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Lifer
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Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to buy smartphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its biggest deal, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business.
Motorola shareholders will get $40 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement today. That’s 63 percent more than Motorola Mobility’s closing price on the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 12. Both boards have approved the takeover.
Larry Page, Google’s co-founder who took over as chief executive officer in April, is transforming Google into a smartphone maker to take on Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and gain more clout in the wireless business. Motorola Mobility, under pressure to seek strategic changes by activist investor Carl Icahn, gives Google more than 17,000 patents the company can leverage in negotiations with competitors such as Apple.



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Schadenfroh

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Time to watch Google block the importation of Apple and Microsoft devices via the courts or pay Google a licencing fee for each iPhone or Windows Phone sold.

What goes around, comes around, shitheads.
 
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LookBehindYou

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Schadenfroh said:
Time to watch Google block the importation of Apple and Microsoft devices via the courts or pay Google a licencing fee for each iPhone or Windows Phone sold.

What goes around, comes around, shitheads.
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How would they manage that? Not sure what Motorolla has that would cause Google to be able to do that.
 
arcenite

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TheSlamma said:
I have never encountered a Motorola phone I liked.
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This is how I thought about it at first too. But, Google doesn't want Motorola for the phones they currently make. They want Motorola for the facilities and processes to make new phones. :cool:
 
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Gigantopithecus

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Schadenfroh said:
Time to watch Google block the importation of Apple and Microsoft devices via the courts or pay Google a licencing fee for each iPhone or Windows Phone sold.

What goes around, comes around, shitheads.
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No doubt. I wonder where the rage is at Apple's business practices. I was too young to fully grasp what Microsoft was doing in the 90s, but from what I've read, Apple's current business practices are just as odious, yet not many people hate on Apple like they hated on Microsoft.
 
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arcenite said:
This is how I thought about it at first too. But, Google doesn't want Motorola for the phones they currently make. They want Motorola for the facilities and processes to make new phones. :cool:
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And when Google buys a Steve Jobs clone, they'll be able to innovate instead of copying Apple for the next 20 years.
 
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NetWareHead

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Informative article: Is Google buying Motorola for its 24,000 patents?
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/15/is-google-buying-motorola-for-its-17000-patents/?cnn=yes

Little excerpts:
"With one $12.5B deal it gets two weapons: a manufacturing arm and a rich IP portfolio"

"particular strength in 2G and 3G essential, non-essential patents important to the delivery of competitive products in the marketplace, video particularly compression, decompression and security technologies and finally, a leading position in 4G LTE essential"

"Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google's patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies"

"The Wall Street Journal noted Monday that shares of Interdigital (IDCC), which had soared on rumors that Google might be bidding for its patents, are down 20% in pre-market trading. If Google gets Motorola, why would it need Interdigital?"
 
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