Google is on the brink of purchasing Motorola Mobility, which develops and manufactures mobile phones, for $12.5bn to allow it to expand in the smartphone market. This is inspite the success of their android OS. The boards of both companies had unanimously approved the deal which would be finalize by the end of 2011 or early 2012.
Most people would remember Motorola for their Razor phones, famous before smartphones and touch screen phones became affordable. Motorola was once one of the world's most successful mobile phone manufacturers, but has fallen behind the likes of Apple, Samsung and HTC in recent years. The deal seems to be a direct challenge to Apple.
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