Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI)—formerly the Mobile Devices analysis of Motorola Inc. until January 2011—is a communications association headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville, Illinois. Motorola's networks analysis (called the Personal Communication Section (PCS), above-mentioned to 2004) pioneered the "flip phone" with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s. By the about-face of the 21st Century, it produced addition avant-garde hit product, the (original) RAZR—an ultra-thin cast phone. Motorola had a advantageous advance in the analog cellphone market, but it was apathetic to embrace agenda technology. This accustomed all-around rivals such as Nokia and Samsung Electronics to bypass it; it about bootless to access the all-around acute buzz bazaar until the 2010s.

Motorola connected to acquaintance astringent problems with its cellphone/handset analysis in the latter-2000s, recording a almanac $1.2 billion accident in Q4 2007.2 Its all-around competitiveness connected to decline: from 18.4% bazaar allotment in 2007, to 9.7% by 2008. By 2010, Motorola's all-around bazaar allotment had alone to seventh place, arch to belief of defalcation of the company.3

On August 15, 2011, Google Inc. appear that it had agreed to access the company4 for US$12.5 billion.5 The accretion included a abundant portfolio of patents endemic by Motorola.6 On February 13, 2012 Google accustomed final approval from the United States Department of Justice and the EU.7