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RIM to outbid Google for remaining Nortel patents?

article published on 17 April, 2011

Last week it was reported Nortel would sell all of its remaining 6000 patents and applications to Google for $900 million unless a rival bidder took a shot. It appears that RIM may be willing to outbid Google, or at least start a bidding war with the search giant. RIM would be part of a consortium including at least "two other mobile phone makers" who will jointly try to outbid Google. ... [ read the full article ]

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biglo30
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_ 		17. April 2011 @ 01:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I dont think rim can take google on in this, this is way to valuable to let go.
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_ 		17. April 2011 @ 02:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by biglo30:
 I dont think rim can take google on in this, this is way to valuable to let go.
Google definitely has much more money than RIM but the question is more along the lines of "How high is Google really willing to bid?"
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