Moto X is an Android Smartphone developed and manufactured by Motorola Mobility. Motorola’s Moto X, the first Smartphone fully assembled in the United States. Released in August 2013, Moto X is one of the company's first new products since it was acquired by in 2012.MOTO X responds to your voice, no touching necessary. Twist your wrist twice ; it becomes your camera. To Moto X, the magic words are “Okay, Google Now.”
On August 15, 2011, Google announced its intent to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion; At the time, Motorola had just had its fifth straight quarter of losses, plus Google also wanted to have access to the company's portfolio of 17,000 issued patents as a means of defending its Android mobile operating system. Following the closure of the acquisition in 2012, rumors began circulating that Google and Motorola were developing a device known internally as the "X Phone", which would be the company's next flagship device. Reports indicated that the device was to have a focus on unique functionality in an effort to compete against Apple and fellow Android vendor Samsung, and that the company had experimented with curved screens and ceramics as possible hardware aspects. While Motorola's new CEO Dennis Woodside declined to comment directly on the X Phone project, he did mention that the company now had the "resources to do big things" because of its acquisition by Google, and that Motorola was "investing in a team and a technology that will do something quite different than the current approaches."
Moto X was revealed publicly for the first time during a press event on August 1, 2013, where it was announced that the device would be released by all major U.S. carriers, while Rogers Wireless later announced it woul...
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...llion from 2007 to 2009 the company was divided into 2 independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on Jan 4 2011.
• Motorola Mobility Holding, Inc began trading on the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) under the ticker symbol “MMI”
• August 15, 2011, Google announced that it would purchase Motorola Mobility for about $12.5 billion.
• 2012: On May 22, 2012, "Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) has closed, with Google acquiring MMI for $40.00 per share in cash." ($12.5 billion.
• 2013:
• Droid Maxx, Droid Ultra and Droid mini were announced on 23rdjuly 2013
• Moto X was launched in August 2013.
• Moto G was launched on Nov 13,2013
• 2014:On January 29, 2014, Google announced Lenovo plans to acquire the Motorola Mobility Smartphone business for approximately US$2.91 billion.
“Verizon Communications Inc., based in New York City and incorporated in Delaware, was formed on June 30, 2000, with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. Verizon began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the VZ symbol on Monday, July 3, 2000.” Verizon Communications Inc. is a publicly held Corporation. In this paper, I will discuss the corporate roles and duties of a corporation. I will also discuss the differences between a publicly held and closed corporation.
Upon the acquisition and merger of legacy AT&T Wireless by Cingular Wireless and the solidification of SBC, BellSouth and Cingular Wireless, the New AT&T mobility business unit now leads in the current market share narrowly over Verizon Wireless.
In 2009, a sale for 51% of stake in Satyam was put through a global bidding process. Tech Mahindra won the bid, paying 17.57 billion rupees for a 31% stake.
In 2013, Fairfax Financial put an offer of $4.7billion to purchase BlackBerry, however the deal didn’t go through, instead, Fairfax agreed to invest $1B in Blackberry.(http://press.blackberry.com/financial/2013/blackberry-receives-investment-of-u-s---1-billion--from-fairfax-.html)
While profits from semiconductor sales are keeping stakeholders happy, Samsung is pursuing a differentiation strategy in the smartphone market. The managers are committing more resources to researching something they think will revolutionize phones. author name writes, “All smartphone makers face the issue of stagnancy in hardware innovation. Samsung is currently working on developing a smartphone with foldable displays…” (Tanner). There has not been a ground-breaking development in smart phones in the last few years, so the managers believe
Brin and Page incorporated Google in 1998, just nine years ago, with $1 million dollars from family and investors. The quality of Google's search technology attracted a growing amount of users. Many companies had Google as its main web search engine. It took the company till 2001 to be profitable because of its great financial performance. From there they sold 19.6 million shares from which they raised $1.7 billion dollars.
Under the leadership of William Durant, September 16th 1908 marked the birth of the General Motors Company, initially incorporating the Buick Motor Company. GM then purchased Olds Motor Works in November 1908, a 50% stake in the Oakland Motor Car Co (later Pontiac Motors) in January 1909, and Cadillac in July 1909. During its first few years of operation, GM also acquired a number of parts and accessories manufacturers, such as Champion Ignition Company (predecessor of AC Spark Plug) and Fisher Body Company, and also attempted to purchase Ford Motor Co. but were refused a $9.5 million loan from their bankers (GM.com Corporate History).
14. Warman, M., (2014), Nokia X: Android Phone Announced, Telegraph.co.uk, [online] Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/nokia/10657433/Nokia-X-Android-phone-announced.html, Accessed on: 2nd April 2014.
Motorola was originally founded as the Gavin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928. Its first product was a battery eliminator. Its products have grown and changed over the years to include phone, wireless handsets and much more .
Today, Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. The company generates sales of more than $27 billion in a total of 130 countries and employs more than 60,000 people. Its simple mission: to "connect people."
This report is mainly based on the case study Emerging Nokia, using the frameworks and concepts we have learned to analyze the case. This report is divided into 5 parts, first is the summary of the case, the second part is about the competition Nokia faced, the third part is the factors that contributed to the success of Nokia, then the challenges Nokia may face in China and the recommendations to them and the last part is the conclusion of the report.
In 1990, Nokia Mobile Phones (NMP) was the smallest of the five business divisions of Nokia, with annual sales of $500 million and 3,051 employees. Jorma Olilla, the new president of NMP, in the same year led the division to become the world's second largest manufacturer of mobile telephones after Motorola in just a year and half later. Motorola and NEC, the close third competitor, were the dominant players with a combined 33 percent global market share, compared with NMP's share of 13 percent. During this period, the main customers of mobile phones were business users who could afford the high prices. The everyday consumers were not overly attracted by these high prices and limited functional phones. Despite these limitations, the cellular market was growing rapidly, which brought more Asian producers into the competition. To make the matter worse, there was much proprietary technology and equipment required for analog standards around the globe. The emergence of digital technology provided a hope for a uniform communication standard. As a result, NMP had to make a difficult decision regarding which technology to commit significant resources to.
Microsoft wasted almost 8 billion for Nokia’s mobile business. The deal was handled under the
BlackBerry, formerly known as Research in Motion (RIM), was a market leader and innovator for smartphone products. The business and government sectors found the BlackBerry device particularly useful because of its email capabilities, superior security system, and convenient keyboard. As the smartphone industry began to shift its focus towards the average, everyday customer, competition increased, and BlackBerry’s first-mover advantage began to decline. Over the past five years RIM has changed its corporate name to BlackBerry, been purchased by private equity firm Fairfax Financial, written down over $1 billion in assets and unsold inventory, and laid off more than 40% of its workforce (Connors).
In 2007, Apple designed the first touch screen phone and it was a huge change and after three years, everyone wants to buy touch screen phone and Apple became the super star of the smartphone market. Apple’s unique designs changed the definition of fashion in the smartphone world, sine then, apple become the leader of smartphone market.