{"id":655576,"date":"2013-05-01T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=478589"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:30:26","slug":"microsoft-could-generate-8-8-billion-annually-from-android-royalties-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655576","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft could generate $8.8 billion annually from Android royalties by 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/01\/microsofts-android-licensing-agreements-earnings\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/steve-ballmer-happy.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft&#039;s Android licensing agreements\" title=\"Microsoft&#039;s Android licensing agreements\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/05\/07\/google-infringed-oracle-copyrights\/\">unlawfully used technology from Oracle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> and others when creating its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> and Chrome operating systems, leaving its vendor partners exposed. Rather than engaging in expensive and often drawn out lawsuits, a majority of Android vendors have signed licensing agreements with patent holders. Microsoft has already <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/01\/12\/lg-and-microsoft-sign-patent-agreement-over-android-and-chrome-os\/\">signed licensing agreements with more than 20 Android manufacturers<\/a>, including big-name players such as HTC, Samsung and LG. The company claims that 80% of Android smartphones sold in the U.S. and most devices sold throughout the world are <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/24\/microsoft-zte-android-licensing-agreement-462609\/\">now covered under its various agreements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/01\/microsofts-android-licensing-agreements-earnings\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/oGPQ-gs2CrQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google unlawfully used technology from Oracle, Microsoft and others when creating its Android and Chrome operating systems, leaving its vendor partners exposed. Rather than engaging in expensive and often drawn out lawsuits, a majority of Android vendors have signed licensing agreements with patent holders. Microsoft has already signed licensing agreements with more than 20 Android [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655576","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}