Why did Google spend $12.5 billion dollars to purchase Motorola Mobility? It's been nearly two years since the deal was announced and close to a full year since it closed, and the questions keep piling up while the answers keep getting worse.
The biggest problem is that Motorola's patent portfolio doesn't appear to be worth anything close to what either company assumed: the judge in the Microsoft vs. Motorola patent case ruled yesterday that Redmond owes a paltry $1.7 million in annual royalties for using Motorola's standards-related Wi-Fi and video encoding patents in every Xbox 360 and Windows 7 PC sold, not the more than $4 billion Motorola had originally demanded.
To put that in perspective, it would take 3,235 years for...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271432/does-anyone-know-why-google-bought-motorola
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