Please what? Some messages it is believed to have read. My colleague Jörg already suspected that anonymous could put behind it. But at least it is now on the official Google blog and at Businesswire, and the messages appear to be genuine: Google takes over the US equipment manufacturer Motorola mobility for approximately $ 12.5 billion in ($40 per share). This corresponds to a premium amounting to 63 percent compared to the price of shares at the close on Friday. The blog post, this is Google's CEO Larry page itself. He founded the acquisition with a better booth for the own patent catalog to the hostility from Microsoft, Apple and others.
So that the shareholders have also something like this, page writes: "Together we will create a great user experience, that is firing the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of customers, partners and developers." He had to say that, even if I doubt so. It goes on to say: Google will Motorola as a separate business operate, Motorola should continue to be Android's license partner and Android will remain open to other providers and developers of course.
Better stand against patent anfeindungen, but also more than that?
The search engine giant buys a hardware partner for end users for the first time and has the opportunity to offer tablets and Smartphones from his own hand. Also to Motorola's video solutions it going in, possibly, to spice up the software for Google TV. Existing hardware, which officially sold under the brand name Google as the nexus of S or the Google Chromebook, come from Samsung. The Smartphone market leader may have been too expensive for the Californians, as well as Nokia, in which Google was rumored to at least in negotiations on an Android-partnership, before Microsoft cooperated in great style with the Finns. The question remains: the purchase is a good deal? I'm as skeptical.
At least in the United States, Motorola has more market share than Sony-Ericsson. In Europe the provider plays a similar small role in Smartphones such as HP or the system Windows phone of 7. Motorola's latest battleship in the Smartphones is the Atrix in the tablets very solid devices in its class, but yet only one one the Xoom, which at the time are both first with Android 3.0. of 20 more or less equally strong models of competition. Motorola had the market power of Samsung, LG, Apple and HTC recently to put little. Google takes a bucket so and will have to invest much, to make a competitive sports car from it again.
If it is the target. Because it is quite credible, what page says: that it with the purchase of the comparatively insignificant new competitor in the first place comes to better protect the own patents. Motorola mobility holds 14,600 patents at the time, further 6.700 patents were filed, writes the company on its website. And it comes more clearly to take the early. Page clearly identifies Apple and Microsoft as a competitor, which would launch attacks on Google, writes page. Google Motorola in the patent dispute with Microsoft was aided only on weekends. Motorola was split at the beginning of the year in the two business units mobility and solutions. Motorola solutions remains unaffected by the acquisition.
(Jürgen frequent, image: Motorola)Tweet please what? Some messages it is believed to have read. My colleague Jörg already suspected that anonymous could put behind it. But at least it is now on the official Google blog and at Businesswire, and the messages appear to be genuine: Google takes over the US equipment manufacturer Motorola mobility for approximately $ 12.5 billion ($40 per...)
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