In rather unsuspecting news today, Facebook have just announced that they are to purchase WhatsApp for a deal which includes $4 billion in cash, $12 billion worth of Facebook shares and finally another $3 billion in restricted stock units for the founders and employees. WhatsApp has been a text book case of success since it […]
Google gets the thumbs up from the US for Motorola Purchase
It’s only been a few hours since the EU signed off on the Motorola acquisition by Google. The United States has also thrown up two giant thumbs a giving the go ahead for the purchase. This was likely to happen this week, But the same day is pretty quick. The Department of Justice posted the […]
Google get EU approval for Motorola purchase
The European commission has just given the go ahead for the acquisition of Motorola go Google. Google Announced back in August that it would be purchasing Motorola for it’s extensive 17,000 patents and its 7,500 pending patent applications at a price of $12.5 Billion. “We have approved the acquisition… because upon careful examination, this transaction does not itself raise competition issues,” […]