Google sells "Motorola Mobility" smartphone business to Lenovo

PC makers headquartered in ChinaLenovoHowever, Google's mobile phone manufacturer "Motorola Mobility"We are planning to acquire the smartphone business. The acquisition amounted to 2.9 billion dollars (about 296 billion yen).

Official Blog: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
http://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-motorola-mobility.html

Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola in China's largest tech deal | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/29/us-google-lenovo-idUSBREA0S1YN20140129

"Motorola Mobility" is a mobile phone business division of mobile phone handset manufacturer Motorola, and in 2011Google acquired 12.5 billion dollars (about 960 billion yen)Then, it was put under its umbrella.

This time, Lenovo acquires this smart phone business of this Motorola Mobility. Lenovo is a PC manufacturer in China, in 2005 owned and deployed the "ThinkPad" brand by taking over the PC business of IBM. In 2014 I bought IBM's low-priced server business.

Lenovo has already entered the smartphone business, but by acquiring Motorola Mobility, we will be fully entering into the American mobile phone market as well.

By the way, although Lenovo will get brand name "Motorola Mobility" and more than 2000 patents,Patent portfolioMost of it will remain on Google's hands.

I'm looking forward to see how Lenovo's movements will affect the smartphone market.