TECH NEWS: Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion!

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By: CNBC.com with Reuters / Published: Monday, 15 Aug 2011 | 7:58 AM ET.

Google said it will buy wireless phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings for about $12.5 billion in cash in a move to bolster the adoption of its Android mobile phone software.

Google said it would pay $40 per share, a 63 percent premium to Motorola Mobility's Friday close on the New York Stock Exchange. Motorola Mobility shares jumped 59 percent in premarket trade on Monday. Shares of Google were 2.5 percent lower in pre-market trading.

Google, maker of the Android mobile phone operating system software, has been forging ahead in the smartphone market, but has been hampered by a lack of intellectual property in wireless telephony.

Earlier this month, fresh from losing a bid to buy thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel, Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond blasted Microsoft, Apple and "other companies,'' accusing them of colluding to hamper the increasingly popular Android software by buying up patents.

Google said the deal will close by the end of 2011 or early in 2012 and that it will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

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TECH WORLD: Twitter buys analytics startup BackType!

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(File image) In this March 11, 2011 photograph, Twitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco – AFP.

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it has acquired BackType, a San Francisco-based startup that helps publishers measure the impact of their social media use.

Financial details of the transaction were not released.

Twitter, in a message on its @TwitterGlobalPR feed, said BackType would ‘focus on creating tools for our publisher partners.’

BackType said it would be relocating to Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

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