The atmosphere in the current market is odd and unpredictable. Google´s Android mobile OS emerged and started growing to an unexpected extent, comfortably exceeding Apple. In the last quarter, 50% of smartphones sold worldwide use Android, compared to 20% of IOS, the system of the iPhone and iPad.
But, which are the main reasons that explain this move? Why Google decided to buy Motorola?
1-Patents: by buying Motorola, Google acquires around 17.000 patents. This will allow Google to defend against an avalanche of lawsuits to its Android software, used in more than 150 million mobile devices worldwide.
2-Hardware division: Google needs a hardware division. Its own business, software and advertising, is much more profitable, but it is also volatile. Motorola has the know-how, the procedures and the engineering to manufacture devices. Google is now in a much more robust position than before. They have a wide spectrum of possibilities: smartphones, tablets, televisions connected to the web, etc. (more…)
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Google acquired Motorola Wireless for 12,500 million dollars
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Hexacta at GoogleDevFest Argentina
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
For the past few years, Google has been hosting DevFest events in several cities all over the world. It’s a couple of days where developers, designers and other software professionals get together to hear the latest on google technologies and related topics, straight from the engineers who work on them.
On November 1st and 2nd, we had the second edition of the DevFest in Buenos Aires. Hexacta sent around five or six excited participants each day — I got to be there on day one.
Android and Internet computing caught the focus this year. The event featured a number of presentations on Android, Chrome and HTML5, Application Engine and GWT. Not all of them were purely technical: we also heard tips and guidelines on how to make the most of these products to build great applications (and hopefully sell them, too!). We will be writing all about it on our IT Blog.
Google DevFest 09
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
17th of November was a very cool day, i could enjoy the Google DevFest 2009 in Argentina and i will share you some exiting thinks from this event.
Some news about Google Apps
Google is working in a lot of new stuff, one of them is the improvement of the GEO API. The 3th version of Javascript API for Google Maps is growing up faster and its focused on speed browsing and will bring us some new cool feautres.