{"id":29969,"date":"2012-08-18T04:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29969"},"modified":"2012-08-18T04:57:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T08:57:51","slug":"video-apple-and-google-to-buy-kodak-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/08\/18\/video-apple-and-google-to-buy-kodak-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Apple and Google to Buy Kodak Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v572ea7328be8169f329c0876131cebe9fe37a123&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v572ea7328be8169f329c0876131cebe9fe37a123&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apple and Google are teaming up to acquire Kodak&#8217;s patents. The exact mix of selection is not known yet, but the two tech companies are looking to spend between $150-$250m. Kodak filed for bankruptcy on Jan 19 of this year. Many of us recall Kodak was once the global leader in film and photography and a former member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It didn&#8217;t quite catch the transition from film to digital quickly enough and ultimately lost grounds to its Japanese challengers. What it has left is a wide array of patents, including over 1000 digital patents worth up to $3B in auction. E-commerce and online photo service Shutterfly purchased Kodak&#8217;s online photo gallery business for $23.8M in the spring, which kicked off Kodak&#8217;s reorganization effort to build a smaller but hopefully more profitable company. For more news and updates, keep it right here at the Financial News Network. I&#8217;m Julia Sun, follow us online for more news on the go.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/08\/18\/1_8tznpths_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/08\/18\/1_8tznpths_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Google are teaming up to acquire Kodak&#8217;s patents. The exact mix of selection is not known yet, but the two tech companies are looking to spend between $150-$250m. Kodak filed for bankruptcy on Jan 19 of this year. Many of us recall Kodak was once the global leader in film and photography and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/08\/18\/video-apple-and-google-to-buy-kodak-patents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Apple and Google to Buy Kodak Patents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}