Last week Google Bought Patent Powerhouse Motorola for $12.5 billion in the hopes that their patents would stave off all the suits against Android platform and its partners. Motorola has 17,000 registered patents and then they have another 7,500 patents pending.
Google is the Internets biggest index of content, the largest search engine, it has the largest online text ads program, the biggest source of video content, they are the source of traffic and data analysis for millions of websites, they are the third biggest email provider, the only player in “real time,” they have the second biggest blogging platform, the biggest mapping software…and the list goes on and on.
Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion cash on Monday, dipping into their $39 billion cash reserve. This deal allows Google to secure its integration in the smartphone industry and enter the hardware industry. This move leaves Google better able to compete with Apple’s iPhone, enabling them to manufacture their own phones for the Android platform.
