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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 14, 2012
Google this evening confirmed in an SEC filing that it plans to cut some 4,000 employees from the recent acquisition of Motorola -- about a fifth of the company's workforce. And it's going t...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2012
Google CEO Larry Page this morning penned a blog post announcing the close of his company's acquisition of Motorola Mobility (thanks to China's recent approval) -- and the departure of Sanja...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 13, 2012
The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, just hours after the deal was approved by the European Commission.
The key phrasing from the...
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by Chris Umiastowski
Feb 10, 2012
Multiple reports this week have said that Google will get regulatory approval on its intended acquisition of Motorola Mobility as soon as next week. If this happens as expected, the acquisition ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 06, 2012
It's bad enough that when Kayak.com announced it was dropping support for its BlackBerry app that it said it was a "practical decision." That's gotta sting, right? (Even if it'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2012
Motorola Mobility just sent out some updated guidance on its fourth-quarter 2010 earnings, and it's not sounding great. The company's estimating $3.4 billion in sales with "modest profi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Not that we ever really expected otherwise, but the shareholders of Motorola Mobility today approved the company's merger with Google. Motorola says 99 percent of the votes were in favor of the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 27, 2011
Motorola Mobility just announced its third-quarter 2011 earnings, dropping word that it shipped 4.8 million smartphones for the three months ending Sept. 30. It also said it shipped 100,000 Xoom Hon...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 14, 2011
Motorola this morning announced a special meeting Nov. 17 to vote on the merger agreement with Google -- that little deal announced in August. Maybe you heard of it. Stockholders have to be on the b...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Carriers, manufacturers who play nice get 'non-contractual time to market advantage'Can't say this surprises us much. Think back to mid-May, when This is my Next's Nilay Patel did a bang-up job explai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 15, 2011
Google's purchase of Motorola - a Q&A Motorola won't have exclusive on Nexus devices, Andy Rubin says OEM partners supportive of Motorola Mobility acquisition, praise Google's defens...
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by Android Central
Aug 15, 2011
Like the rest of the blogosphere, we were rubbing our eyes and drinking our morning coffee when Google announced their planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Now that the furor has died down...
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by Android Central
Aug 15, 2011
Didn't think we'd wait till Thursday to talk about this one, did you? Coming up at 4 p.m. EST / 1 p.m. PST, we're going to do a deep dive into this morning's shocker -- that Google's buying Moto...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 15, 2011
So what does Google's acquisition of Motorola for $12.5 billion mean for Android's Nexus program? (For those new to the platform, that's Google's yearly "Pure Google" phone -- basically...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 15, 2011
Google hit us with a bombshell this morning when they announced that they would be acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars. Despite Google's insistence that Motorola will remain a licens...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 15, 2011
Here's one to watch today, folks. Shares of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) were up more than 50 percent at the start of trading Monday on the news that Google was acquiring it for $40 per ...
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by Richard Devine
Aug 15, 2011
Big news from the Googleplex this morning, as the news broke that Google is to acquire Motorola's handset business for $12.5 billion. This is HUGE news, as now Google will finally become a smartphone ...
