{"id":652858,"date":"2013-04-17T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=445495"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:15:40","slug":"foxconn-to-pay-microsoft-licensing-fees-for-every-android-device-it-produces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652858","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn to pay Microsoft licensing fees for every Android device it produces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/microsoft-foxconn-android-licensing-fees-445495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/microsoft-retail-store2.jpg?w=650&amp;h=464&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Foxconn to pay Microsoft licensing fees for every Android device it produces\" title=\"Microsoft\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft may not be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/microsoft-executive-android-criticism-443452\/\">tearing it up in the consumer mobile electronics market<\/a> these days, but the company hasn&#8217;t lost its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/03\/microsoft-criticism-steve-ballmer-280491\/\">acumen for rent seeking<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/news\/Press\/2013\/Apr13\/04-16FoxconnPR.aspx\">Microsoft on Wednesday announced<\/a> that it has reached an agreement with Foxconn parent company Hon Hai in which <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> &#8220;will receive royalties&#8221; for all Foxconn-produced &#8220;devices running the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> and Chrome OS.&#8221;\u00a0Horacio Gutierrez, the\u00a0deputy general counsel at Microsoft&#8217;s Intellectual Property Group, said that the company is &#8220;pleased that the list of companies benefitting from Microsoft\u2019s Android licensing program now includes the world\u2019s largest contract manufacturer.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/05\/27\/android-makes-microsoft-more-money-than-windows-phone\/\">Microsoft has long padded its balance sheet with Android licensing fees<\/a> and starting in 2011, the company is reportedly making more money from Android devices than it makes from its own Windows Phone platform.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/OZ3s7oVh0h4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft may not be tearing it up in the consumer mobile electronics market these days, but the company hasn&#8217;t lost its acumen for rent seeking. Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has reached an agreement with Foxconn parent company Hon Hai in which Microsoft &#8220;will receive royalties&#8221; for all Foxconn-produced &#8220;devices running the Android and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}