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Investor group to acquire majority stake in Skype

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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September 4 2009

Four months after announcing plans to spin-off its Skype Internet phone business, eBay agreed this week to sell a 65 stake in the unit to an investment group led by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners for $2.75 billion in cash and bonds

FCC to review Google Voice restrictions

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 16 2009

Acting on complaints that the Google Voice service violates FCC rules by restricting calls to rural and other high-cost areas, the FCC asked Google in a letter last Friday to answer a series of questions "that can provide a more complete understanding of this situation."

Cisco to pay $2.9 billion for wireless technology firm

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 16 2009

Cisco Systems, the world’s largest producer of Internet connectivity equipment, extended its reach to the wireless broadband market with an agreement to purchase Starent Networks Corp. for $2.9 billion

Web network management examined at FCC forum

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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December 11 2009

At the first of a series of workshops that are intended to help FCC officials better understand how traffic is managed across Internet service provider (ISP) networks, panelists from the broadband industry and academia agreed generally that effective network management is needed to stem the growing tide of congestion on ISP networks, although divergent viewpoints were expressed with respect to methodology

Microsoft unveils smart phone operating system

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 15 2010

Software giant Microsoft reasserted itself in the mobile smart phone market with the introduction of three handsets on Monday that are powered by the company's new Windows Phone 7 operating system

Motorola accuses Apple of patent infringement

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 15 2010

Motorola joined the smart phone litigation fray with the filing of complaints with two U.S. district courts and with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that accuse Apple, Inc. of infringing 18 Motorola patents in the design of the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod Touch and certain Mac computer products

KDDI, Skype forge strategic partnership

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 22 2010

Web phone service provider Skype gained another key partner this week with the formation of a strategic alliance with KDDI Corp

France outlines auction plans for remaining 3G licenses

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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France, USA
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February 5 2010

French mobile phone operators Bouygues, SFR, Iliad and Orange (the wireless unit of France Telecom) will be given the opportunity to bid on remaining blocks of third-generation (3G) wireless spectrum in May, with the release of auction rules anticipated later this month

House lawmakers argue against adoption of Verizon-Google net neutrality plan

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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August 20 2010

Writing to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday, four Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voiced their concerns with the net neutrality policy framework proposed last week by Verizon Communications and Google, Inc

Maker of wireless location software sues Google for patent infringement, contract interference

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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September 17 2010

Skyhook Wireless, a manufacturer of location software for wireless smart phones, filed a pair of lawsuits against Google on Wednesday that accuse the web search giant of patent infringement and of interference in a contract arrangement between Skyhook and Motorola that induced Motorola to ship Android cell phones without Skyhook's location software