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- 5y agoFBGOOGLNRTLQShopify’s Gravity-Defying Gains Prime Markets for Solid QuarterBloomberg
- 5y agoNRTLQShaw CEO Says He Weighed Going Private Before Turning to RogersBloombergCanada’s Shaw family hashed over every possible option for Shaw Communications Inc. -- including taking it private -- before agreeing to sell the business they founded more than half a century ago to Rogers Communications Inc.
- 6y agoFBNRTLQAMZNShopify Jumps on New Tools for Merchants, Comparison to AmazonBloombergShopify Inc. plans to launch a business account and card for merchants, adding fuel to the company’s shares which have already been soaring through the coronavirus pandemic.
- 6y agoAMZNNRTLQShopify’s 100% Runup Evokes Visions of Nortel Index DominanceBloombergShopify Inc.’s potential Amazon.com Inc.-like trajectory could result in an index weight “reminiscent of Nortel in 2000,” Credit Suisse wrote in a note.
- 6y agoNRTLQShopify Too Hot to Handle for Some Analysts After Latest SurgeBloombergShopify Inc.’s C$38 billion ($27 billion) stock-market gain since the beginning of the year has some analysts calling a time out.
- 9y agoNRTLQEricsson Cost-Cutting Plan Ends at R&D Department's DoorstepBloombergThe last shakeup in the phone-equipment industry crushed profit margins at Ericsson AB and many of the Swedish manufacturer’s peers didn’t survive. As the next upheaval takes shape, its new chief executive officer says he’s ready.
- 11y agoGOOGLAAPLNRTLQValeant's Slide a Reminder of Canada's BlackBerry, Nortel LegacyBloombergThe dizzying rise and rapid fall in the shares of drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. is eerily familiar to Canadian investors still smarting from the last time a small market was dominated by single stocks -- BlackBerry Ltd. and Nortel Networks Corp.
- 11y agoGOOGLNRTLQAAPLBlackBerry’s Patent Portfolio Is Wireless Trove for AcquirerBloombergBlackBerry Ltd.’s patent portfolio holds two key allures for any acquirer: security and basic wireless technologies.
- 11y agoGOOGLNRTLQMSFTQCOM+1Xiaomi Finds Patent Problem in Chase of Samsung, AppleBloombergXiaomi Corp. became the biggest smartphone seller in China without an extensive -- or expensive -- collection of patents. That low-cost approach is now backfiring as accusations of technology infringement stall its global push.
- 12y agoAAPLMSFTNRTLQNortel, Ceres, Lend Lease Group, Alamo: Intellectual PropertyBloombergNortel Networks Corp.’s warring creditors aren’t the only ones focused on a trial to divide more than $7 billion remaining after the Canadian telecom giant was liquidated.
- 13y agoCATGECSCOMSFT+4BlackBerry Search for Bidders Depends on Patent StockpileBloombergEven as BlackBerry Ltd.’s sales tumbled in recent years, the company continued amassing patents, building an intellectual-property hoard that’s now central to its effort to entice bidders.
- 13y agoMSFTNRTLQCanada Pension Funds Eye Some BlackBerry AssetsBloombergTwo of Canada’s largest pension funds have held preliminary discussions with Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. about its bid for BlackBerry Ltd., yet are holding off from the effort because they only want pieces of the smartphone maker, two people familiar with the talks said.
- 13y agoGMJPMNRTLQCanada’s Moore Says BlackBerry Must Revive by ItselfBloombergCanadian Industry Minister James Moore said it’s up to BlackBerry Ltd. to pull off a turnaround on its own, signaling the government has no plans to intervene in the struggling smartphone maker’s future.
- 13y agoGOOGLMSFTJPMNRTLQ+2BlackBerry’s Money-Losing Hardware Unit May Force BreakupBloombergBlackBerry Ltd.’s withering smartphone business means potential acquirers will pick over its more alluring assets, including software and patents, which together may be worth about $5 billion, roughly in line with the company’s current market value.
- 13y agoGEGOOGLNRTLQNokia Buys Siemens Stake in Joint Unit for $2.2 BillionBloombergNokia Oyj agreed to buy Siemens AG’s share in a six-year venture for 1.7 billion euros ($2.2 billion), giving the Finnish company full access to the phone-equipment maker’s cashflow for a less-than-estimated price.
- 13y agoNRTLQADBEAMZNFB+5Apple, Google in Group Buying Kodak PatentsBloombergA group including Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. agreed to buy patents from bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. for about $525 million, gaining the right to use the digital technology to capture and share photos.
