Digital two-day business world is digemparkan this news: Internet giant, Google Inc.., Buy Motorola Mobility worth U.S. $ 12.5 billion on Monday, August 15, 2011. The move was none other than to satisfy their ambition to win the competition the smart phone business, after success with Android programs in a number of product partners.
Financial Times, the deal makes Google have direct access to more than 17 thousand patents held by Motorola and 7,500 other patents that are still in the process. This is a great asset for Google to struggling with Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and others in the face of legal disputes related to control of copyright in computer technology and communications.
Larry Page, Google co-founder, is optimistic that a deal with Motorola Mobility will provide a super power for the development of Android. Google's software creations are a mainstay number of products renowned smart phone that competes with Apple Inc. and RIM, namely Samsung, HTC, LG and others.
With this latest deal, Google now has a powerful weapon to enter the smart phone market. According to BBC news stations, the contract was made Mobilty Motorola's stock price on Wall Street on Monday afternoon local time, soared 56 percent to U.S. $ 38.13 per share. But Google's stock price actually fell 1.8 percent.
100 companies
Before annexed Motorola Mobility, Mashable notes, Google has bought at least 100 companies in the past 10 years. Some of them are start-up company, which already has its own community.
In addition, Google also bought a number of enterprise applications and software maker, which allows Google to dominate the field of information technology.
Here are 10 companies purchasing Google's most expensive ever undertaken, quoting from Mashable notes:
1. Motorola Mobility : U.S. $ 12.5 billion
2. DoubleClick : U.S. $ 3.1 billion
3. YouTube : U.S. $ 1.65 billion
4. AdMob : U.S. $ 750 million
5. ITA Software : U.S. $ 700 million
6. Postini : U.S. $ 625 million
7. Admeld : U.S. $ 400 million
8. Slide.com : U.S. $ 182 million
9. On2 Technologies : U.S. $ 133 million
10. dMarc Broadcasting : U.S. $ 102 million
Purchase of Motorola is the latest and most expensive acquisition does Google. Before annexed, Motorola is only one of 39 company mobile phone makers who use Google's Android operating system.
Google is expected to increasingly compete with Apple, which currently dominate the mobile phone market with its iPhone. Although the iPhone rule the mobile market, the Android recorded still control the market in mobile phone operating system.
Google is expected to increasingly compete with Apple, which currently dominate the mobile phone market with its iPhone. Although the iPhone rule the mobile market, the Android recorded still control the market in mobile phone operating system.
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