• Google Buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

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    Published on 08-15-2011 07:37 PM    
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    Google announced Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.

    Motorola is one of 39 manufacturers of handsets that use Google’s Android operating system.

    Buying a hardware company is an unusual move for Google. The acquisition, Google said in a statement, “will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem.”

    Google CEO Larry Page expanded on what that might mean in a blog post. In addition to citing Motorola’s home devices and video solutions business, Page references recent patent wars that Google believes to be anti-competitive.

    “The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to ‘protect competition and innovation in the open source software community’ and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction,” Page writes. “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.”

    Android will continue to be an open platform, and Motorola will continue to be run as a separate business,
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    1. IdolEyes787's Avatar
      IdolEyes787 - 08-15-2011, 07:44 PM
      On a related topic I hear more than half the World goes to bed hungry.
    1. stlcardinal9's Avatar
      stlcardinal9 - 08-15-2011, 10:14 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      On a related topic I hear more than half the World goes to bed hungry.

      Well I guess they should eat before they go to bed...
    1. IdolEyes787's Avatar
      IdolEyes787 - 08-15-2011, 10:16 PM
      Hahahaha. The child that just starved to death in Sudan wanted me to tell you that was funny.
    1. OpenNet's Avatar
      OpenNet - 08-16-2011, 12:11 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      On a related topic I hear more than half the World goes to bed hungry.
      What does this have to do with anything? Should we all stop living our lifes and be sad about people starving? Does that make a difference? No, it doesn't. If you wanna feed the hungry, how about you donate all your belongings to charity? Since you seem to be such a good human being...


      @News:
      Good move by Google imho. Also Motorola might start making decent phones
    1. mr. nails's Avatar
      mr. nails - 08-16-2011, 04:56 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      I hear more than half the World goes to bed hungry.
      Quote Originally Posted by stlcardinal9 View Post
      Well I guess they should eat before they go to bed...
      Touché

      Also, I tried sending a voice text message on my google phone and it only knows zero's. I wanted it to say 'billion', but apparently it's only smart enough to know exact numbers.

      Having that many numbers on the screen kinda made it hard to read. : /

      ps. we're 6 out now

      GO CARDS!
    1. IdolEyes787's Avatar
      IdolEyes787 - 08-16-2011, 12:57 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by OpenNet View Post
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      On a related topic I hear more than half the World goes to bed hungry.
      What does this have to do with anything?
      Maybe nothing ,maybe everything .Likely conclusion is that you're a bit of a tool though.
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      OpenNet - 08-16-2011, 03:14 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      Quote Originally Posted by OpenNet View Post

      What does this have to do with anything?
      Maybe nothing ,maybe everything .Likely conclusion is that you're a bit of a tool though.
      Why do you keep posting? Shouldn't you be out feeding the hungry?
    1. bobbintb's Avatar
      bobbintb - 08-16-2011, 03:24 PM
      so how is motorola mobility different than motorola?
    1. mjmacky's Avatar
      mjmacky - 08-16-2011, 04:36 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      On a related topic I hear more than half the World goes to bed hungry.
      In order to avoid adding to the statistics, I try to feed myself regularly. Just doing my part
    1. IdolEyes787's Avatar
      IdolEyes787 - 08-16-2011, 04:41 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by OpenNet View Post
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post

      Maybe nothing ,maybe everything .Likely conclusion is that you're a bit of a tool though.
      Why do you keep posting? Shouldn't you be out feeding the hungry?
      I'm too busy working in an industry that is for all intents and purposes totally useless. I'm thinking of quitting though and becoming either a stock broker or a real estate agent so that at the end of the day I know my sweat has at least accomplished something worthwhile.
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      mjmacky - 08-16-2011, 04:48 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
      or a real estate agent so that at the end of the day I know my sweat has at least accomplished something worthwhile.
      I don't know how you live on if real estate becomes an aspiration.
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