Motorola Mobility
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company |
| founding | January 4, 2011 |
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Libertyville , Illinois , United States
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| management | Aymar de Lencquesaing (Chairman & President) |
| Number of employees | 3,485 (Q2 / 2014) |
| sales | 4,443,000,000 US dollars (2013) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | www.motorola.de |
Motorola Mobility , headquartered in Libertyville , Illinois, is an American manufacturer of cell phones . The company was in January 2011 from the split of Motorola Inc. produces. The enterprise and radio businesses were moved to Motorola Solutions , while the cell phone, modem and set-top box businesses were transferred to Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility has been part of the Lenovo Group since 2014 .
history
On May 22, 2012 , after approval from various antitrust authorities, Google completed the acquisition of Motorola Mobility announced in August 2011. Google paid $ 12.5 billion for the takeover . On the same day, Google employee Dennis Woodside replaced the previous CEO Sanjay Jha in this role.
In a patent dispute with Apple over standard-relevant patents , Motorola Mobility obtained a temporary ban on the sale of some Apple products at the Mannheim district court. At the end of February 2012, the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court suspended this online sales ban for iPhone and iPad until the appeal proceedings were decided.
On April 17, 2013, it was announced that Motorola Home , the modem and set-top box division of Motorola Mobility, had been sold to the Arris Group , based in Suwanee, Georgia , for $ 2.2 billion . Motorola Mobile remained as an independent division at Google.
In January 2014, Google announced that Motorola Mobility would be taken over by the Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo for a sales price of 2.91 billion US dollars, although most of the patent portfolio would remain with Google. The acquisition was completed in October 2014.
In January 2016, the COO of Motorola Mobility, Rick Osterloh, announced that the Motorola brand was to be abandoned and that future smartphones would be launched under the Lenovo name. The high-end model series will be called Moto and the corresponding smartphones will continue to bear the Motorola M symbol; for inexpensive devices, however, the model name Vibe should be used.
The announcement was withdrawn in June 2017
Products (selection)
Motorola RAZR XT910 smartphone
Motorola Moto G (1st Gen.)
Motorola Moto 360 Smartwatch
Moto Z
Moto G5 with the Wikipedia homepage
Photo print attachment for the Moto Z3 Play
Moto G6 with additional accessories
Moto G7 Power with the English-language Wikipedia page of the Moto G7 series
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- Fitness tracker MotoACTV
- Smartwatch Motorola Moto 360 and Motorola Moto 360 (2015) (Android Wear watches)
- Cell phones (cell phones, smartphones)
- See also: List of Motorola Cell Phones
Web links
- Motorola Mobility Official Website
Individual evidence
- ^ Google Financial Tables. Retrieved August 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Google Financial Tables 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2014 .
- ↑ We've acquired Motorola Mobility. googleblog.blogspot.de, May 22, 2012, accessed on May 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Robin Wauters: Breaking: Google Buys 'Android Partner' Motorola For $ 12.5 Billion. TechCrunch , August 15, 2011, accessed August 15, 2011 .
- ↑ Selling ban against Apple not enforceable for the time being. In: Golem.de. February 27, 2012, accessed August 3, 2014 .
- ↑ motorola.com: ARRIS Acquires Motorola Home: Creates Premier Video Delivery and Broadband Technology Company
- ↑ www.heise.de: Google confirms: Lenovo is buying Motorola
- ↑ Approved: Motorola is now part of Lenovo. In: derStandard.at. October 30, 2014, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.teltarif.de/motorola-lenovo-marke-verschwindet/news/62379.html
- ↑ https://www.notebookcheck.com/Lenovo-Motorola-Marke-feiert-sein-Comeback-Moto-by-Lenovo-ist-tot.225180.0.html