Google Adquiere Motorola Mobility

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Esta mañana (Lunes 15 de Agosto) de manera un poco improvista, Google anuncia que ha aceptado comprar Motorola Bobility por un total de doce billones y medio de dolares($12'500.000.000), conviertiendo asi a Motorola el 'compañero dedicado de Android' para 'super cargar el ecosistema Android'.
La desicion de Google ya se veía venir depues de las declaraciones por parte de Motorola en las que de una manera un poco indirecta insinuaban a Google, nos compran o empezamos tambien a demandarlos.
Es una gran oportunidad para Android que que seguira igual de libre, pero librandose de algunos de sus problemas de patentes y ademas con el apoyo de un fabricante dedicado de hardware.
Hoy Google a anotado un punto mas trayendo un mundo de nuevas posibilidades para su OS Android.

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Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility (http://bit.ly/oVi9wU)

8/15/2011 04:35:00 AM

Since its launch in November 2007, Android has not only dramatically increased consumer choice but also improved the entire mobile experience for users. Today, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide—with over 550,000 devices now lit up every day—through a network of about 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers in 123 countries. Given Android’s phenomenal success, we are always looking for new ways to supercharge the Android ecosystem. That is why I am so excited today to announce that we have agreed to acquire Motorola (http://investor.google.com/releases/2011/0815.html).

Motorola has a history of over 80 years of innovation in communications technology and products, and in the development of intellectual property, which have helped drive the remarkable revolution in mobile computing we are all enjoying today. Its many industry milestones include the introduction of the world’s first portable cell phone nearly 30 years ago, and the StarTAC—the smallest and lightest phone on earth at time of launch. In 2007, Motorola was a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance (http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/) that worked to make Android the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. I have loved my Motorola phones from the StarTAC era up to the current DROIDs.

In 2008, Motorola bet big on Android as the sole operating system across all of its smartphone devices. It was a smart bet and we’re thrilled at the success they’ve achieved so far. We believe that their mobile business is on an upward trajectory and poised for explosive growth.

Motorola is also a market leader in the home devices and video solutions business. With the transition to Internet Protocol, we are excited to work together with Motorola and the industry to support our partners and cooperate with them to accelerate innovation in this space.

Motorola’s total commitment to Android in mobile devices is one of many reasons that there is a natural fit between our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers everywhere.

This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform. Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. Many hardware partners have contributed to Android’s success and we look forward to continuing to work with all of them to deliver outstanding user experiences.

We recently explained (http://bit.ly/qTIoAV)how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.

The combination of Google and Motorola will not only supercharge Android, but will also enhance competition and offer consumers accelerating innovation, greater choice, and wonderful user experiences. I am confident that these great experiences will create huge value for shareholders.

I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.

Posted by Larry Page, CEO


Mas información, se incluye un webcast, y otros datos: Fuente (http://investor.google.com/releases/2011/0815.html)

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Con esta adquisición Google se queda con patentes necesarias para competir con el iphone de Apple.

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Aporte importante esta mañana lo oi, y ahora ke pensaran samsung y demas dispositivos ke tiene android, si google es competencia

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Con esta adquisición Google se queda con patentes necesarias para competir con el iphone de Apple.
Y no solo con Apple, Motorola tiene patentes en todo lado, por ejemplo, las de redes le podrian servir para negociar con Oracle, y evitar la mayor y mas peligrosa demanda de patentes que puede tener google (por las patentes de Java).

Mas información sobre las patentes:

Google and Motorola: what are all those patents for? (http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/15/google-motorola-patents-for/)

Posted by: Nilay Patel (http://thisismynext.com/author/nilay/) on August 15, 2011 10:08 am | View Comments (http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/15/google-motorola-patents-for/#comments)

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Google tried to present its $12.5b acquisition of Motorola (http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/15/google-buy-motorola-mobility-hardware-business/) as an opportunity to “supercharge the Android ecosystem,” but it’s clear that the deal was equally prompted out of desire to protect Android from further patent lawsuits using Motorola’s strong patent portfolio. From all appearances, it actually seems like Google was first interested in somehow licensing or buying Motorola’s patents, and then decided it would be nice to spend a little more and just buy the whole damn company. Of course, that raises the question: what’s going to happen now? The smartphone landscape is awash in patent suits, most targeted at Android OEMs, and Google’s clearly looking to have an impact. What’s the strategy?



First, as Google general counsel David Drummond noted on the conference call announcing the deal, nothing can really happen until the deal closes. That’s going to take some time, since the acquisition needs to be approved by regulators in the US and Europe. Until then, Motorola’s on its own, although I’d imagine the lines of communication between the two companies will be wide open.
Once the deal closes, Motorola will be run as a separate business, but it sounds like Google will take formal possession (called an “assignation”) of Motorola’s 12.5k issued patents and 7500 patent applications. That’ll give the company the right to sue others with them and/or license them out.
There are three major cases that this acquisition will affect, and Google will have to negotiate each one individually. The end goal for Google in each case will be to acquire a broad patent license that covers the entire Android ecosystem and then indemnify all of its partners against further patent lawsuits, which could be quite challenging — and potentially quite expensive. Let’s look at the outstanding cases.

Motorola vs. Apple: Motorola actually sued Apple first, asking the court to declare Moto smartphones clear of Apple’s patents, and then Apple sued back. The Google acquisition really only changes the balance insofar as Google has plenty of money and patience to keep fighting, while Motorola Mobility was still getting itself steady as an independent company following the spinoff. Whatever threat Motorola’s patents posed to Apple doesn’t seem to have prompted Cupertino to enter into substantive negotiations about a settlement and cross-license, and now Google will now have to convince Apple to enter into an agreement that covers the entire Android ecosystem. That doesn’t seem easy.
Microsoft vs. Motorola: Microsoft sued Moto first, and then Moto sued back. What’s interesting is that these two are actually former partners, and both seem somewhat willing to enter into patent licensing agreements — Microsoft is already collecting patent royalties from HTC on Android phones, for example. That might make Google’s task easier, but don’t underestimate Ballmer’s desire to beat out his competitors in Mountain View at all costs — Google will have to pose a significant threat to Microsoft before the Redmond boys will do anything to make Android more appealing to OEMs than Windows Phone 7.
Oracle vs. Google: Here’s where it gets interesting. The Oracle case is probably the most significant to the Android ecosystem right now, and it’s also the one in which Google is doing the most poorly — internal Google emails showing that the company decided to use Java without a proper license have recently been revealed. That means Google’s probably motivated to settle, and Motorola’s patents give it a great opportunity: Oracle obviously doesn’t make phones or mobile operating systems, but Motorola owns plenty of patents on networking and video encoding as well. That’s the sort of easy cross-license that makes sense, but it all depends on whether Oracle decides it stands more to gain from collecting license fees from Android or more to lose from a Motorola patent lawsuit. Look for this one to be affected first — probably by a Google countersuit as soon as the Motorola acquisition closes.
Other lawsuits like Apple vs. Samsung, Apple vs. HTC, or the various Lodsys cases won’t be affected directly in the short term — Google’s not a named party to any of those, and it’ll probably stay mostly on the sidelines unless it can somehow leverage Motorola’s patents into ecosystem-wide licenses.



All that said, it’s still curious why Google spent the full $12.5b on Motorola, instead of a smaller amount acquiring the rights to Moto’s patents — or the rights to litigate with those patents. (Or even something more like the Microsoft / Nokia deal, which involved patent cross-licensing and joint development by the two companies.) It’s easy to see why Google and Motorola joined forces to make the most out of Moto’s patents — but now they’ve got to explain how they’ll make the most out of what actually matters: Motorola’s products.

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