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If you were thinking of picking up a few shares of Facebook last week, when it went public at a price of $38, you might be seriously tempted now that the stock has fallen $7 in two days.
But forget the dramatic drop. Investors should focus on the only question that matte...

Aereo, a startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it.
U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan in New York dismissed one of three claims...

Facebook Inc. began trading publicly on Friday following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The initial public offering of stock priced at $38 on Thursday. It was at the top end of a projected range that Facebook had already increased just days earlier.
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Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing.
The deal closed Tuesday, nine months after Google Inc. made...

Google promptly reshuffled Motorola Mobility's management Tuesday after completing its $12.5 billion acquisition of the device maker.
Longtime Google Inc. executive Dennis Woodside is replacing Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha as the company's leader.
Goog...

On Tuesday, Google Inc. completed its $12.5 billion deal to take over Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. The deal is Google's largest ever -- nearly four times larger than the previous high, the 2008 purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick for $3.2 billion.
It's ...

Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing.
The deal closed Tuesday, nine months after Google Inc. made...

Facebook's newly public stock is sliding further on its third trading day as investors reconsider how much the social network is worth.
The company's long-anticipated initial public offering of stock raised $16 billion, valuing the company at $104 billion -- more than Am...

The organization overseeing a major expansion of Internet addresses has reopened its system for letting companies and organizations submit proposals.
The Web-based system had been shut down since April 12 because of a software glitch that exposed some private data. At th...

Here are some key developments in Google's Inc.'s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.:
Aug. 15, 2011: Google announces plans to spend $12.5 billion to buy Motorola Mobility. Google would get Motorola's lineup of cellphones, tablet computers and cable s...