Microsoft buys mobile software firm Danger
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Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley?based Danger, maker of the software that drives T-Mobile's Sidekick Web phone and runs Google's new mobile venture.
Microsoft did not disclose the purchase price on Monday for privately held Danger.
The company, co-founded by Andy Rubin, specializes in software and services designed for the mobile Internet and is best known for the Sidekick, also known as the Hiptop.
"With all the excitement about what's going on in the company right now, this is critical to our future and decisive for our future," said Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of entertainment and devices.