Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5B

Google has just announced that the Motorola Mobility. Search and online advertising company approximately $ 12.5 billion (or $ 40 per share) in cash, is buying the company. 

Motorola Mobility share price last Friday's closing price represents a premium of 63 percent. Google Cash at the last count was about 39 billion dollars. 

PR here (why, and Android is so far) is another important part of: Motorola Mobility, a dedicated partner acquired Android Google Android able to supercharge the ecosystem and will increase competition in mobile computing. 

Motorola mobility to be a licensee of the Android and Android will be open. Google Motorola Mobility will run as a separate business. is the market leader in business solutions. " It also moves to build a company's patent portfolio, he says, it "better than us, Microsoft, Apple and other companies will be able to protect anti-competitive threats to Android." Motorola Mobility According to the website, the company has +14,600 almost 6700 patents and pending patent applications, all over the world as of January 2011, holds. 

Update: You can find updates on the numbers - based on our follow-up post in the conference call. Motorola's Mobility, Motorola Mobile Devices division, who until January 2011. A few years ago, Motorola mobile devices in the market to be complete by Android their future condition "Droid" start - start on the Verizon network - 6 November, 2009. 

"Droid X" and "Droid 2" 2010 to be followed. Now the big question is: HTC, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Acer, Lenovo and other Android device manufacturers, will respond to this news? Update: Google points out that some of them already. Happy Monday, and Motorola Mobility, which Google announced on Monday is happy to be your next acquisition.Now, for a total of about $ 12.5 billion at a price of $ 40 per share, Big G Moto will create a "dedicated to Android partner" for the "Android ecosystem supercharge" and "enhance the competitiveness of mobile computing."