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Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola this week has been widely interpreted as a bid to control the mobile phone company’s portfolio of 17,000 mobile patents. As Colin Gibbs noted last week, handset manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung and HTC appear increasingly willing to claim patent infringement in order ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

Warner Bros. Acquires Turbine, Developer of Lord of the Rings Online; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the video game division of the Burbank movie studio, said it has acquired Turbine Inc., a Massachusetts developer of massively multiplayer online games. (LA Times blog) Kit Digital to Power Tribeca […] Read more »

CNET announced the winners of its third annual “Webware 100″ awards today, and just like high school homecoming kings and queens, the 10 winners of the Photo & Video category were all popular kids. The awards were created to recognize “the best Web 2.0 sites, services, […] Read more »

As was expected, CBS is revamping TV.com to be a video-viewing destination. The well-URLed site, which six months ago started featuring Hulu content, has added CBS shows, and Monday is announcing deals for shows from MGM, Sony, PBS, Endemol USA and Showtime, according to reports tonight. […] Read more »

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Updated: God, it is starting to get really really depressing! After the big cuts at Yahoo yesterday, today the Silicon Valley was rocked by job cuts at CBS Interactive and its CNET division. CBS had acquired CNET in May 2008 for close to $1.8 billion. My […] Read more »

The 2008 election and online video have had a lot of special moments together: The CNN-YouTube primary debates. Obama Girl. Will.i.am‘s “Yes We Can.” Saturday Night Live’s “Fey-lin” skits. And even though those examples might lean to the left, online video isn’t just a liberal thing. […] Read more »

Everyone’s weighed in on CBS’ $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET, but no one’s really talking about how the deal impacts their web video efforts. Liz thinks CBS is hipper than CNET when it comes to web video, but how will the two companies join forces? We […] Read more »

CBS is bragging that when it acquires CNET, as it announced it would do this morning for $1.8 billion in cash, it will instantly become “one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the U.S., with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and […] Read more »

Well JANA Partners may not have been happy with the direction being taken over at CNet Networks, but CBS has given the company its $1.8 billion stamp of approval. Taken at face value, it might seem like a crazy deal, but in fact it’s a calculated, smart and well thought-out move. Continue Reading Read more »

I’m daily consumer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, mostly for its entertainment value, but there is also often real business intelligence there — even if, sometimes, you have to read between the lines and reverse-engineer huge doses of irony to get it. (We posted […] Read more »