All the stories tagged with licensing

FIFA Extends Licensing Deal With EA Until 2022

05/08/2013, Electronic Arts recently secured a deal with Disney to exclusively develop future Star Wars games, but it looks like they have also secured a pretty big licensing agreement for its FIFA brand. EA announced they have closed another licensing deal with [...]

Microsoft’s Office 2013 Software Licenses Non-transferable

02/18/2013, Microsoft has recently launched its Officer 2013 software last month and has announced that the licenses for the software are non-transferable. What does that imply for the end user? Basically you can only install the software on one machine now, [...]

Quanta to pay Microsoft royalties for Android products

10/14/2011, Microsoft has been rather aggressive lately in their attempt to license some of their patents to Android manufacturers, such as HTC and Samsung, and recently they have managed to land a rather big fish in the form of Quanta, who [...]

Samsung to start paying Microsoft royalties for Android devices

09/28/2011, We know that Microsoft has been quietly collecting royalties for patents used in Android products. HTC has been reported in the past that they’re paying $5 to Microsoft for every Android device they put out, and not too long ago [...]

ViewSonic and Acer to pay Microsoft royalties for Android products

09/08/2011, While Windows Phone 7 may not be doing as well as Microsoft had hoped, unlike Apple, Microsoft has been more or less content with sitting by the sidelines and try to make money off their competitors through royalties and licensing. [...]

HP might license webOS out, Samsung in the picture

06/29/2011, HP, the largest manufacturer of personal computers in the world is currently talking to different parties about licensing their webOS mobile software, according to Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker. He mentioned that “we are talking to a number of companies. [...]

MPEG LA Opens Up H.264 for HTML5 Video in Preemptive Strike Against Google

08/26/2010, In a move to circumvent Google’s WebM video format from gaining traction as the Internet is exploring HTML5 options, the MPEG Licensing Association, also known as MPEG LA, is making its own H.264 format open and available for free Internet [...]