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Motorola

February 05, 2023

This article is about the original company prior to its split in 2011. For the present-day companies of this name, see Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. For other uses, see Motorola (disambiguation).

Motorola, Inc. (/ˌmoʊtəˈroʊlə/[4]) was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011.[5] Motorola Solutions is the legal successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.[6] Motorola Mobility was acquired by Lenovo in 2014.

Motorola, Inc.
TypePublic
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedSeptember 25, 1928; 94 years ago (1928-09-25)
FounderPaul Galvin 
DefunctJanuary 4, 2011
FateSplit into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions
SuccessorMotorola Mobility
Motorola Solutions
Freescale Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor
Arris Group (General Instrument)
Cambium Networks
Headquarters500 W Monroe Ste 4400,[1] Chicago, Illinois, United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsTablet computers
Mobile phones
Smartphones
Two-way radios
Networking systems
Cable television systems
Wireless broadband networks
RFID systems
Mobile telephone infrastructure
Total assets
  • US$11.851 billion (2013)[2]
  • US$12.679 billion (2012)[2]
Number of employees
53,000 (2010)[3]
DivisionsMobile Phone Devices
Connected Home Solutions
Network Home Solutions

Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and, public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra. These businesses (except for set-top boxes and cable modems) are now part of Motorola Solutions. Google sold Motorola Home (the former General Instrument cable businesses) to the Arris Group in December 2012 for US$2.35 billion.[7]

Motorola's wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones. Also known as the Personal Communication Sector (PCS) prior to 2004, it pioneered the "mobile phone" with DynaTAC, "flip phone" with the MicroTAC as well as the "clam phone" with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s. It had staged a resurgence by the mid-2000s with the RAZR, but lost market share in the second half of that decade. Later it focused on smartphones using Google's open-source Android mobile operating system. The first phone to use the newest version of Google's open source OS, Android 2.0, was released on November 2, 2009, as the Motorola Droid (the GSM version launched a month later, in Europe, as the Motorola Milestone).

The handset division (along with cable set-top boxes and cable modems) was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility. On May 22, 2012, Google CEO Larry Page announced that Google had closed on its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility.[8] On January 29, 2014, Google CEO Larry Page announced that pending closure of the deal, Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments).[9] On October 30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google.[10]

History

 
Local branch in Glostrup, Denmark.

Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois, as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (at 847 West Harrison Street)[11] in 1928.

Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's new car radio, and created the name “Motorola” by linking "motor" (for motorcar) with "ola" (from Victrola), which was also a popular ending for many companies at the time, e.g. Moviola, Crayola.[12] The company sold its first Motorola branded radio on June 23, 1930, to H.C. Wall of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for $30.[13] The Motorola brand name became so well known that Galvin Manufacturing Corporation later changed its name to Motorola, Inc.[14][15]

Galvin Manufacturing Corporation began selling Motorola car-radio receivers to police departments and municipalities in November 1930. The company's first public safety customers (all in the U.S. state of Illinois) included the Village of River Forest, Village of Bellwood Police Department, City of Evanston Police, Illinois State Highway Police, and Cook County (Chicago area) Police.[16]

Many of Motorola's products have been radio-related, starting with a battery eliminator for radios, through the first hand-held walkie-talkie in the world in 1940,[17] defense electronics, cellular infrastructure equipment, and mobile phone manufacturing. In the same year, the company built its research and development program with Dan Noble, a pioneer in FM radio and semiconductor technologies, who joined the company as director of research. The company produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio during World War II, which was vital to Allied communication. Motorola ranked 94th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[18]

Motorola went public in 1943,[19] and became Motorola, Inc. in 1947. At that time Motorola's main business was producing and selling televisions and radios.

