Google lets go of 4,000 Motorola Mobility employees

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

In an effort to curtail Motorola's Mobility's declining sales, Google has let go of 4,000 employees of Motorola Mobility, the company it acquired for $1.5 billion last year in order to secure valuable patents that would aid the search giant in its efforts to dominate the mobile smartphone and tablet market.

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Motorola RAZR V announced for Canada in Q3, now with ICS

 

Motorola Mobility Canada just announced that  the  Motorola RAZR V is coming to Canada in Q3. This is a remarkably thin, at just 8.4 mm, Kevlar encased Android smartphone featuring the Android 4.0 OS also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Pricing has not yet been announced.

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Motorola Mobility cuts 800 jobs prior to Google acquisition

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Motorola Mobility will let go of 800 people in preparation to the acquisition by Google. The job cuts will cost around $27 million in severance as well as $4 million for factory closures according to a report form Bloomberg Businessweek.  Google is purchasing Motorola Mobility for $12 billion, the acquisition was announced on August 15th.

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Motorola launches XT860 4G Slider Smartphone

Motorola Mobility Canada has released the latest in its line of QWERTY slide Android smartphones. The Motorola XT860 4G will be available soon exclusively at Bell Mobility. Featuring a 4"inch qHD screen, a 1080p video recording capable 8 megapixel camera and a dual core 1GHz processor squeezed into a thin, QWERTY slider.

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