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Google has cut approximately 1,200 jobs from its Motorola Mobility unit, amounting to over 10 percent of the company's workforce, according to the Wall Street Journal. In an email sent to Motorola staffers this week, management cited high costs, competitive markets and declining profitability as the reasons behind the layoffs. Google bought Motorola last year for $12.5...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 15 days ago)
Google's $12.4 billion purchase last year of mobile-phone pioneer Motorola Mobility partly for its trove of more than 17,000 patents is showing signs it wasn't much of a bargain.
mercurynews.com (21 days ago)

NEW YORK — Google is cutting an additional 1,200 jobs in its Motorola division as the unprofitable cellphone maker struggles to compete. Last summer, Google Inc. announced 4,000 Motorola job cuts. The latest reductions are in addition to those and will be in countries including the U.S., China and India. “These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last...
time.com (2 months and 14 days ago)

Fresh from creating Google Glass, could Google now be turning its attention to a Google watch? We've heard that watches from Microsoft and LG may also be forthcoming, while an Apple iWatch is also widely predicted. Samsung has already confirmed it will be producing such a device. So what about Google watch? Well here's everything we know so far. Google watch launchIt's...
techradar.com (5 days ago)

Google is starting a new fiscal year and CEO Larry Page is pleased, "We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14.0 billion in revenue, up 31% year-on-year." He also had things to share about Android, mobile search and Motorola. Let's look at the financials first - Google reported a revenue of $13.97 billion with operating income being 25% of that, $3.48 billion. Net income...
gsmarena.com (1 month and 1 day ago)
Google has long been rumored to be developing a high-end smartphone, codenamed the X Phone, in collaboration with its Motorola division that would be designed to push the boundaries of mobile innovation. New information suggests, however, that the company has abandoned the project because it could not achieve the level of innovation it had originally hoped for. The report...
yahoo.com (11 days ago)
The Verge asks if anyone can work out why Google bought Motorola. Their argument being that they're not having much luck in enforcing the patent portfolio against anyone so therefore that's $12.5 billion just wasted. I'm afraid this isn't quite right: there's a lot more value inside Motorola than just the patent portfolio: Why did Google spend $12.5 billion to purchase...
forbes.com (21 days ago)

We were just sent a render of an yet unannounced Motorola Android smartphone. What you see pictured below is supposedly the Motorola X Phone, which might break cover at Google I/O starting on May 15. Along with the render came a short description of the specs, as reported by a person close to the team behind the X Phone. Since we got no proof of that information or the acual...
gsmarena.com (1 month and 25 days ago)
Google says it's cutting an additional 1,200 jobs in its Motorola division as the unprofitable cellphone maker struggles to compete.The latest reductions come on top of the 4,000 Motorola job cuts that Google Inc. announced last summer, and will be in countries including the U.S., China and India.
thenewstribune.com (2 months and 14 days ago)

Now that Sony, LG, HTC, and Samsung have all pulled back the curtains on their flagship Android smartphones, the rumor mill can churn with renewed focus on yet another nebulous device -- Motorola's secretive X Phone. Or rather, X Phones. According to Android And Me's Taylor Wimberly, X Phone isn't going to be a product name so much as it is a banner that multiple phones will...
techcrunch.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
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