Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Google Inc. said yesterday that it will pay $ 12.5 billion for the mobile phone manufacturer Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, the largest acquisition in the history of Internet search giant, and one designed to make it a more formidable competitor to Apple Inc. and its iPhone.


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As a result, said chief executive Google, Larry Page, will be more and more smartphones for consumers. Google, which produces popular software for Android for smartphones and tablet PCs will be able to make their hardware as soon as he owns a Motorola, which manufactures computers and smartphones Droid Xoom pills.

"Together we can create an amazing user experience,''wrote on the blog page of the company.

The acquisition is a strategic goal as well: to protect the Google Android and its software for smartphones and tablet against many costly lawsuits filed by the patent to its competitors. Motorola holds thousands of patents, which now belongs to Google, giving the search giant's strengths in court. Android products "under threat from some companies that want to use patents to compete,''said David Drummond, chief legal officer of Google.

Google expects the transaction to be completed by late 2011 or early 2012, after considering the U.S. antitrust authorities, the European Union and other countries.

Motorola Inc, founded in 1928 in Chicago, developed the first commercial operation in the world of mobile phones in 1983. Motorola Mobility, his mobile phone, was isolated as a separate company in January.

Android started as a product of Silicon Valley start-up company with a software development facility in Cambridge. The company was bought by Google in 2005, and the software has become the most popular platform in the world for mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. Every major U.S. carrier and 231 wireless service providers around the world to sell Android devices.

As a result, sales of Android devices far exceed those for the iPhone and iPad, which work IOS Software Apple.

Page said yesterday that more than 150 million Android-phones and tablets have been activated, with 550,000 online every day.

Research firm Gartner Inc. estimates Android has a 38.5 per cent of the world market of software for mobile devices, compared with 19.4 percent for the IOS from Apple, and next year the market share of Android will reach nearly 50 percent.

Google a great advantage for the transaction may be getting the Motorola portfolio of technology patents. Google is under intense attack from rivals who say, Android violates some of its key patents. Last week a German court ordered the Samsung Group in South Korea to stop selling Android-based computers Galaxy Tab tablets in most countries of the European Union, after, Apple, Google said the software violated some of its patents.

Other claims against the Android, including last year filed a giant database company Oracle Corp, are under consideration. One small company Boston, Skyhook Inc, filed suit, claiming that navigation technology Android, violated several of its patents.