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Motorola, the troubled communications hardware maker that plans to split its operations into two different publicly held companies, named Qualcomm Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Jha (pictured) to be one of its co-chief executives. Jha will head up the company’s mobile devices division, once the producer of must-have cell phones that failed to keep pace.

Getting an executive to defect from a successful business like Qualcomm, a maker of wireless chips whose stock has risen by more than a third so far this year,to join Motorola, whose shares have dropped nearly 40 percent so far this year after losing 22 percent in 2007. Does not come cheap. Read the rest of this entry »

Applied Micro Circuits has sold a series of patents, patent applications and associated rights to some of its technologies to wireless chip maker  Qualcomm for $33 million to be paid over the next three years, according to a filing with the SEC today. Applied Micro will retain the non-exclusive right to make and sell its existing products that use technology covered by the patents.

The contract terms include a provision under which Qualcomm could withhold Read the rest of this entry »