{"id":20147,"date":"2014-02-01T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=20147"},"modified":"2014-02-01T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:06:12","slug":"now-that-googles-selling-motorola-how-much-did-it-overpay-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/01\/now-that-googles-selling-motorola-how-much-did-it-overpay-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that Google’s selling Motorola, how much did it overpay in 2011?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that Google’s selling Motorola, how much did it overpay in 2011?<\/a><\/p>\n

Just how much did Google (GOOG) overpay for Motorola Mobility when it agreed to buy the phone maker for $12.5 billion in 2011\u00a0Shareholders will have to figure that out after Google announced on Wednesday that it is unloading the money-losing subsidiary on Chinese electronics maker Lenovo Group (0992.HK) for $2.9 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, Motorola had $3 billion of cash on its balance sheet when it was acquired and Google later sold a set-top box division for $2.4 billion. But that still leaves Google CEO Larry Page left to explain why he\u2019s only getting $3 billion for the remaining net investment of $7 billion. “Patents,” he’d likely reply.<\/p>\n

Analysts speculated all along that Google made the hasty deal only to get control of Motorola\u2019s vast trove of about 17,000 patents. At the time, Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) appeared to be waging an intellectual property war to beat back the Android challenge. Many of those battles continue and intellectual property attorneys are split over whether the Motorola patents have helped Google much, if at all.<\/p>\n

Still, Google said it would retain “the vast majority” of patents from Motorola in the sale to Lenovo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Now that Google’s selling Motorola, how much did it overpay in 2011? Just how much did Google (GOOG) overpay for Motorola Mobility when it agreed to buy the phone maker for $12.5 billion in 2011\u00a0Shareholders will have to figure that out after Google announced on Wednesday that it is unloading the money-losing subsidiary on Chinese … Continue reading Now that Google’s selling Motorola, how much did it overpay in 2011?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1210,1968,2068,2400,1497,1141,3262,2878],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-20147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-acquisitions","tag-business","tag-google","tag-google-android","tag-lenovo","tag-mobile","tag-motorola","tag-patents","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23936,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/why-did-google-buy-motorola\/","url_meta":{"origin":20147,"position":0},"title":"Why did Google buy Motorola?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 21, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Quora runs the question: \u00a0\u00a0Why did Google buy Motorola for $12.5 billion and sell it off for $2.91 billion?\u00a0Apparently, not only for patents. \u00a0Interesting!","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14320,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/12\/motorola-defy-my-first-android-device\/","url_meta":{"origin":20147,"position":1},"title":"Motorola Defy – my first Android device","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been more than three years since Google announced their Android platform, but I still remember how excited I was. \u00a0I knew that it would be years before I'd own a device running Android, but that didn't matter to me. \u00a0It was (and still is) a very cool concept\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/motorola_defy-500x375.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16281,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/17\/galaxy-nexus\/","url_meta":{"origin":20147,"position":2},"title":"Galaxy Nexus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been a happy owner of Motorola Defy for more than a year now. \u00a0It is a fantastic phone - small, well built, water resistant and powerful enough. \u00a0The only thing that bothered me about it was that Motorola stopped releasing Android updates for it and it was stack at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Galaxy-Nexus-500x286.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10394,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/21\/motorola-vs-nokia-on-the-linux-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":20147,"position":3},"title":"Motorola vs. Nokia on the Linux market","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets! 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