Big bidding: Apple, Microsoft, RIM nab Nortel patents for $4.5 billion
The bidding war over the patent portfolio from bankrupt Canadian telecom Nortel’s has ended. Google began the bidding on the collection of 6,000+ patents at $900 million, but Nortel…
Posted on Friday July 1st
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