Last year AT&T attempted to acquire T-Mobile in order to gain more spectrum for their 4G LTE network. That merger ended up failing since AT&T pulled out and had to give up a good amount of spectrum to T-Mobile. AT&T might not be the company that's going to get T-Mobile but it looks like … [Read more...]
Apple Plans To Announce How They’re Spending $100 Billion Tomorrow
March 18, 2012 By
Apple without question is one of the biggest companies in the world right now. It seems that every single quarter of the year they have record earnings to announce. Over the years they've been adding more and more money to what is now a pile of cash worth a total of just slightly under $100 billion. … [Read more...]
ZL Podcast #54 – CES 2012 Is Coming, Ice Cream Sandwich Updates, AT&T And T-Mobile Merger Results…
December 24, 2011 By
This week some pretty interesting things happened. Some sources started reporting that Microsoft and Nokia were together looking to purchase RIM. That would make some sense since Nokia could improve the hardware RIM makes and Microsoft could improve the software allowing Nokia and Microsoft to … [Read more...]
Microsoft, Amazon, And Nokia Have All Considered Purchasing RIM
December 21, 2011 By
RIM might not be the biggest company anymore when it comes to mobile devices but they are still around. And I guess even though they aren't really the most interesting company they might be getting purchased from another company. The list of possible buyers includes Microsoft, Nokia, and Amazon all … [Read more...]
Motorola Won’t Get Any Special Treatment From Google
November 13, 2011 By
Recently Google announced their plans to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12 billion. Now this is actually a pretty big purchase, think about it. Motorola is the company that produces phones like the Droid RAZR, Droid Bionic, Droid X, and other Droid smartphones as well as Xoom tablets. Google is … [Read more...]
Why HP Gave Up On webOS Too Early After Investing Billions
August 21, 2011 By
This past week HP announced something very surprising, and that was their plans to spin off their PC business and move away from webOS. It all started over a year ago in April of 2010 when HP decided to buy Palm for $1.2 billion. During that year they announced a few new devices and only a few like … [Read more...]
ZL Daily #106 – Google Buys Motorola Mobility, Fusion Garage Grid 10 And Grid 4…
August 15, 2011 By
Today Google announced something big relating to smartphones and Android. And that's that Google is actually buying Motorola Mobility. Motorola manufacturers Android phones including the Droid lineup. The deal is worth $12.5 billion and Google will get full control of Motorola Mobility and all of … [Read more...]
Google Plans To Buy Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
August 15, 2011 By
Google is pretty much just a software company that partners with hardware companies to produce different devices like the Chromebooks and the Nexus Android phones. Google isn't like Apple, Apple will build both the hardware and the software and it looks like Google is trying to be more like Apple. … [Read more...]
Apple Rumored To Buy Barnes & Noble, Crazy, But Makes Sense
July 30, 2011 By
Apple, buying Barnes & Noble? That's crazy, but wait, maybe we should listen to the source. Boy Genius Report recently had a source tell them Apple is thinking about buying Barnes & Noble, but it is an unproven source, so we do not know if we are ready to trust him/her yet. This move, to me … [Read more...]
Google Acquires PushLife, To Be Used With Google Music
April 10, 2011 By
Not too long ago Google's Music app for Android leaked out, it was a future version that had support for some integration with Google's cloud. The problem though was that the integration didn't really work, probably because it was just a beta build and wasn't complete. But it looks like that new … [Read more...]
