Google, Pfizer, Vizio, Zynga, Apple, Sturgis, CBS: Intellectual Property - Bloomberg

Google Inc. (GOOG), the biggest maker of smartphone software, agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its largest acquisition, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business. Motorola Mobility, under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn to shift strategy, gives Google more than 17,000 patents it can leverage in negotiations with competitors such as Apple. Larry Page, the Google co-founder who...