{"id":5663,"date":"2014-01-31T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:50:18","slug":"lenovo-buys-motorola-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/lenovo-buys-motorola-from-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo buys Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A news that shocked the people you are about to hear is about Google sold Motorola\u2019s mobile division to Lenovo for <strong>just about $2.91 billion<\/strong>. A better chance for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Lenovo Official Website | For Those Who Do\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lenovo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lenovo<\/a>, now, to compete other big smartphones company in U.S. and other giant parts of the World. Lenovo wasn\u2019t so into the smartphone thing until now when they decide to show off what they have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5664\" title=\"Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company\" alt=\"Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5664\" title=\"Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company\" alt=\"Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motorola-a-Lenovo-Company.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for Google, a <strong>great deal of loss<\/strong> in less than 3 years they sold of Motorola for a sum of nothing. Back in August 2011. Google paid <strong>12.6 billion for the smartphones and tablets of Motorola devices<\/strong> but in the end it was just a smart move played by Google in order to have more patents than to sell of devices. The deal is said to include whole mobile division and some <strong>10,000 of its patents from a total of 17,000<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>Google CEO Larry Page<\/em>\u00a0confirmed the sale through his blog post. Find the link to post below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Googorola.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5665\" title=\"motorola-google\" alt=\"motorola-google\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Googorola.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5665\" title=\"motorola-google\" alt=\"motorola-google\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Googorola.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The deals goes out like. Lenovo will pay a <strong>cold cash of $660 million<\/strong> followed by $750 million in stock and the rest of $1.5 billion will be paid off in the upcoming three years. When Google purchased Motorola in 2011, it said it would \u201csupercharge the Android ecosystem\u201d. But recently the mobile division went in a big loss of some $250 million the 4<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> quarter of 2013. So well, best of Luck to Lenovo and let\u2019s see what they kick off with as they have got Motorola in their hands now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility | Google Official Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/lenovo-to-acquire-motorola-mobility.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Official Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news that shocked the people you are about to hear is about Google sold Motorola\u2019s mobile division to Lenovo for just about $2.91 billion. A better chance for Lenovo, now, to compete other big smartphones company in U.S. and other giant parts of the World. Lenovo wasn\u2019t so into the smartphone thing until now when they decide to show off what they have. But for Google, a great deal of loss in less than 3 years they sold of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[215,491,17],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lenovo buys Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion - TheNerdMag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google is going to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo as confirmed by their official blog post. 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