Google 2011, "The Globe and Mail" reported that Google bid $900 million for 6000 Nortel Networks patents. On August 15, 2011, Google made its largest-ever acquisition to date when it announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion subject to approval from regulators in the United States and Europe. In a post on Google's blog, Google Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page revealed that the acquisition was a strategic move to strengthen Google's patent portfolio. The company's Android operating system has come under fire in an industry-wide patent battle, as Apple and Microsoft have sued Android device makers such
Google Books rights of photographers, illustrators and other visual artists." May 2010: It was reported that Google would launch a digital book store called [[Google Editions]]. It would compete with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and other electronic book retailers with its own e-book store. Unlike others, Google Editions would be completely online and would not require a specific device (such as kindle, Nook, or iPad). June 2010: Google passed 12 million books scanned. August 2010: It was announced that Google intends to scan all known existing 129,864,880 books within a decade, amounting to over 4 billion [[digital page]]s and 2 trillion