Google purchase Motorola Mobility for £7.7bn
Google said that the agreement is not the development of its Android operating system affects
Google has an agreement with mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility and tablet to take about $ 12.5 billion (7.7 billion pounds).
The company has offered about $ 40 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday.
Motorola Mobility phones only ships and Xoom tablet with Google's Android operating system. The agreement will mean that Google is now a hardware manufacturer to work closely together to develop Android, says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.
Google will also manage an impressive patent portfolio from Motorola has said Milanesi. Motorola Mobility said earlier this year that it holds about 24,500 patents.
But trade can also be tensions over other mobile phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung, which also ship Android devices to create, she said. Since the launch of Android, Google's new Android release producers, running code release code with others about six months later.
Google may risk alienating the other manufacturers, but Milanesi said: "All these suppliers have so much invested in the platform that they are likely to go."
Google may also choose to accelerate development of its Android operating system on tablet PCs, where it is slower to catch on mobile phones, Milanesi said. The next version of Android, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich," will an operating system designed for tablets and mobile devices.
Google said that the acquisition "supercharge Android ecosystem and competition in mobile computing," said a press release. Google said that the agreement will not affect how Android was developed, and will remain open operating system, Google said.
The company will Motorola Mobility, which has about 20,000 employees, operated as an independent business, Google said. The transaction is expected by the end of this year or early next year.
Motorola Mobility, which separated from the parent company in early January, consists of two groups: mobile devices, making phones, and Home, as set-top boxes and other equipment based IPTV.
Google has an agreement with mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility and tablet to take about $ 12.5 billion (7.7 billion pounds).
The company has offered about $ 40 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday.
Motorola Mobility phones only ships and Xoom tablet with Google's Android operating system. The agreement will mean that Google is now a hardware manufacturer to work closely together to develop Android, says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.
Google will also manage an impressive patent portfolio from Motorola has said Milanesi. Motorola Mobility said earlier this year that it holds about 24,500 patents.
But trade can also be tensions over other mobile phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung, which also ship Android devices to create, she said. Since the launch of Android, Google's new Android release producers, running code release code with others about six months later.
Google may risk alienating the other manufacturers, but Milanesi said: "All these suppliers have so much invested in the platform that they are likely to go."
Google may also choose to accelerate development of its Android operating system on tablet PCs, where it is slower to catch on mobile phones, Milanesi said. The next version of Android, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich," will an operating system designed for tablets and mobile devices.
Google said that the acquisition "supercharge Android ecosystem and competition in mobile computing," said a press release. Google said that the agreement will not affect how Android was developed, and will remain open operating system, Google said.
The company will Motorola Mobility, which has about 20,000 employees, operated as an independent business, Google said. The transaction is expected by the end of this year or early next year.
Motorola Mobility, which separated from the parent company in early January, consists of two groups: mobile devices, making phones, and Home, as set-top boxes and other equipment based IPTV.
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