Google is selling off its Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, marking an end of its direct handset business. The deal costing close to US$ 3 billion will give Lenovo a massive boost especially in the US market. Lenovo will be paying Google US$660 million in cash, US$750 million in stock and the remaining in 3 years instalment. Not all is gone for Google as they will be retaining most of Motorola’s valued patents with about 2,000 patents to be acquired by Lenovo.
Under Google’s ownership, Motorola has released the customisable Moto X and the cheap and cheerful Moto G. While it appears to be a good start for Motorola, they are still losing money.
Lenovo has been on an acquisition spree lately. A while back, the Chinese brand has taken over IBM’s Thinkpads and most recently they have acquired their server business as well. In terms of smart phones, they are doing rather well and in Malaysia, they are seen to be aggressively pushing a range of entry to mid level smart phones since mid 2013. Now with the acquisition of Motorola, they have their eyes set to be among the Top 3 smart phone manufacturers.
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