We have a bit of hardcore business news for you now, in the shape of a Wall Street Journal report into the $750m buyout of AdMob that Google has been planning for some time.
Citing “people familiar with the matter” the WSJ says the US Federal Trade Commission is currently gearing up to launch a full anti-trust investigation into the purchase of one massive advertisement provider by… another even more massive advertisement provider.
The FTC has already briefed congress on the matter, apparently, also sending out feelers to AdMob’s competitors who may be forced into testifying in any future case. This might be BIG NEWS very soon, basically.
There’s a bit more high-brow analysis into this development over at Wired today. We’re not going to risk offering an opinion, as this sort of top-level business news is way over our heads. We’ll leave the analysis to the men in suits, not the bloggers still in pyjamas.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
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