Motorola and Huawei have pulled out the peace pipes, announcing today that they have entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between them, “pending the satisfaction of certain conditions.” In a joint statement, the pair expressed “regret that these disputes have occurred between our two companies,” with Motorola CEO Greg Brown adding that the company valued its long-standing relationship with Huawei and had decided to “return to our traditional relationship of confidence and trust.”
Motorola Mobility is rumoured to be working on its own mobile operating system based on web technologies such as HTML5, which would make it easier for developers to port Android and Apple applications to its devices.
The last week has been tinged with sadness for the Informer, following the death of one of the great celebrity icons of recent times. A star from a young age, this was a life lived very much in the glare of the media spotlight, and yet a life lived with true grace. Rest in peace, Knut the polar bear—gone, but not forgotten.
Resurgent handset vendor Motorola Mobility this week signed an agreement to acquire Swedish IPTV software provider Dreampark for an undisclosed sum.
Nokia Siemens Networks is rumoured to be seeking a renegotiation the terms of its bid to acquire Motorola’s wireless network assets. The planned deal, valued at $1.2bn, has been moving at a glacial pace since its inception in July last year, thanks largely to the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Bureau’s (MOFCOM) reluctance to approve it.
Nokia Siemens Networks has said that its planned acquisition of Motorola’s wireless infrastructure assets will not now complete in the first quarter of this year, as it had previously predicted. The deal had already been pushed back from the fourth quarter of 2010 and NSN is now offering “no further guidance” on when it may be finalised, stressing only that it remains committed to the acquisition.
Motorola Mobility, the spin off that houses Motorola’s device and home businesses has bought a stake in games developer Moblyng, through its investment arm Motorola Mobility Ventures. Moblyng develops HTML5-based games for mobile devices and social networks, and has racked up more than nine million downloads, Motorola said.
At a time when speculation that both Google and Apple are preparing to launch cloud-based music services is rife, Motorola Mobility Ventures has announced the investment of an unspecified sum into Catch Media, a cloud-based content delivery service that last year, was rumoured to be part of Google’s plans to take on Apple in the online music space.
Android’s march towards market dominance continues apace with reports from ABI Research that the collective share of the smartphone market held by Android-based phones has increased from 4 percent to 24 percent in the past year.
Infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks has seen its acquisition of Motorola’s network assets delayed until the first quarter of 2011. The company is still waiting for regulatory approval from the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce of China, which was expected to complete its review before the end of 2010.
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