- 14y agoCSCOMSFTNRTLQAAPLApple Agrees to Buy AuthenTec for About $350 Million CashBloombergApple Inc., maker of the iPad and iPhone, agreed to acquire AuthenTec Inc. for about $350 million, gaining fingerprint-authentication technology.
- 14y agoCMCSADISFBNRTLQ+7Astellas, Huawei, Formula One: Intellectual PropertyBloombergA unit of Japan’s Astellas Pharma Inc. sued Hospira Inc., accusing the generic pharmaceutical company of infringing a patent for the drug adenosine, used to diagnose heart blockages.
- 14y agoNRTLQNokia Siemens Appoints Buyout Adviser as Chief Operating OfficerBloombergNokia Siemens Networks, the unprofitable telephone-equipment venture of Nokia Oyj and Siemens AG, named Samih Elhage as chief operating officer starting this month.
- 15y agoEBAYQCOMRMBSIBM+9Kodak, Google, SF Giants, Steve Jobs: Intellectual PropertyBloombergAvenue Capital Group and Blackstone Group LP’s GSO Capital Partners LP unit are among investors that own debt in Eastman Kodak Co. and are seeking to profit from a potential sale of its digital-imaging patents, said people with knowledge of the matter.
- 15y agoNOEINRTLQORCLKODK+4Google, InterDigital, Irell & Manella: Intellectual PropertyBloombergGoogle Inc. General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is in an arms race for patents that is hurting consumers and leaving the company to “sort through the mess” of litigation.
- 15y agoNOEIKODKIDCCORCL+4Google Lawyer Says Patents Are ‘Gumming Up’ InnovationBloombergGoogle Inc. General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is in an arms race for patents that is hurting consumers and leaving the company to “sort through the mess” of litigation.
- 15y agoAONERPXCNRTLQINTC+4Nortel, Gilead, Celgene, Gateway Gaming: Intellectual PropertyBloombergApple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and their partners won court permission to buy the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks Corp. for $4.5 billion. The group outbid Google Inc. in the biggest patent auction in history, covering more than 6,000 patents and applications related to wireless and Internet technology.
- 15y agoAONEODPNFLXFB+5Google, Nortel, Apple, Anheuser-Busch: Intellectual PropertyBloombergPaul G. Allen’s claims that 11 companies including Google Inc. and Apple Inc. infringed his business’s online-shopping technology should remain on hold while the U.S. government reviews the quality of its patents, the defendants said in a filing in federal court in Seattle.
- 15y agoINTCMSFTGOOGLAAPL+1Apple-Backed Group to Buy Nortel Patents for $4.5 BillionBloombergApple Inc. and five bidding partners agreed to buy Nortel Networks Corp.’s remaining patents for $4.5 billion, trumping a bid from Google Inc. and giving them access to technologies used in mobile phones and tablet computers.
- 15y agoRPXCGOOGLNRTLQAAPLApple Is Said to Bid in Auction for Nortel Networks PatentsBloombergApple Inc. has joined the bidders for a trove of patents from Nortel Networks Corp., the bankrupt maker of phone equipment, two people familiar with knowledge of the matter said.
- 15y agoVZAAPLNRTLQGOOGL+2RPX Considering Bid for Nortel’s ‘Nuclear Weapon’ of PatentsBloombergRPX Corp., a patent-buying firm that represents companies including Sony Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., is considering a bid for Nortel Networks Corp.’s portfolio of technology patents, said an attorney representing RPX.
- 15y agoBIDUGILDALNYPFE+9Google, Novo Nordisk, Myriad, MPAA: Intellectual PropertyBloombergGoogle Inc. offered $900 million for the rights to about 6,000 Nortel Networks Corp. patents as the world’s biggest Internet-search company seeks to stave off lawsuits by bolstering its portfolio of intellectual property.
- 15y agoORCLNRTLQGOOGLGoogle to Get $25 Million Breakup Fee If Rival Wins Nortel BidBloombergGoogle Inc. will be paid a $25 million breakup fee if another bidder wins a proposed auction for bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp.’s patent portfolio, according to court papers.
- 15y agoAMTGOOGLAAPLCCI+3AT&T’s T-Mobile Purchase May Crimp Margins for Ericsson, NSNBloombergAT&T Inc.’s $39 billion agreement to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG may spell fewer orders and thinner margins for Ericsson AB and other telecommunications-equipment suppliers.