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Motorola was founded in Chicago, Illinois, as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (at 847 West Harrison Street) [9] in 1928.. Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's new car radio, and created the name "Motorola" by linking "motor" (from motor car) with "ola" (from Victrola), which was also a popular ending for many companies at the time, e.g. Moviola, Crayola. [10]
On August 15, 2011, American technology company Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, pending regulatory approval. [13] [14] [15] Critics viewed Google as being a white knight, since Motorola Mobility had recently had a fifth straight quarter of losses. [16]
As a part of this deal, Google acquired a 15.7% stake in Arris Group valued at $300 million. [346] [347] On January 29, 2014, Google announced that it would divest Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, a fraction of the original $12.5 billion price paid by Google to acquire the company. Google retained all but 2000 of Motorola's ...
Web giant Google (NAS: GOOG) this morning announced a $12.5 billion agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility (NYS: MMI) , a move seen as both an effort to pile up intellectual property at a time ...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) dumped the part of Motorola Mobility it did not want when it bought the company. Motorola's cable set-top business may still make money, but the older boxes have been ...
In November 2021, the company acquired Envysion, a provider of enterprise video security and business analytics for quick-service restaurant and retail industries. [37] In December 2021, Motorola Solutions acquired 911 Datamaster, Inc., a Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) data solutions provider.
Surprise, surprise. It looks like Google (NAS: GOOG) already favored Motorola Mobility (NYS: MMI) for its Android smartphones, even before it acquired the entire company. Several rather ...
December 2014 – UNICOM Global acquires IBM Rational Focal Point and IBM Rational Purify Plus. [226] January 2015 – IBM sells Algorithmics Collateral to SmartStream Technologies [227] December 2015 – UNICOM Global acquires IBM Rational System Architect [228] December 2018 – HCL Technologies to acquire Select IBM Software Products for $1 ...