That's not a typo. That's a billion dollars.
FOSS Patents has found that Microsoft has had little success to date in the courts with its Android patents.
We've always known that Microsoft makes most of its mobile money from Android. What we didn't know was just how much Microsoft profits from its patent deals from any single vendor.
Now we do.In 2013 alone, Microsoft made a billion dollars from its Samsung Android patent licensing deal alone. In that same year, Microsoft profited from its Android patents to a tune of about $3.4 billion. That's not small change, even for Microsoft.