Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Breaking: EU Approves The Big G To Buy Motorola - plus my selection of links for the day

So, it's time for another links roundup. I've dug up stuff on Google, Xerox and Facebook.

Google
Google: also known as The Big G

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To kick it off, let's see who's been discussing Google? It was www.webpronews.com with their post entitled Breaking: EU Approves Google To Buy Motorola.

What did they say about Google? They said:
After five months, European Union regulators have approved of the purchase of Motorola Mobility by Internet search giant Google, Inc. The main reason Google wants to purchase Motorola is to increase its stable of patents
and went on to say
The main reason Google wants to purchase Motorola is to increase its stable of patents. The EU was mainly concerned about the stifling of competition of the deal were to go through. At this point, the commissioners charged with making the decision of whether to approve the buy or not have determined that there is no current cause for concern. But, they have said that they will keep an eye on Google to see how they behave in the future


Next we have a site that's been writing about Xerox - ACS CEO Blodgett on Competition, Xerox Acquisition.

They said:
With its $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services in 2009, Xerox made a bold play in the business-process outsourcing market
... OK ...
And according to Lynn Blodgett, former CEO of ACS and now Xeroxs president of Services Business, the acquisition wasnt just good for Xerox: The latters considerable resources (including the famed Xerox PARC research unit) fast-tracked the pre-existing ACS roadmap


To finish we have Today's Top Stories: 8-Inch iPad Rumors, Angry Birds Now on Facebook from mashable.com, focussing on Facebook. The wrote good quality stuff, particularly
Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world
and
Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories

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