Posts Tagged ‘Motorola’

China Finally Allows Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

May 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following grants from the EU and US, China now also approved the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google. With this final approval in the pocket, Google can proceed with its plans to acquire Motorola Mobility for its IP and probably put the rest of Motorola Mobility back on sale ;-).

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Samsung Preparing for a Mobile Acquisition!?

May 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Samsung is planning to take over a mobile company. Though it is unknown which company Samsung is to acquire, it won’t be RIM. Or at least that’s what Samsung’s mobile president J.K. Shin said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

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Google to Sell Motorola to Huawei!?

April 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to the Wallstreet Journal, Google is looking to sell its newly purchased Motorola Mobility unit to Huawei. Though Google is set on keeping Motorola’s patents in-house, it will bring Huawei a name the world can pronounce.

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Motorola to Develop Android on DECT Phones

April 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

We have seen many Motorola DECT phones on the market. Most of them have been made under license of Motorola resulting in poor build quality. According to the latest FCC filings, this is about to change.

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MWC: Intel Expands Smartphone Portfolio

February 27th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Intel has announced new deals with vendors to develop smartphones and tablets based on Intel’s new System on a Chip line. Amongst them are operator Orange and paymentcompany Visa.

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Motorola Purchase by Google on the Verge of Approval

February 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Some months ago, Google announced its intentions to purchase Motorola. At that time, US and European authorities still needed to give approval for the takeover. If all goes right, Google should be getting some good news along the coming week as it will be allowed to spend its 12.500.000.000 on the acquisition.

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250K Motorola Xoom’s Sold

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Motorola is doing well. The company managed to generate 22% more revenues compared to the first quarter of 2010. The company also announced it has sold a quarter of a million Xoom tablets.

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Motorola Expects to sell 800K Million Xooms in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Motorola expects to ship 700K~800K Xoom devices to retailers in the first quarter of 2011. Motorola will be selling the device from March onward.

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Motorola Atrix Blurs the Line Between Smartphone and Tablet

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Next to the Xoom, Motorola had another surprise in mind for the press. The company also unveiled the Motorola Atrix 4G, a smartphone with tablet capabilities.

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Motorola Unveils the Xoom Tablet

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Motorola has finally unveiled their new Xoom tablet during the CES. The Xoom runs on Android 3.0 Honeycomb and has a Nvidia Tegra-2 1Ghz processor on board combined with 1 GB DDR2 memory.

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