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Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm licensing

...a suit in San Diego federal court accusing Motorola of breaching its licensing agreement with Qualcomm over a chip used in the iPhone 4S. The... Read more

13 February, 2012

Commodore USA to revive PC64 with Atom processor

...when it transpired that company chief executive Barry Altman had negotiated a licensing agreement with a company — Commodore Gaming — that was itself a licensee of... Read more

27 August, 2010 by Ben Woods

Microsoft licenses ARM architecture

ARM has announced that Microsoft has “signed a new licensing agreement for the ARM architecture” which is widely used in mobile phones... Read more

23 July, 2010

Microsoft forges Android licensing deal with LG

The software giant has chalked up another licensing agreement with an Android phone manufacturer, this time striking a deal with... Read more

13 January, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Microsoft scraps Nook suit, enters e-reader business

...reach a broader set of customers," Microsoft and Barnes & Noble said. The licensing agreement covers the Nook e-reader and Barnes & Noble's tablet products... Read more

30 April, 2012

Sony takes over Sony Ericsson in 1bn euro deal

...cash deal, expected to close in January, lays out a broad cross-licensing agreement between Sony and Ericsson. It also gives Sony ownership of five... Read more

27 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...seen by ZDNet UK. In 2009 Microsoft signed a confidential three-year licensing agreement with Buying Solutions called the Microsoft UK Public Sector Business and... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Yahoo prepares for patent battle with Facebook

...the Times that, "We must insist that Facebook either enter into a licensing agreement or we will be compelled to move forward unilaterally to protect... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Steven Musil

Rumour: Amazon might buy WebOS. But why?

The spectacular failure of Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad media tablet has left the WebOS operating system, originally... Read more

30 September, 2011

Microsoft and Casio strike Linux licensing deal

...disclosed but Microsoft acknowledged it was being compensated by the company. "This licensing agreement is an extension of the long-standing relationship between the two... Read more

21 September, 2011

RIM settles with Dolby over audio patents

...Dolby's two cases against RIM were dismissed on Monday, following a licensing agreement between the two companies that Dolby announced on 4 August. "We... Read more

13 September, 2011

Why the Google-Motorola deal is good/bad news

...been expected to arrive at the usual sort of settlement: a cross-licensing agreement with a small cash transfer to whoever has the most important... Read more

15 August, 2011

Microsoft cuts Android licensing deal with Wistron

...receive some royalties from Winstron. The deal is Microsoft's fourth patent-licensing agreement with a maker of Android devices in two weeks. The announcements... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Jay Greene

EMC taps MapR technology for Hadoop distro

...to power the Hadoop data-analytics platform in its Greenplum products. The licensing agreement, announced on Wednesday, will see proprietary Hadoop-based software developed by... Read more

26 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

ARM profits from smartphone and tablet market growth

...interactions," LG vice president Boik Sohn said in the statement. "This new licensing agreement will provide LG with the next generation processor technology that will... Read more

27 April, 2011

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