Motorola, whose mobility business was fully acquired by Google two days ago, said its mobility business will run as a separate company in India.
“Motorola has a long-standing presence in India and the Asia-Pacific region, and that will continue. Mobility is owned by Google but will keep its operations separate,” a spokesperson from Motorola told Business Line.
There are no immediate changes in the regions and operations would continue as before, the spokesperson said.
However, Motorola Mobility's financial performance will be broken out as part of Google's quarterly results, the spokesperson said, adding that Motorola will remain a licensee of Android.
However, when asked about the number of employees in India, where Motorola has an office in Gurgaon, the spokesperson said, “We don't disclose our employee numbers in specific offices.”
Similar to its global operations, Motorola here provides mobility solutions and sells mobile handsets at different range.
For example, from low-end model like Motorola Moto Yuva at around Rs 1,100 to Motorola Xoom at around Rs 33,000.
However, the company has a tough competition from Samsung and Nokia to even local companies such as Micromax and Lava. The only model that the company had done well was through Motorola Razr V3.
When asked about the expected changes, a Google India spokesperson said as of now, they had no information apart from the global announcements made on May 22.
Motorola DEFY XT535 Arrives in Hong Kong - Softpedia
Just like most smartphones in the DEFY series, the XT535 is IP67 certified, which makes it dust and water proof (up to 1m for 30 mins). The phone’s design has been changed and now looks more like the DEFY MINI rather than the old DEFY+.
Built to last, Motorola DEFY XT535 sports a 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display (480 x 854 pixels), which features Corning Gorilla Glass coating. The smartphone is less than 12mm thin, which makes it more than 1mm thinner than the previous Motorola DEFY+ model.
Customers living in Hong Kong can now grab the original black with stylish black dust trim version, but additional color-themes might be added in the future.
The DEFY XT535 is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system integrated with MotoSwitch user interface. The latter enables the smartphone to learn who the users talk to and which apps they use most and keeps all of that information front and center.
On the back, the device packs a 5-megapixel photo snapper with autofocus and LED flash, while in the front there’s a secondary VGA camera for video calls.
Motorola DEFY XT535 is equipped with a 1 GHz single-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM and microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).
Another strong point of the phone is the long-lasting 1650 mAh Li-Ion battery, which is rated by the manufacturer for up 12 days of standby time or up to 9 hours of talk time.
“Motorola DEFY XT 535 takes life-proof to the next level with a sharper camera, bigger screen and faster processing power.Now you can stay connected all day long, through every adventure, and share your fun with everyone who matters most to you,” said Ritchie Ma, general manager of Motorola Mobility Taiwan Limited, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Developments in Google's bid for Motorola Mobility - Yahoo Finance
Here are some key developments in Google's Inc.'s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.:
Aug. 15, 2011: Google announces plans to spend $12.5 billion to buy Motorola Mobility. Google would get Motorola's lineup of cellphones, tablet computers and cable set-top boxes. More important, Google would get Motorola's more than 17,000 patents — a crucial weapon in an intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and others to gain more control over the increasingly lucrative market for mobile devices.
Aug. 16: Standard & Poor's says investors should sell Google's stock because it believes the decision to buy Motorola Mobility increases the risk to the company and its shares. S&P says that although the acquisition would include a patent trove, that might not be enough to keep Google's Android mobile operating software from encountering intellectual-property issues.
Aug. 22: Standard & Poor's reverses course, saying Google shares have fallen so much that they've now become a good deal.
Sept. 13: In a regulatory filing, Google reveals that the $12.5 billion purchase price is 33 percent more than Google initially offered. If the deal falls through, Google will still have to pay Motorola Mobility $2.5 billion.
Sept. 28: It's disclosed that the U.S. Justice Department is taking a closer look at the deal. The move had been widely expected.
Oct. 27: Motorola Mobility reports smaller net loss in the July-September quarter as phone shipments rises by more than 25 percent from a year earlier.
Nov. 17: Motorola Mobility says its shareholders have overwhelmingly voted to accept the proposed sale.
Dec. 2: With the Motorola deal still pending, the U.S. Justice Department approves Google's acquisition of online advertising service Admeld after concluding the deal wouldn't diminish competition in one of the Internet's most lucrative marketing niches.
Jan. 26, 2012: Motorola Mobility issues disappointing results for the last three months of the year. It reports a loss, mirroring preliminary numbers issued three weeks earlier, amid fierce competition in the markets for smartphones and tablet computers. Some analysts have already been worried that Motorola Mobility will become a financial millstone that could drag down Google's earnings growth. If that happens, Google's stock price would likely suffer.
Feb. 13: European antitrust regulators clear the deal. Although regulators say they didn't find a reason to believe that the transaction would pose any competitive problems, they raise concerns about Motorola's aggressive enforcement of its patents. Hours later, the U.S. Department of Justice also approves the deal.
Feb. 22: Microsoft lodges a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator accusing Motorola Mobility of breaking competition rules with its aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals. The complaint also names Google, which Microsoft fears will continue Motorola Mobility's tight hold on key patents. It follows a similar complaint from Apple.
April 3: The European Commission agrees to investigate whether Motorola is unfairly restricting competitors from licensing essential patents. Motorola holds patents that are essential for standards linked to 2G and 3G wireless technology — the focus of Apple's complaint — as well as Wi-Fi connections and compressing video for online use, which are at the heart of Microsoft's complaint.
May 1: Motorola reports a slightly larger net loss in the first quarter as expenses grew more than revenue.
Saturday: Authorities in China approve Google's bid, though they require Google to make its Android operating system for mobile devices available to all at no cost for the next five years. The condition is apparently in response to concerns that competition could be hurt if Google gives updated versions to Motorola and withholds them from others. Google doesn't currently charge for Android, and it already had pledged to make Android available to all its mobile partners.
Tuesday: Google says it has completed the acquisition. With the purchase, Google expands beyond its roots in programming software to provide Internet search and other online services to manufacturing equipment for the first time. The expansion will test Google's ability to keep its business partners, shareholders and employees happy. Dennis Woodside, president of Google's Americas region, replaces Sanjay Jha as Motorola's CEO.
T-Mobile picks Ericsson, Nokia Siemens for network - Yahoo Finance
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- T-Mobile USA on Tuesday said that Nokia Siemens Networks and LM Ericsson AB will supply the network equipment for its new wireless broadband network, a project worth $4 billion.
T-Mobile is commissioning a "4G LTE" network, the same technology used by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. for their high-speed networks. It will use, in part, radio frequencies handed over by AT&T after the bigger company backed off its deal to buy T-Mobile due to opposition from federal regulators.
In addition to handing over spectrum licenses, AT&T gave T-Mobile $3 billion in cash, which will help finance the upgrade. T-Mobile plans to have the network live next year, covering 75 percent of the 25 largest cities.
Sweden's Ericsson is one of the main suppliers for the LTE networks of Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint Nextel Corp., along with Alcatel-Lucent SA of France.
For Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture of Finland's Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG of Germany, the T-Mobile order represents a new chance to get into the U.S. market for network equipment. It got a $7 billion order from Harbinger Capital, a hedge fund, to build a network for its startup, LightSquared, but that project appears moribund because regulators concluded it would have interfered with GPS navigation.
T-Mobile USA is making the announcement on the first day of CTIA Wireless, the U.S. cellphone industry trade show, in New Orleans. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., with 33.2 million devices on its network. It's a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany.
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