Apple-Qualcomm: Peace in our time
22 April 2019 00:00
Duration: 12:23
Apple and Qualcomm were set to do battle in a San Diego courtroom earlier this month to sort out a years-long dispute over the value of Qualcomm’s cellular communications technology. Then after a nine-person jury was sworn in, the two companies abruptly settled. How this impacts the mobile industry, and a series of related cases, is yet unknown.
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