{"id":40917,"date":"2014-01-29T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/more-on-google-selling-motorola.html"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:46:03","slug":"more-on-google-selling-motorola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/more-on-google-selling-motorola.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Google selling Motorola"},"content":{"rendered":"
Larry Page talks about the sale. Bottom line: Google either (a) mainly wanted Moto's patent portfolio (which it's keeping), and\/or (b) Google didn't want to be "all in" in the handset sales business. \u00a0Either or both makes sense, but there's a lot of folks going berserk out there about this deal.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Doug Dunfee<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Larry Page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility<\/a>
\n We\u2019ve just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. As this is an important move for Android users everywhere, I wanted to explain why in detail. We acquired Motorola in 2012 to help supercharge the A…\n <\/p>\n

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Larry Page talks about the sale. Bottom line: Google either (a) mainly wanted Moto's patent portfolio (which it's keeping), and\/or (b) Google didn't want to be "all in" in the handset sales business. \u00a0Either or both makes sense, but there's a lot of folks going berserk out there about this deal. 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