the back of significant investment in competitive telecoms …
Apple and Google go head to head for on-line subscription payments
With exhibitors packing up their stands in Barcelona, this week has seen the launch by Apple and Google of payment services for on-line subscriptions. The …
Will integration of mobile payment with location based advertising kill Google?
Sadly the watcher in not at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, although from London it would seem that the volume of announcements is best …
FCC approves nine White Space Database Adminstrators
In some areas, it seems that Europe is always following the US. One of those areas is white space cognitive radio. Whilst European and UK …
And the killer application for 2011 is …
I’m very excited to have had my first re-tweet, so today’s post develops the thought further. The retweet was of an economist article which, in …