Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is being fined after a Texas jury made a judgment against the search giant. Google is being found guilty of infringing on a patent that is related to the Linux kernel, requiring them to pay $5 million. The Linux kernel is being used on Google’s server platforms and Android operating system. The lawsuit filed against Google was from a small company called Bedrock Computer Technologies. Bedrock has sued Yahoo!, PayPal, AOL, Match.com, Amazon, and MySpace in the past. [BBC]

Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM) has acquired the scheduling application company Tungle. The entire team will be joining Tungle after the acquisition. Tungle has a team of 23 people based in Montreal, Quebec with an R&D office in Waterloo, Ontario. They were provided venture capital funding from Commonwealth Capital Ventures, JLA Ventures, and Desjardins Venture Capital. About 40% of the Fortune 1000 companies use Tungle. [Tungle Blog]

PapayaMobile is a social gaming company that has raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Keytone Ventures and DCM. Now PapayaMobile has a total of $22 million in funding. PapayaMobile has over 15 million users on Android and iOS. PapayaMobile has received over 375% growth in their user base since they started the social gaming network in June 2010. Press release is available after the jump:

GREE is a social gaming company based in Japan that has acquired OpenFeint for $104 million. OpenFeint is a platform where mobile device owners can track their scores and buy add-ons. The OpenFeint brand and CEO will remain in place after the acquisition is closed. OpenFeint currently has about 75 million users across Android and iOS. [Develop]

Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) announced this morning that they plan to align their workforce and will be consolidating some operations. As a result, there will be a massive layoff. Nokia will be cutting about 4,000 employees by the end of 2012. Most of these job cuts will take place in Finland, Denmark, and the U.K. Nokia will also be transferring all of their Symbian software jobs and 3,000 employees to Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN).

CloudPassage is a cloud server security company that has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark Capital. CloudPassage provides server security for cloud websites and services. A core competency that CloudPassage has is the Halo architecture, which can automate multiple server securities and allow enterprises to set up security across public cloud environments on a massive scale. One of their most well known clients is Foursquare.

High speed Internet company CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) has acquired cloud computing company SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS) for $2.5 billion. This acquisition deal values Savvis at $40 per share, which is an 11% premium on the company’s stock price as of yesterday. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications provider company in the U.S.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will officially start selling the white iPhone 4 tomorrow. It will be available at AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Apple Authorized Reseller stores. “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” stated Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller. “We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we’ve worked to get every detail right.” The white iPhone 4 will be available across the U.S., Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, and the UK with a suggested U.S. retail price of $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model with a new two-year agreement. [Apple PR]