The story floats Samsung and Microsoft as potential buyers, but both seem like long shots.
Within days of this transaction, Acacia filed separate disclosures with the SEC announcing that a new subsidiary immediately licensed these newly acquired patents to both Samsung and Microsoft.
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HP, RIM (BlackBerry), HTC, Samsung, and Microsoft that they will all be joining in the race for the best tablet and the wallets of both consumers and business customers.
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Nokia, Samsung, RIM and Microsoft all have lots of resources, and great historical experience in the market.
Apple and Samsung, Software companies like Microsoft and Google, retailers like Amazon and Walmart, plus the broadcast networks, and cable and satellite companies, focused on improving the user experience of television.
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"Mini-notebooks, " which include the hardback-book sized UMPC standard engineered by Intel and Microsoft (and manufactured by Samsung, OQO and Asus), sold fewer than 350, 000 units worldwide in 2007, according to IDC data.
That would make it more competitive with the iPod and compelling competition for portable media players from Microsoft partners Samsung, Creative and iRiver, as well as Thomson and Archos.
With limited scale and resources to invest relative to its competition including Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Huawei, amongst others, the longer term outlook remains challenging for BBRY, in our opinion.
Nearly 1, 000 new plants have been built in Texas since 2005, from the likes of Microsoft, Samsung and Fujitsu.
The word from Chi Mei Optoelectronics makes us think that Microsoft and Samsung aren't the only ones to get the 22-inch bug.
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Several of its competitors Samsung, Microsoft, Google and Apple have inroads in those device categories already and are making more.
Microsoft and Samsung have signed a cross-licensing deal on patents, in an apparent bid to better protect both companies in their ongoing battles with Apple.
Rather than sell those eyeballs programmatically for pennies, Bankoff has built a sales team of 26 that direct-sells premium sponsorships to the likes of BMW, Microsoft and Samsung.
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While Apple remained comfortably in front with its 39.6 percent, just about every rival made a dent: Samsung, ASUS, Amazon and Microsoft all gained at least a small amount, even if no one manufacturer posed a major threat.
In addition to resonating more with people of all ages for whom social change has become a high priority, being a social purpose leader is a competitive imperative: Samsung, Microsoft, and Research in Motion are much more evolved in this area.
So even though Apple is in a secure position at the moment, knowing that there is pent up demand for the next iPhone, playing it safe may be missing an opportunity to take the design mojo back from Samsung, Google and even Microsoft.
Apple, Google and Microsoft, plus its traditional competitors Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG and others to come.
Samsung, Google, even Amazon and Microsoft want a bigger piece of the market and they field less pricey offerings.
In comparison, rivals like Google and Microsoft spend around 15 percent of revenues, and Samsung sits in between at around 6 percent.
In such a scenario, UBS favors sectors such as technology, and stocks such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Visa, Ricoh, Samsung Electronics and Tokyo Electron.
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In February we heard from LG and Samsung that they find no market demand and no carrier support for the Microsoft-owned platform.
The top 10 brands perceived to be the most "visionary, inspiring, bold and exciting" were Google, Apple, Samsung, Ikea, Microsoft, Sony, BMW, Audi, Coca-Cola and eBay.
They include Nike, Target, Singapore Airlines, American Express, Apple, Microsoft, Costco and Samsung.
Companies such as Google, RIM, Microsoft, Amazon and Samsung all depend in some way on Navteq maps, giving Apple new leverage over those other companies.
The end result of this is that Motorolo and Samsung are rather weakened in their cases for patent infringement by others, including Microsoft and Apple.
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Apple has a leading market position by a wide margin with its iPad and others, like Microsoft (MSFT) and several mobile phone manufacturers, like Samsung, are trying to catch up.
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Perry even said Samsung will directly compete with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo as a major games provider.
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Rounding out the rest of the top five were Creative Technology at 4%, Microsoft at 3% and Samsung with 2%.
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