Google announced today they are purchasing Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash, a 63 percent premium on Motorola’s last closing price. Larry Page explained why they bought Motorola in a blog post (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android-google-to-acquire.html): We recently explained
Last month, I linked to a post by Ben Bleikamp where he argues that people shouldn’t try to emulate Steve Jobs’s management practices. It’s a great post and I suggest you read it if you haven’t already. Bleikamp is right, but I want to talk about
There’s been a rash of cancer drug shortages, including drugs used to treat leukemia, lymphoma, and testicular cancer. These shortages aren’t due to shortages of raw materials used to make them. They’re due to Medicare regulation introduced in the Bush administration’s Medicare prescription drug bill. Ezekiel
Julian Sanchez: The very existence of such massive trade in “defensive patents” is, in itself, pretty strong evidence that there’s something systematically quite wrong with the American patent system—because a patent that’s useful for “defensive” purposes is very likely to be a bad patent.
Cato’s Chris Edwards on the debt deal: Wait a minute, those bars are rising! Spending isn’t being cut at all. The “cuts” in the deal are only cuts from the CBO “baseline,” which is a Washington construct of ever-rising spending. And even these “cuts” from the baseline
MacStories’s Cody Fink has a few observations he made while at a local Apple store recently. Among them is this, about how people responded to the MacBook Air: If it wasn’t the first comment, the second immediate observation was that the computer was missing a ”CD-Rom drive”
Ben Bleikamp: First, don’t try to be Steve Jobs. And not because people hate working for him. Don’t try to be Steve Jobs because you’re not Steve Jobs. Be you. You’re not Apple. You’re not Steve Jobs. When you try to act like him you
Ross Douthat comments on the possibility that Norway’s tragedy will make discussion of Europe’s failure to integrate immigrants off-limits: For decades, Europe’s governing classes insisted that only racists worried about immigration, only bigots doubted the success of multiculturalism and only fascists cared about national identity. Now
There’s a lot to learn from the iPad and Google+. Google built and released Google+ because they felt that Facebook, and the social-ification of the web it represents, is a mortal threat to the company’s future. Google+ is a defensive move to try to re-adjust the
I’ve been quiet on the ongoing national debt negotiations between the White House and Republicans. The reason I’ve been quiet is the debate’s been long on speculation and short on facts. There’s a bit more leaking out now, though, so here’s what I’m thinking.
HP is using celebrities to advertise the TouchPad: Tying its marketing to Mr. Brand and Miranda Cosgrove and Lea Michele — stars of Nickelodeon’s “iCarly” and Fox Broadcasting’s “Glee,” respectively — H.P. is underscoring its slogan that the TouchPad “Works Like Nothing Else.” And to add a little swagger,
U.S. planes are participating in air strikes in Libya: “U.S. aircraft continue to fly support [ISR and refueling] missions, as well as strike sorties under NATO tasking,” AFRICOM spokeswoman Nicole Dalrymple said in an emailed statement. “As of today, and since 31 March, the U.S. has flown