Google Sells Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 Billion

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, January 29, 2014



Google announced that they are selling Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, seemingly marking the end of their partnership that began 19 months ago. In August 2011, Google purchased Motorola for a cool $12.5 billion, buying not only its mobile business, but eighty years worth of patents and innovation. The patents were the attraction for Google, who needed to bolster its portfolio in the seemingly unending patent wars. And while claiming those patents as theirs, they allowed Motorola's mobile device business to function as an independent entity, with some touches from Google of course. We... more





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