• Google acquired Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion to enhance mobile computing competitiveness

    Posted on August 16th, 2011 David Brooks No comments

    The news of the combination of the two companies – Google and Motorola Mobility Holdings has been confirmed. Google acquired Motorola Mobility Holdings on Monday for a total $12.5 billion, $40.00 per share in cash. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility would definitely enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and enhance mobile computing competitiveness of Google.

    Google buys Motorola Mobility

    Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.

    Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said, “This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world. We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the Android platform, and now through this combination we will be able to do even more to innovate and deliver outstanding mobility solutions across our mobile devices and home businesses.

    Google’s Android software is widely used by Motorola and several other mobile device-makers like HTC, LG, etc. and there have been quite many popular smartphones and devices based on the Android OS, like Motorola Xoom, Motorola Droid Bionic, Motorola Droid X, etc. Along with the excellent mobile phone and Android OS performance, smart mobile phone users could make full use of these smart phones: freely surf on the internet, record HD videos for sharing, rip DVD to Android OS phones to watch HD DVD movies on Android phones, rip Blu-ray to Motorola Xoom to watch HD Blu-ray on Xoom in HD video playback, etc.

    Motorola Droid Bionic

    Along with the acquisition, there are many advantages for both Google and Motorola Mobility: Google itself has not been a device-maker before now, but this deal, the biggest acquisition for Google to date, marks that Google would take its place among a select group of companies that make both hardware and software for hand-held computing gadgets. What’s more, another strategic advantage of this acquisition is the access to more than 17,000 patents held by Motorola for Google, which would help Google stave off a barrage of claims levied by rivals battling the company’s Android mobile operating system. And due to the excellent performance of Motorola Mobility in set-top boxes for cable TV, this acquisition would also boost Google’s faltering efforts in Internet-connected TVs.

    Google’s biggest buys

    Motorola Mobility Holdings, $12.5 billion, announced August 2011

    DoubleClick, $3.1 billion, Internet display advertising, closed March 2008

    YouTube, $1.65 billion, Internet video, closed November 2006

    AdMob, $750 million, mobile advertising, closed May 2010

    ITA Software, $700 million, travel search software, closed April 2011

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