INNOVATION ECONOMY
Skyhook battles Google in court
Fight is over control of smartphone location technology
In April of last year, Ted Morgan had two tough brushes with giants of the tech world: Apple and Google. The story of what happened to Morgan’s start-up, Boston-based Skyhook Inc., illustrates just how valuable information about your whereabouts has become. Almost as soon as it was founded in 2003, Skyhook stumbled into a problem that would turn out to be crucial to the fast-growing world of mobile devices.
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