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Android phone makers welcomed Google's acquisition of Motorola, saying the move would bolster protection of the platform as the it comes under fire in escalating patent infringement lawsuits.

Google announced it will buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, in a move that will give the Internet giant a presence in smartphone hardware and bring it thousands of new patents.

Google wants federal officials to review contested Lodsys patents, a move to protect its Android app developers from legal action.

IPhones topped usability studies, according to Harvard students, followed by WIndows Phones, suggesting Microsoft's struggling platform may become a formidable contender.

Apple's courtroom battles against Samsung, HTC and Motorola may be a proxy war on Google's Android OS, a complicated undertaking with potentially large rewards.

Apple and Google continue to dominate the smartphone market, as the two companies look for ways to continue their momentum and squash Microsoft and Research in Motion's bid for a comeback.

Google, Microsoft and others are not fulfilling the potential that smartphones and mobile technology offer to transform Internet search to be quicker and more precise.

Antitrust regulators are examining key areas of Google's business in its ongoing investigation of the company, suggesting potential threats to its plans to expand its business beyond its search engine business.

Google+ may surpass Twitter and LinkedIn to become the world's second most-used social networking site, according to a recent survey, but it still has some hurdles to jump to keep its users active on the site.

Google is fighting just about every tech company over patent purchases, while people love technology -- sometimes a little too much.

A new Civil War may be brewing in the U.S., this time over mobile operating systems, as a study indicates Android and iOS preferences run along state lines.

The patent fight between Google and its competitors is escalating into a public war of words, as the government examines the recent Nortel patents sale to determine if it stifles competition rather than spurring innovation.

Google+ and iCloud have developers even more eager to create apps for Google and Apple, as the two platforms remain leaders in the mobile sector.

Google is accusing the consortium that outbid it for Nortel's patents of colluding to weaken its Android OS, a claim the Internet giant may continue to voice as competition for mobile patents grows.

Google's new social network, Google+, attracted over 25 million users in less than a month, according to research firm ComScore, outpacing Facebook and Twitter to become the fastest-growing website to reach the milestone.