Between the Lines

Following China’s approval of the deal, Google is set to acquire smartphone maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion as soon as this coming week.

Verdict deliberations in Oracle v. Google have been mixed up as the jury looks like it might be stuck on the question of infringement once again.

The evidence is piling up: Hardware systems will increasingly work in tandem with the cloud.

Twitter was quick to act when it was accused of recording its users across the Web amid an announcement that it will allow users to opt-out of online activity tracking.

Wireless carriers’ never-ending effort to preserve ARPU (average revenue per user) may begin to hurt. Will there be a pushback as consumers and business have to offset less profitable M2M connections.

The Oracle v. Google jury is facing some tough times over highly technical terminology and even personal illness.

Intuit’s tax business could have been better, but the company’s SMB business is healthy and QuickBooks Online is going global.

The results seem to indicate that Salesforce’s cloud efforts are paying off and large enterprises are on the bandwagon.

HP will need to lay off workers to boost its profitability, but then reinvest the savings in more lucrative markets.

Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility, sees a possible Windows 8-Windows Phone juggernaut.

HP and Dell have seen their target price lowered after Windows 8 was dubbed “a disappointment” in an analysts note.

Google has removed the tag identifying the Persian Gulf from its popular mapping service, angering the Iranian government. Tehran says it will sue the search giant.

Toshiba’s plan to double its operating profit in the coming years includes slashing its domestic flat-panel television production and focusing on electronic devices and chip sales.

Zynga leverages its R&D and investments by reusing its game code and then offshoring maintenance as the product cycle ends.

Salesforce.com’s first quarter growth is likely to be off relative to its monster fourth quarter, say analysts.

Yahoo claimed Facebook had fraudulently filed some of its patents, but Facebook hit back by proving Yahoo hadn’t even checked the records to see if it was right.

Kirill Tatarinov, president of Microsoft’s business solutions division, said “switching from Siebel is becoming very popular in large enterprise.”

Target, one of America’s biggest big box retailers, is finally putting more of the focus on its online experience.

Within hours of Oracle releasing a cache of HP documents seen during litigation between the two companies, HP fired back with a release of its own.

In another nod to gamification in the workplace, Yammer is enlisting help from Badgeville.