Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest maker of smartphones using Android software, signed a global patent-licensing agreement with Google Inc. to share their technologies. The agreement covers existing patents and those filed during the next 10 years, according to an e-mailed statement today. The strengthened cooperation between the companies may reduce potential litigation, they said. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-27/samsung-google-sign-agreement-to-license-each-other-s-patents.html