Motorola snaps up a mobile OS software firm

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 7, 2010

“Azingo has a number of mobile oriented products on its books,
however one, its Mobile 2.0 operating system is sure to raise
eyebrows. The Linux based operating system seems to go head to head
with Google’s Android operating system that has been embraced so
successfully by Motorola.

“The news was picked up when an employee updated his Linkedin
profile by saying that he now works for Motorola ‘by acquisition’.
The acquisition itself isn’t particularly surprising, given that
the firm’s Co-CEO, Greg Brown told Bloomberg only last week that it
was time for Motorola to ‘do some non-organic things’. We assume
that’s corporate speak for buying smaller companies.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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