Thursday 1 August 2013

We'll Learn Tomorrow If Google's $12.5 Billion Bet On Motorola Paid Off Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/moto-x-preview-2013-7#ixzz2ahjl7yBT




At 3 p.m. Eastern, Motorola will formally unveil the Moto X, its newest flagship smartphone and the first product developed under Google's guidance. Google bought bought Motorola for $12.5 billion in 2011 and has been running the company as a separate hardware unit since the deal was finalized in 2012.
That's when Google installed Dennis Woodside as the new CEO of Motorola, replacing Sanjay Jha. Woodside helped oversee the Motorola acquisition for Google in 2011 and 2012 and has been a Googler since 2003.
But Motorola still had an older product pipeline to burn through before it could start working with Google, which is why it introduced three lackluster Droid-branded smartphones on Verizon. The company threw one of the saddest



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