Google to buy Motorola Mobility in 12.5 Billion Dollars. Deal will be completed by late 2011 or in early 2012. Deal will be approved by government.
Before Google have been letting other companies to manufacture handsets with their Android platform. Now also Google’s Android platform will remain open source and available for other companies to continue manufacturing Android handsets.
Google is now more like Apple who will have its own software manufactured smartphones.
Google have adopted this strategy because of the competition with Microsoft and Apple.
Motorola and Motorola mobility are two parts of same company. Where Motorola mobility focus is phones and telecommunication. Motorola Mobility was already manufacturing Android handsets. Motorola will help Google in Android smartphones, Google TV and other products.
Other Android handset manufacturers are welcoming this deal between Google and Motorola. And they are calling it a defense against Microsoft and Apple.
“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”
– J.K. Shin
President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division
“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Bert Nordberg
President & CEO, Sony Ericsson
“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.”
– Peter Chou
CEO, HTC Corp.
“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D
President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company
About Motorola: Motorola from America. Motorola Mobility products categories are Mobile phones, including smartphones, mobile computing devices and tablets. Motorola Mobility company is part of Motorola company but focused on phones.
About Google: Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Owns Android smartphones software.
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