BBA The Chase: Fatima and Hakeem evicted

Malawian housemate Fatima and Zimbabwean housemate Hakeem became the eleventh and twelfth housemates to be booted out of the Big Brother Africa (The Chase) reality show Sunday night.

Sunday night’s dramatic eviction show saw one of The Chase’s most talked about lovebirds – Hakeem and Cleo - part ways and Fatima, who has been at the neck of Elikem and Pokello’s relationship, also leave the show.

After an impressive performance from Tanzania’s Wakazi and recap of the week’s activities, IK, host of the show got down to business to ask the Heads of House in the two houses announce who they saved and who they replaced the saved persons with.

Melvin, Head of House in the Diamond house, revealed that he save Ghana’s Selly and put in her place Hakeem while Elikem, Head of House in the Rubies house disclosed he save himself and put in his place South African Angelo.

After the disclosure, Fatima saw her dream of winning the grand prize of US$300,000 dashed as she was evicted from the show.

Interacting with IK on stage after her eviction, Fatima in an answer to the question whether she was in a relationship with Elikem said “I was in a relationship that I wasn’t really in.”

She however stressed that Elikem will always be her friend.

During The Chase’s second eviction show on June 10, IK revealed to the housemates the existence of a fake third house - Emerald House. read more at  Entertainment News

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Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility

Google announced early on Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, marking the Mountain View Company’s first major move into ownership — rather than mere partnership — in the smartphone hardware space.

“The combination of Google and Motorola will not only supercharge Android, but will also enhance competition and offer consumers accelerating innovation, greater choice, and wonderful user experiences,” Google CEO Larry Page wrote in a post on the company’s official blog.

Google will acquire Motorola for approximately $40 per share in cash, or around $12.5 billion dollars, “a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011,” according to Google’s press release.

“This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world,” Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said in a statement.


Over the past three years, the smartphone arms race between a handful of companies has been cutthroat. Research in Motion, once the dominant player in the handset space, has been bleeding share since the introduction of Apple’s iPhone and the Android operating system. A dwindling Palm was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010, hoping the backing of a massive company will help its handsets and operating system gain share in the competitive space. And of course since Google and Apple entered the ring in 2007 and ‘08, respectively, nothing has been the same since.

But this is a hallmark moment for Google, a company which has not had a part in owning any of the hardware on which its operating system runs thus far. Apple, RIM and HP, by contrast, all own both the software and hardware aspects of their respective product offerings.

Google claims its Android operating system will remain open to all manufacturers, despite the plans for the acquisition.

“Our vision for Android is unchanged and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community,” Android head honcho Andy Rubin said in a statement. “We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.”

“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem,” HTC CEO Peter Chou said in a statement. HTC, a fast-growing Taiwanese handset manufacturer, is a major rival to Motorola.

Part of the impetus behind the deal seems to be the history of ongoing patent lawsuits and headaches Google has faced with its Android platform. Recently, Apple, Microsoft and a consortium of other companies banded together to purchase the now defunct Nortel’s patent portfolio for a record $4.5 billion U.S., a move seen as potentially damaging to Google in terms of future potential litigation.

Read full story here;http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/google-motorola-acquisition/