Google, Bard, PepsiCo, Time Warner: Intellectual Property
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Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. was approved by U.S. antitrust regulators, expanding the company’s mobile-phone patents and increasing competition with Apple Inc.
The acquisition of Libertyville, Illinois-based Motorola Mobility gives Google, the biggest maker of smartphone software, more than 17,000 additional patents in the largest wireless-equipment deal in at least a decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.