{"id":23936,"date":"2015-04-21T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=23936"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:40:08","slug":"why-did-google-buy-motorola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/why-did-google-buy-motorola\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Google buy Motorola?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quora runs the question: \u00a0\u00a0Why did Google buy Motorola for $12.5 billion and sell it off for $2.91 billion?<\/a>\u00a0Apparently, not only for patents. \u00a0Interesting!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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!<\/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":"Why did Google buy Motorola for $12.5 billion and sell it off for $2.91 billion? #Google #Motorola #android #mobile #business","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":[1968,2068,2400,3262,2878],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-23936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-business","tag-google","tag-google-android","tag-motorola","tag-patents","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20147,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/01\/now-that-googles-selling-motorola-how-much-did-it-overpay-in-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":23936,"position":0},"title":"Now that Google’s selling Motorola, how much did it overpay in 2011?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 1, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Now that Google's selling Motorola, how much did it overpay in 2011? 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