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The five-years patent lawsuit battle between Microsoft and Google had finally come to an end after both companies agreed to drop the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount. The announcement was made by in a joint statement from the two companies.

Patent holding company Intellectual Ventures' second crack at holding Motorola Mobility liable for using its technology without permission partially succeeded on Wednesday after a U.S. jury in Delaware found Motorola infringed a patent on multimedia text messaging.

After its recent purchases of Motorola Mobility and IBM's server business, Chinese personal computer (PC) maker Lenovo said that it will continue its string of acquisitions to drive its growth.

The Motorola Mobility unit of Google was mostly defeated in the antitrust case it filed against LCD makers it had claimed colluded to fix prices, Bloomberg reported.

Tech giant Apple Inc did not infringe on a patented technology owned by Google to make the iPhone, according to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Google was recently awarded the patent to utilize an eye-tracking technology that could establish a pay-per-gaze advertising system.

The US Court of Appeals renewed the patent claims that Apple filed against Google's Motorola Mobility.

Facebook hired Gary Briggs from Google's Motorola Mobility as its first ever marketing chief.

Google's Motorola Mobility launched the Moto X smartphone to revive the business.

Google would spend more than US$500 million to market Moto X and begin its separation from the android pack.