Patent Bubble Draining Cash From Mobile Industry
August 18, 2011
An over-excited banker is not a pretty sight and there are plenty of them around with the M&A prospects now opening up in the mobile sector.
Google's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, following on the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's patents and the expected $3+ billion sale of Interdigital, has thrown the mobile industry into confusion.
Who's next to be acquired? RIM? Nokia?
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