No Matter How You Slice It, Google Lost On Motorola

No amount of positive spin can hide the fact that Google's acquisition of Motorola ended in failure.

Almost as soon as soon as the news broke Wednesday that Lenovo was buying Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.9 billion, the rationalizations over the difference between the sale price and the nearly $13 billion Google paid in 2012 started to appear

The New York Times' "DealBook" has gone as far as to even ask if "Google really lost on its original Motorola deal?" To bolster the claim that the "loss" wasn't that bad, The Times points out that Google sold Motorola Home for $2.4 billion and is keeping most of Motorola's patents. Even taking those factors into account, Google is still losing on the Motorola deal. Read more...

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