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I'm not sure how you could make an evaluation like this without knowing the scope of the patents they kept, which by all accounts was the reason for the acquisi
by nkozyra 12y ago
I'm not sure how you could make an evaluation like this without knowing the scope of the patents they kept, which by all accounts was the reason for the acquisition in the first place.
- Zigurd 12y agoAfter they bought Moto, the patent wars raged on. The value of the patents is by now evident. Even after the patents and real estate and spin-outs of the STB and other non-mobile OEM businesses, Google lost billions of dollars and spent 10s of man years of senior management attention on restructuring Moto and preventing Moto's stodgy, risk averse telecom industry employees from infecting Google. Moto is a far better company now, but also a much smaller and lower-value company. One could also say buying Nokia was Microsoft's biggest brain fart. Google has managed to clean house faster.