Post World War II

 
Motorola vacuum tube carton

The last plant was listed in Quincy, Illinois at 1400 North 30th Street where 1,200 employees made radio assemblies for both home and automobile.[20]

In 1969, Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the Moon on a Motorola transceiver.[21]

In 1973, Motorola demonstrated the first hand-held portable telephone.[22]

In 1974, Motorola introduced its first microprocessor, the 8-bit MC6800, used in automotive, computing and video game applications.[23] That same year, Motorola sold its television business to the Japan-based Matsushita – the parent company of Panasonic.

In 1980, Motorola's next generation 32-bit microprocessor, the MC68000, led the wave of technologies that spurred the computing revolution in 1984, powering devices from companies such as Apple, Commodore, Atari, Sun, and Hewlett Packard.[24]

 
Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first private handheld mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007.

In September 1983, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the DynaTAC 8000X telephone, the world's first commercial cellular device. By 1998, cellphones accounted for two thirds of Motorola's gross revenue.[25]

In 1996, Motorola released the Motorola StarMax, which was a Macintosh clone that was licensed by Apple and it came with System 7. However, with the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, Apple released Mac OS 8. Because the clone makers' licenses were valid only for Apple's System 7 operating system, Apple's release of Mac OS 8 left the clone manufacturers without the ability to ship a current Mac OS version without negotiation with Apple.[26] A heated telephone conversation between Jobs and Motorola CEO Christopher Galvin resulted in the termination of Motorola's clone contract, the discontinuation of the Motorola StarMax, and the long-favored Apple being demoted to "just another customer" mainly for PowerPC CPUs. Apple (and Jobs) didn't want Motorola to limit the PowerPC CPU supply so as retaliation, Apple and IBM expelled Motorola from the AIM alliance and forced Motorola to stop producing any PowerPC CPUs, leaving IBM to make all future PowerPC CPUs. However, Motorola was later reinstated into the alliance in 1998.[27]

In 1998, Motorola was overtaken by Nokia as the world's biggest seller of mobile phone handsets.[21]

In 1999, Motorola separated a portion of its semiconductor business—the Semiconductor Components Group (SCG)-- and formed ON Semiconductor, whose headquarters are located in Phoenix, Arizona.[28]

After 2000

In June 2000, Motorola and Cisco supplied the world's first commercial GPRS cellular network to BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom. The world's first GPRS cell phone was also developed by Motorola. In August 2000, with recent acquisitions, Motorola reached its peak employment of 150,000 employees worldwide.[29] Two years later, employment would be at 93,000 due to layoffs and spinoffs.

In June 2005, Motorola overtook the intellectual property of Sendo for $30,000 and paid £362,575 for the plant, machinery and equipment.[30]

In June 2006, Motorola acquired the software platform (AJAR) developed by the British company TTP Communications plc.[31] Later in 2006, the firm announced a music subscription service named iRadio. The technology came after a break in a partnership with Apple Computer (which in 2005 had produced an iTunes compatible cell phone ROKR E1, and most recently, mid-2007, its own iPhone). iRadio has many similarities with existing satellite radio services (such as Sirius and XM Radio) by offering live streams of commercial-free music content. Unlike satellite services, however, iRadio content will be downloaded via a broadband internet connection. As of 2008, iRadio has not been commercially released and no further information is available.[32]

Motorola, post-split

On August 15, 2011, Google announced that it would purchase Motorola Mobility for about $12.5 billion.[33] On November 17, 2011, Motorola Mobility stockholders “voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposed merger with Google Inc”.[34]

On May 22, 2012, Google announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. had closed, with Google acquiring MMI for $40.00 per share in cash. ($12.5 billion)[35]

On October 30, 2014, Google sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo. The purchase price was approximately US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments), including US$1.41 billion paid at close: US $660 million in cash and US$750 million in Lenovo ordinary shares (subject to a share cap/floor). The remaining US$1.5 billion was paid in the form of a three-year promissory note.

After the purchase, Google maintained ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, including current patent applications and invention disclosures, while Lenovo received a license to the portfolio of patents and other intellectual property. Additionally Lenovo received over 2,000 patent assets, as well as the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark portfolio.[9]

Divisional Products:[36]

  • Enterprise Mobility Solutions: Headquarters located in Schaumburg, Illinois; comprises communications offered to government and public safety sectors and enterprise mobility business. Motorola develops analog and digital two-way radio, voice and data communications products and systems, mobile computing, advanced data capture, wireless infrastructure and RFID solutions to customers worldwide.
  • Home & Networks Mobility: Headquarters located in Arlington Heights, Illinois; produces end-to-end systems that facilitate uninterrupted access to digital entertainment, information and communications services via wired and wireless mediums. Motorola develops digital video system solutions, interactive set-top devices, voice and data modems for digital subscriber line and cable networks, broadband access systems for cable and satellite television operators, and also wireline carriers and wireless service providers.
  • Mobile Devices: Headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois; designs wireless handsets, but also licenses much of its intellectual properties. This includes cellular and wireless systems and as well as integrated applications and Bluetooth accessories. Some of their latest gadgets are Moto X Gen 3, Moto X Play, Moto 360 smartwatch, etc.

Finances

Motorola's handset division recorded a loss of $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007, while the company as a whole earned $100 million during that quarter.[37] It lost several key executives to rivals,[38] and the website TrustedReviews called the company's products repetitive and un-innovative.[39] Motorola laid off 3,500 workers in January 2008,[40] followed by a further 4,000 job cuts in June[41] and another 20% cut of its research division a few days later.[42] In July 2008, a large number of executives left Motorola to work on Apple Inc.'s iPhone.[43] The company's handset division was also put on offer for sale.[44] Also that month, analyst Mark McKechnie from American Technology Research said that Motorola "would be lucky to fetch $500 million" for selling its handset business. Analyst Richard Windsor said that Motorola might have to pay someone to take the division off the company's hands , and that Motorola may even exit the handset market altogether.[45] Its global market share has been on the decline; from 18.4% of the market in 2007 the company had a share of just 6.0% by Q1 2009, but at last, Motorola scored a profit of $26 million in Q2 and showed an increase of 12% in stocks for the first time after losses in many quarters. During the second quarter of 2010, the company reported a profit of $162 million, which compared very favorably to the $26 million earned for the same period the year before. Its Mobile Devices division reported, for the first time in years, earnings of $87 million.[46]

Spin-offs

Automotive

On January 29, 1988, Motorola sold its Arcade, New York facility and automotive alternators, electromechanical speedometers and tachometers products to Prestolite Electric.[47]

Biometrics

In 2000, Motorola acquired Printrak International Inc.[48] for $160 million.[49] In doing so, Motorola not only acquired computer aided dispatch and related software , but also acquired Automated fingerprint identification system software.[50]

In October 2008, Motorola agreed to sell its Biometrics business to Safran, a French defense firm. Motorola's biometric business unit was headquartered in Anaheim, Calif. The deal closed in April 2009.[51] The unit became part of Sagem Morpho, which was renamed MorphoTrak.

Split

On March 26, 2008, Motorola's board of directors approved a split into two different publicly traded companies.[52] This came after talk of selling the company to another corporation.[53] These new companies would comprise the business units of the current Motorola Mobile Devices and Motorola Broadband & Mobility Solutions. Originally it was expected that this action would be approved by regulatory bodies and complete by mid-2009, but the split was delayed due to company restructuring problems and the 2008–2009 extreme economic downturn.[54]

On February 11, 2010, Motorola announced its separation into two independent, publicly traded companies,[55] effective Q1 2011. The official split occurred at around 12:00 pm EST on January 4, 2011. The two new companies are called Motorola Mobility (now owned by Lenovo; cell phone and cable television equipment company) and Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI; Government and Enterprise Business). Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.[6] Motorola Solutions retains Motorola, Inc.'s pre-2011 stock price history, though it retired the old ticker symbol of "MOT" in favor of "MSI".

Motorola Mobility deal by Google

On August 15, 2011, seven months after Motorola Mobility was spun off into an independent company, Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion,[56][57] subject to approval from regulators in the United States and Europe.

According to the filing, Google senior vice president Andy Rubin first reached out to Motorola Mobility in early July 2011 to discuss the purchase by some of Google's competitors of the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks Corp., and to assess its potential impact on the Android ecosystem.

Google boosted its offer for Motorola Mobility by 33% in a single day in early August, even though Motorola wasn't soliciting competing bids. The aggressive bidding by Google showed that the search engine company was under considerable pressure to beef up its patent portfolio to protect its promising Android franchise from a growing number of legal challenges.[58]

According to the filing, Google and Motorola began discussions about Motorola's patent portfolio in early July, as well as the "intellectual property litigation and the potential impact of such litigation on the Android ecosystem".

Motorola Mobility (Google) deal by Lenovo

Environmental record

Motorola, Inc., along with the Arizona Water Co. has been identified as the sources of trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination that took place in Scottsdale, Arizona. The malfunction led to a ban on the use of water that lasted three days and affected almost 5000 people in the area. Motorola was found to be the main source of the TCE, an industrial solvent that is thought to cause cancer. The TCE contamination was caused by a faulty blower on an air stripping tower that was used to take TCE from the water, and Motorola has attributed the situation to operator error.[59]

Of eighteen leading electronics manufacturers in Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics (October 2010), Motorola shares sixth place with competitors Panasonic and Sony).[60]

Motorola scores relatively well on the chemicals criteria and has a goal to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs), though only in mobile devices and not in all its products introduced after 2010, despite the fact that Sony Ericsson and Nokia are already there. All of its mobile phones are now PVC-free and it has two PVC and BFR-free mobile phones, the A45 ECO and the GRASP; all chargers are also free from PVC and BFRs.[60]

The company is also increasing the proportion of recycled materials that used in its products. For example, the housings for the MOTO W233 Renew and MOTOCUBO A45 Eco mobile phones contain plastic from post-consumer recycled water cooler bottles.[61] According to the company's information, all of Motorola's newly designed chargers meet the current Energy Star requirements and exceed the requirements for standby/no-load modes by at least 67%.[62]

See also

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Further reading

  • Gart, Jason H. (2006). Electronics and Aerospace Industry in Cold War Arizona, 1945–1968: Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, Goodyear Aircraft (PhD. diss.). Arizona State University.

External links

 
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February 05, 2023
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This article is about the original company prior to its split in 2011 For the present day companies of this name see Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions For other uses see Motorola disambiguation Motorola Inc ˌ m oʊ t e ˈ r oʊ l e 4 was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg Illinois United States After having lost 4 3 billion from 2007 to 2009 the company split into two independent public companies Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4 2011 5 Motorola Solutions is the legal successor to Motorola Inc as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off 6 Motorola Mobility was acquired by Lenovo in 2014 Motorola Inc TypePublicIndustryTelecommunicationsFoundedSeptember 25 1928 94 years ago 1928 09 25 FounderPaul Galvin DefunctJanuary 4 2011FateSplit into Motorola Mobility and Motorola SolutionsSuccessorMotorola Mobility Motorola Solutions Freescale Semiconductor ON Semiconductor Arris Group General Instrument Cambium NetworksHeadquarters500 W Monroe Ste 4400 1 Chicago Illinois United StatesArea servedWorldwideProductsTablet computersMobile phonesSmartphonesTwo way radiosNetworking systemsCable television systemsWireless broadband networksRFID systemsMobile telephone infrastructureTotal assetsUS 11 851 billion 2013 2 US 12 679 billion 2012 2 Number of employees53 000 2010 3 DivisionsMobile Phone Devices Connected Home Solutions Network Home SolutionsMotorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers Motorola s home and broadcast network products included set top boxes digital video recorders and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting computer telephony and high definition television Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems used to build private networks and public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra These businesses except for set top boxes and cable modems are now part of Motorola Solutions Google sold Motorola Home the former General Instrument cable businesses to the Arris Group in December 2012 for US 2 35 billion 7 Motorola s wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones Also known as the Personal Communication Sector PCS prior to 2004 it pioneered the mobile phone with DynaTAC flip phone with the MicroTAC as well as the clam phone with the StarTAC in the mid 1990s It had staged a resurgence by the mid 2000s with the RAZR but lost market share in the second half of that decade Later it focused on smartphones using Google s open source Android mobile operating system The first phone to use the newest version of Google s open source OS Android 2 0 was released on November 2 2009 as the Motorola Droid the GSM version launched a month later in Europe as the Motorola Milestone The handset division along with cable set top boxes and cable modems was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility On May 22 2012 Google CEO Larry Page announced that Google had closed on its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility 8 On January 29 2014 Google CEO Larry Page announced that pending closure of the deal Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for US 2 91 billion subject to certain adjustments 9 On October 30 2014 Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 Post World War II 2 After 2000 2 1 Motorola post split 3 Finances 4 Spin offs 4 1 Automotive 4 2 Biometrics 4 3 Split 4 3 1 Motorola Mobility deal by Google 4 3 2 Motorola Mobility Google deal by Lenovo 5 Environmental record 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory Edit Local branch in Glostrup Denmark Motorola started in Chicago Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation at 847 West Harrison Street 11 in 1928 Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing Corporation s new car radio and created the name Motorola by linking motor for motorcar with ola from Victrola which was also a popular ending for many companies at the time e g Moviola Crayola 12 The company sold its first Motorola branded radio on June 23 1930 to H C Wall of Fort Wayne Indiana for 30 13 The Motorola brand name became so well known that Galvin Manufacturing Corporation later changed its name to Motorola Inc 14 15 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation began selling Motorola car radio receivers to police departments and municipalities in November 1930 The company s first public safety customers all in the U S state of Illinois included the Village of River Forest Village of Bellwood Police Department City of Evanston Police Illinois State Highway Police and Cook County Chicago area Police 16 Many of Motorola s products have been radio related starting with a battery eliminator for radios through the first hand held walkie talkie in the world in 1940 17 defense electronics cellular infrastructure equipment and mobile phone manufacturing In the same year the company built its research and development program with Dan Noble a pioneer in FM radio and semiconductor technologies who joined the company as director of research The company produced the hand held AM SCR 536 radio during World War II which was vital to Allied communication Motorola ranked 94th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts 18 Motorola went public in 1943 19 and became Motorola Inc in 1947 At that time Motorola s main business was producing and selling televisions and radios Post World War II Edit Motorola vacuum tube carton The last plant was listed in Quincy Illinois at 1400 North 30th Street where 1 200 employees made radio assemblies for both home and automobile 20 In 1969 Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind from the Moon on a Motorola transceiver 21 In 1973 Motorola demonstrated the first hand held portable telephone 22 In 1974 Motorola introduced its first microprocessor the 8 bit MC6800 used in automotive computing and video game applications 23 That same year Motorola sold its television business to the Japan based Matsushita the parent company of Panasonic In 1980 Motorola s next generation 32 bit microprocessor the MC68000 led the wave of technologies that spurred the computing revolution in 1984 powering devices from companies such as Apple Commodore Atari Sun and Hewlett Packard 24 Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first private handheld mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973 This is a reenactment in 2007 In September 1983 the U S Federal Communications Commission FCC approved the DynaTAC 8000X telephone the world s first commercial cellular device By 1998 cellphones accounted for two thirds of Motorola s gross revenue 25 In 1996 Motorola released the Motorola StarMax which was a Macintosh clone that was licensed by Apple and it came with System 7 However with the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997 Apple released Mac OS 8 Because the clone makers licenses were valid only for Apple s System 7 operating system Apple s release of Mac OS 8 left the clone manufacturers without the ability to ship a current Mac OS version without negotiation with Apple 26 A heated telephone conversation between Jobs and Motorola CEO Christopher Galvin resulted in the termination of Motorola s clone contract the discontinuation of the Motorola StarMax and the long favored Apple being demoted to just another customer mainly for PowerPC CPUs Apple and Jobs didn t want Motorola to limit the PowerPC CPU supply so as retaliation Apple and IBM expelled Motorola from the AIM alliance and forced Motorola to stop producing any PowerPC CPUs leaving IBM to make all future PowerPC CPUs However Motorola was later reinstated into the alliance in 1998 27 In 1998 Motorola was overtaken by Nokia as the world s biggest seller of mobile phone handsets 21 In 1999 Motorola separated a portion of its semiconductor business the Semiconductor Components Group SCG and formed ON Semiconductor whose headquarters are located in Phoenix Arizona 28 After 2000 EditIn June 2000 Motorola and Cisco supplied the world s first commercial GPRS cellular network to BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom The world s first GPRS cell phone was also developed by Motorola In August 2000 with recent acquisitions Motorola reached its peak employment of 150 000 employees worldwide 29 Two years later employment would be at 93 000 due to layoffs and spinoffs In June 2005 Motorola overtook the intellectual property of Sendo for 30 000 and paid 362 575 for the plant machinery and equipment 30 In June 2006 Motorola acquired the software platform AJAR developed by the British company TTP Communications plc 31 Later in 2006 the firm announced a music subscription service named iRadio The technology came after a break in a partnership with Apple Computer which in 2005 had produced an iTunes compatible cell phone ROKR E1 and most recently mid 2007 its own iPhone iRadio has many similarities with existing satellite radio services such as Sirius and XM Radio by offering live streams of commercial free music content Unlike satellite services however iRadio content will be downloaded via a broadband internet connection As of 2008 iRadio has not been commercially released and no further information is available 32 Motorola post split Edit On August 15 2011 Google announced that it would purchase Motorola Mobility for about 12 5 billion 33 On November 17 2011 Motorola Mobility stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposed merger with Google Inc 34 On May 22 2012 Google announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc had closed with Google acquiring MMI for 40 00 per share in cash 12 5 billion 35 On October 30 2014 Google sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo The purchase price was approximately US 2 91 billion subject to certain adjustments including US 1 41 billion paid at close US 660 million in cash and US 750 million in Lenovo ordinary shares subject to a share cap floor The remaining US 1 5 billion was paid in the form of a three year promissory note After the purchase Google maintained ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio including current patent applications and invention disclosures while Lenovo received a license to the portfolio of patents and other intellectual property Additionally Lenovo received over 2 000 patent assets as well as the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark portfolio 9 Divisional Products 36 Enterprise Mobility Solutions Headquarters located in Schaumburg Illinois comprises communications offered to government and public safety sectors and enterprise mobility business Motorola develops analog and digital two way radio voice and data communications products and systems mobile computing advanced data capture wireless infrastructure and RFID solutions to customers worldwide Home amp Networks Mobility Headquarters located in Arlington Heights Illinois produces end to end systems that facilitate uninterrupted access to digital entertainment information and communications services via wired and wireless mediums Motorola develops digital video system solutions interactive set top devices voice and data modems for digital subscriber line and cable networks broadband access systems for cable and satellite television operators and also wireline carriers and wireless service providers Mobile Devices Headquarters located in Chicago Illinois designs wireless handsets but also licenses much of its intellectual properties This includes cellular and wireless systems and as well as integrated applications and Bluetooth accessories Some of their latest gadgets are Moto X Gen 3 Moto X Play Moto 360 smartwatch etc Finances EditMotorola s handset division recorded a loss of 1 2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007 while the company as a whole earned 100 million during that quarter 37 It lost several key executives to rivals 38 and the website TrustedReviews called the company s products repetitive and un innovative 39 Motorola laid off 3 500 workers in January 2008 40 followed by a further 4 000 job cuts in June 41 and another 20 cut of its research division a few days later 42 In July 2008 a large number of executives left Motorola to work on Apple Inc s iPhone 43 The company s handset division was also put on offer for sale 44 Also that month analyst Mark McKechnie from American Technology Research said that Motorola would be lucky to fetch 500 million for selling its handset business Analyst Richard Windsor said that Motorola might have to pay someone to take the division off the company s hands and that Motorola may even exit the handset market altogether 45 Its global market share has been on the decline from 18 4 of the market in 2007 the company had a share of just 6 0 by Q1 2009 but at last Motorola scored a profit of 26 million in Q2 and showed an increase of 12 in stocks for the first time after losses in many quarters During the second quarter of 2010 the company reported a profit of 162 million which compared very favorably to the 26 million earned for the same period the year before Its Mobile Devices division reported for the first time in years earnings of 87 million 46 Spin offs EditAutomotive Edit On January 29 1988 Motorola sold its Arcade New York facility and automotive alternators electromechanical speedometers and tachometers products to Prestolite Electric 47 Biometrics Edit In 2000 Motorola acquired Printrak International Inc 48 for 160 million 49 In doing so Motorola not only acquired computer aided dispatch and related software but also acquired Automated fingerprint identification system software 50 In October 2008 Motorola agreed to sell its Biometrics business to Safran a French defense firm Motorola s biometric business unit was headquartered in Anaheim Calif The deal closed in April 2009 51 The unit became part of Sagem Morpho which was renamed MorphoTrak Split Edit On March 26 2008 Motorola s board of directors approved a split into two different publicly traded companies 52 This came after talk of selling the company to another corporation 53 These new companies would comprise the business units of the current Motorola Mobile Devices and Motorola Broadband amp Mobility Solutions Originally it was expected that this action would be approved by regulatory bodies and complete by mid 2009 but the split was delayed due to company restructuring problems and the 2008 2009 extreme economic downturn 54 On February 11 2010 Motorola announced its separation into two independent publicly traded companies 55 effective Q1 2011 The official split occurred at around 12 00 pm EST on January 4 2011 The two new companies are called Motorola Mobility now owned by Lenovo cell phone and cable television equipment company and Motorola Solutions NYSE MSI Government and Enterprise Business Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola Inc as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off 6 Motorola Solutions retains Motorola Inc s pre 2011 stock price history though it retired the old ticker symbol of MOT in favor of MSI Motorola Mobility deal by Google Edit On August 15 2011 seven months after Motorola Mobility was spun off into an independent company Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for 12 5 billion 56 57 subject to approval from regulators in the United States and Europe According to the filing Google senior vice president Andy Rubin first reached out to Motorola Mobility in early July 2011 to discuss the purchase by some of Google s competitors of the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks Corp and to assess its potential impact on the Android ecosystem Google boosted its offer for Motorola Mobility by 33 in a single day in early August even though Motorola wasn t soliciting competing bids The aggressive bidding by Google showed that the search engine company was under considerable pressure to beef up its patent portfolio to protect its promising Android franchise from a growing number of legal challenges 58 According to the filing Google and Motorola began discussions about Motorola s patent portfolio in early July as well as the intellectual property litigation and the potential impact of such litigation on the Android ecosystem Motorola Mobility Google deal by Lenovo EditEnvironmental record EditMotorola Inc along with the Arizona Water Co has been identified as the sources of trichloroethylene TCE contamination that took place in Scottsdale Arizona The malfunction led to a ban on the use of water that lasted three days and affected almost 5000 people in the area Motorola was found to be the main source of the TCE an industrial solvent that is thought to cause cancer The TCE contamination was caused by a faulty blower on an air stripping tower that was used to take TCE from the water and 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