Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
 

Google Inc will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion to bolster adoption of its Android mobile software and compete with smartphone rival Apple Inc.

Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion - Yahoo! News

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/...ss&emc=rss

Re: Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
 

I wonder what that will do to HTC and Samsung.

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DANGIT!! You beat me to it Gullzway! :)

This is a very interesting move by Google.

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Both HTC and Samsung have claimed their support for this.

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This basically really hurts WP7 since now Motorola will never make a WP7 device.

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Whomoever put this on the PPCGeeks frontpage completely butchered it.. LOL
They posted the article as if Google bought the entire Motorola brand!! hahaha. Motorola Mobility was just a tiny business unit for them.

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yEA and now knowing this im not as excited as i was when i thought i was all of motorola ... but stilll great news ... excitement went from a 10 to 9.2 :)

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The statements from HTC, Samsung and LG welcoming this deal look oddly similar to me. Wonder what they are thinking , with MS possibly giving prefential treatment to Nokia and Google in bed with Motorola. Should be interesting.

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Part of that was my bad, I coulda linked him to a better article.

you should help us write some articles :)