Microsoft to buy 800 patents from AOL for a cool billion dollars

09 April, 2012
As part of the deal, they will also get a non-exclusive license on AOL's remaining 300 patents.

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  • pooooooooooooo
  • s8F
  • 11 Apr 2012

nice logo

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    • Anonymous
    • jPV
    • 10 Apr 2012

    What a clever show M$ & AOL. You think you can fool us. All you Feddie companies will go down the drain.

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      • darkmax
      • IWQ
      • 10 Apr 2012

      They must have forgotten about their coupons, 'else it would have been 1000 patents for the same price

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        • cdanisor
        • spi
        • 10 Apr 2012

        MicroNokia, 09 Apr 2012Year 2018: Best OS phones marked as Windows Phones. In se... moreIf you think that this will be like on PCs (windows, MacOS, Linux) you are very wrong google is not a small company that has to kneel before MS like it was on PCs. Google controls most of ad business in the world .... money is power.

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          • AnonD-46715
          • i2q
          • 10 Apr 2012

          hope google would have web os instead of android ,then piss off in other os's bed so that they could warm up themself,most of this fkin patents and technologies are driven off palm os that is now web os.

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            • AnonD-46715
            • i2q
            • 10 Apr 2012

            what is AOL?

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              • Chamamen07 SonyFan
              • Mqx
              • 10 Apr 2012

              And you are stating this from your best friend that works at google in the part of the development OS department?! One thing is changing the name of the 'Market' to 'Google Play' other is to change their OS name to a different name, they have nothing to gain with that, they are the leading OS without doudt...ANdroid is too big and come to far to be change now, sorry ;)

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                • Chamamen07 SonyFan
                • Mqx
                • 10 Apr 2012

                MicroNokia, 09 Apr 2012Year 2018: Best OS phones marked as Windows Phones. In se... moreHahahaha you're so funny! And that 2018 predictions are from?! From that Octopus that predicted the future, yes?
                WP has so much to grow and will never be an open source like linux (Android), so android will be always 3 steps ahead from WP. Apple will have the same fate as WP because of the simple fact that their genious has past away and it's a manner of time they start making more and more mistakes. I don't like apple and I don't have anything against WP but I really think Android is for all users and all budgets unlike the other the two. Sorry, but this platform is here to stay for many many many long years, all you need is to open your mind and think that android is capable of anything ;)

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Xpf
                  • 10 Apr 2012

                  [deleted post]You* Can't*

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                    • AnonD-6193
                    • KA5
                    • 10 Apr 2012

                    Google will eventually shutdown android...
                    Before that happens, Android will be migrated into Chromium OS...

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                      • Note User
                      • vIq
                      • 10 Apr 2012

                      [deleted post]Really? i think you are stupid if you think that if someone can't speak proper english then he is stupid.

                      Catch yourself!!

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                        • Verbal_Criminal
                        • 9La
                        • 10 Apr 2012

                        AnonD-40, 09 Apr 2012MS is more likely to go after the Android OEMs and ask them... more
                        any articles from a credible site to support your claim?

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                          • AnonD-49883
                          • U{I
                          • 10 Apr 2012

                          AnonD-24971, 09 Apr 2012Aol is such a flop. Should sell their whole company oh..do u've any proof?

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                            • AnonD-24971
                            • gAH
                            • 10 Apr 2012

                            [deleted post]Haha his english is better than yours

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                              • Anonymous
                              • LhR
                              • 10 Apr 2012

                              [deleted post]and yet you replied as you did ?

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                                • AnonD-40
                                • kJq
                                • 09 Apr 2012

                                [deleted post]MS is more likely to go after the Android OEMs and ask them to pay a royalty fee or get sued. MS already got the majority of them paying and I guess MS decided to buy more patents so they can milk the Android OEMs for even more money.

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                                  • Anu
                                  • M7d
                                  • 09 Apr 2012

                                  AnonD-24971, 09 Apr 2012Aol is such a flop. Should sell their whole company True.. AOL is useless

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • sS@
                                    • 09 Apr 2012

                                    MicroNokia, 09 Apr 2012Year 2018: Best OS phones marked as Windows Phones. In se... moreYou got to be kidding me :)
                                    From what I see here is

                                    Android number 1 because it's open source, thus very fast development cycle.

                                    iOS number 2 because it's brand value

                                    WP7 RIP because metro UI is soooo borrinnggg

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                                      • MicroNokia
                                      • m5N
                                      • 09 Apr 2012

                                      Year 2018:
                                      Best OS phones marked as Windows Phones.
                                      In second place iPhone, and in third Android OS smart phones. And this predictions it's real.

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                                        • Waktins
                                        • NHh
                                        • 09 Apr 2012

                                        .. No shit..