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	Your daily dose The day's most popular news: Information Technology and Services See the Latest Headlines » Powered by + Information Technology and Services THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOOGLE-MOTOROLA DEAL: Google Had To Do It--And It Could End Up Being A Disaster - businessinsider.com Google is now in the big, crappy hardware manufacturing business. And it just increased its number of employees by 60%! 680 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share “Defending Android” - techcrunch.com Bravo Google, well played. There's no denying that Google's maneuver this morning to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion in cash is remarkable. Everyone is talking about every possible angle of the deal, as they should. The... 167 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Welcome to Building Windows 8 - blogs.msdn.com Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility. Windows 8 reimagines Windows for a new generation of computing devices.. 108 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Guess who else wanted to buy Motorola? - gigaom.com Google may not have had much of a choice when it came to buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. If it didn't, someone else would have, putting the company in an even bigger patent hole. Who else was interested in the... 176 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Larry Page Just Made Apple And Microsoft Look Like Fools - businessinsider.com Everyone was baffled when Google made those crazy bids for the Nortel patents last month. Remember? They bid things like the distance from the earth to the sun, the number pi, and some other wacky numbers from mathematics..... 253 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share See the Latest Headlines » Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation