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Google buys Motorola, maker of the Droid smartphone for 12.5B!

Kinda big news, the maker of the popular Droid smartphone, Motorola,  is being purchased by Google. Apparently Google needs patents and Motorola has plenty. They also have made of of the best hardware platforms for Google’s Android smartphone software. Motorola owns something like 17,000 patents on mobile phones, and plenty more in the pipeline. Larry …