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Google to buy Motorola Mobility in $12.5 billion deal
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article published on 15 August, 2011
Search giant agrees to buy Android partner for $40 a share.
Google Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. announced this morning that Google will acquire its Android partner in a deal worth $12.5 billion. The board and directors of both firms unanimously approved the deal, which will see Google paying $40 a share, a 63% premium over the closing price of Motorola Mobility on Friday, August 12.
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15. August 2011 @ 09:44 |
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Don't forget Motorola has $3 billion in cash, so the deal is really $9.5 billion. Should be decent deal if the patents help them protect Android.
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oappi
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15. August 2011 @ 10:51 |
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i thought they only bought mobile division from motorola not whole motorola and thus wont get $3b, or am i missing something?
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15. August 2011 @ 10:58 |
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Google should be the ones trying to get T-Mobile. Then they would be doing something.
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15. August 2011 @ 10:59 |
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Originally posted by oappi:
@DVDBack23
i thought they only bought mobile division from motorola not whole motorola and thus wont get $3b, or am i missing something?
Motorola Mobility has $3 billion in cash, Motorola Solutions (the half Google didn't buy, has over $6 billion in cash). Separate entities. Spun off last year since the company as a whole was having focus problems.
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15. August 2011 @ 13:32 |
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Oh thanks for clarifying that =)
It is going to be interesting to see how google buying motorola is going to affect rest of the android device manufacturers, like samsung and htc.
If you ask me buying nokia would have been wiser choise. They still have big market share, good brand, it is very cheap and has a lot of patents that would be useful against apple and ms. Not to mention kill windows phone in the process (at the moment wp has 1.6% market share, but nokia going for wp might bring it alive a bit).
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15. August 2011 @ 13:50 |
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Originally posted by oappi:
@DVDBack23
Oh thanks for clarifying that =)
It is going to be interesting to see how google buying motorola is going to affect rest of the android device manufacturers, like samsung and htc.
If you ask me buying nokia would have been wiser choise. They still have big market share, good brand, it is very cheap and has a lot of patents that would be useful against apple and ms. Not to mention kill windows phone in the process (at the moment wp has 1.6% market share, but nokia going for wp might bring it alive a bit).
No problem. In regards to your Nokia statement, while it of course would have made some sense, it would not have come cheap. Any bid for Nokia (even now) would need to be in the $25 billion range, which makes it not really worth it since Google could probably buy every patent they need for less than that :)
In terms of the bigger picture, I think Google pulled a fast one here on Apple and RIM, who just purchased Nortel's patents for $4.5 billion after Google dropped from the race. Surely, Google did not come up with this Motorola deal in weeks after being spurned? I think they forced Apple, RIM, EMC (whoever else) to pay up while they worked on this deal in the background.
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15. August 2011 @ 23:35 |
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This seems like a good move...Motorola isn't always on the cutting edge, but their phones tend to be made very well (they let HTC and Samsung make the mistakes). I am sure google is tired of having their flagship phones made by HTC; it makes them look bad when the battery dies after 4 hours. If it were not for their crummy UI overlays, they would be the best android devices on the market...and if google owns them, then those should go away.
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16. August 2011 @ 01:15 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
This seems like a good move...Motorola isn't always on the cutting edge, but their phones tend to be made very well (they let HTC and Samsung make the mistakes). I am sure google is tired of having their flagship phones made by HTC; it makes them look bad when the battery dies after 4 hours. If it were not for their crummy UI overlays, they would be the best android devices on the market...and if google owns them, then those should go away.
Not just an HTC thing, the GF's brand new Droid 3 dies within 6 hours with minimal use (I'm talking 10 texts, 1 phone call, Gmail syncing)
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16. August 2011 @ 05:16 |
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I like the smooth way Google do play safe business.
Even with the $2.5 billion break-up fee....I think the deal will go true and it will make Android OS stronger now Google holding almost 25,000 patents same as Microsoft and the double that Apple:
"Defending Android"
http://t.co/cUpCri5
On another hand:
Google could turn into a patent bully and sue its competitors for certain implementations in their operating systems that could allude to Motorola?s patents. If this indeed happens, both Apple and Microsoft should get ready to face some legal challenges over the coming years.
P.S.
Motorola Inc was split this year into two: Motorola Mobility, which got the faster-growing cellphone and TV set-top box businesses; and Motorola Solutions, which sells gear like walkie-talkies to corporate and government clients.
Live Free or Die.
The rule above all the rules is: Survive !
Capitalism: Funnel most of the $$$ to the already rich.
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16. August 2011 @ 08:43 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
This seems like a good move...Motorola isn't always on the cutting edge, but their phones tend to be made very well (they let HTC and Samsung make the mistakes). I am sure google is tired of having their flagship phones made by HTC; it makes them look bad when the battery dies after 4 hours. If it were not for their crummy UI overlays, they would be the best android devices on the market...and if google owns them, then those should go away.
The Nexus S is made by Samsung, not HTC.
only the Nexus was made by HTC.
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19. August 2011 @ 14:35 |
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Originally posted by DVDBack23:
Originally posted by oappi:
@DVDBack23
Oh thanks for clarifying that =)
It is going to be interesting to see how google buying motorola is going to affect rest of the android device manufacturers, like samsung and htc.
If you ask me buying nokia would have been wiser choise. They still have big market share, good brand, it is very cheap and has a lot of patents that would be useful against apple and ms. Not to mention kill windows phone in the process (at the moment wp has 1.6% market share, but nokia going for wp might bring it alive a bit).
No problem. In regards to your Nokia statement, while it of course would have made some sense, it would not have come cheap. Any bid for Nokia (even now) would need to be in the $25 billion range, which makes it not really worth it since Google could probably buy every patent they need for less than that :)
In terms of the bigger picture, I think Google pulled a fast one here on Apple and RIM, who just purchased Nortel's patents for $4.5 billion after Google dropped from the race. Surely, Google did not come up with this Motorola deal in weeks after being spurned? I think they forced Apple, RIM, EMC (whoever else) to pay up while they worked on this deal in the background.
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