Chapter 774 Motorola Mobility
As a veteran communications company, Motorola Mobility has more than 17,000 patents and 7,500 patent applications. Acquiring it will give Android companies sufficient "ammunition" to defeat Apple, Microsoft and other companies have launched patent infringement lawsuits against the Android mobile operating system.
Hearing Barron's words, Ivanta's eyes lit up and said:
"That's true. If we can acquire Motorola's mobile department, we can completely enrich our patent library. Don't be afraid. Anti-competitive threats from companies such as Microsoft and Apple... But although Motorola's mobile phone department has been losing money, if you want to buy it, I'm afraid there will be a considerable premium."
That's true, Ba. Lun knew that in his previous life, Google spent a total of US$12.8 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility. This price represented a premium of as much as 63% compared to the stock price of Motorola Mobility at the time!
However, in the previous life, Google acquired Motorola Mobility in August next year. If it were to acquire it now, it should not reach a price as high as US$12.8 billion, but no matter what, it would not be lower than $10 billion.
“In addition to being able to obtain many of their patents, acquiring Motorola Mobility can still have many other benefits for us. In addition, it does not mean that we cannot use some methods to share costs.”
In fact, Barron had already analyzed this matter. After he told Ivanta, she finally became more moved.
First of all, when Google acquired Motorola Mobility, Motorola Mobility itself had US$3 billion in cash.
This means that even if the acquisition of Motorola Mobility is completed at a price of US$12.8 billion, the actual capital cost required is only US$9.8 billion.
Besides, after Android Company acquired Motorola Mobility, in addition to obtaining many of its patents, it was also able to strengthen Android Company's technical level in hardware, which is very important for the future integrated design of software and hardware of Android systems. of.
In addition, in terms of mobile phone brands, although Barron does not care about Motorola, many companies are still interested.
For example, Google sold Motorola's mobile phone business (excluding patents) to Lenovo for nearly US$3 billion in 2014.
So after Android Company acquires Motorola Mobility and absorbs their hardware technology, it can still do the same and sell Motorola's mobile phone business...
Motorola Mobility itself also includes Broadband and set-top box business, this part of the business will also be interested in O2 Telecom and SEM Group, and can be separated and sold by then...
Motorola Mobility's strong position in home devices and video solutions will benefit SEM Group by strengthening its set-top box business in the UK, North America and other markets.
Calculated in this way, the amount of money Android companies need to spend purely for Motorola's technology and patents is not that much, and it is completely within the amount they can afford - after all, including Apple, Microsoft, and Sony Six companies spent US$4.5 billion to purchase more than 6,000 Nortel Networks patents...
What's more, the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will be very beneficial to the tablet computer market of Android companies. Currently, the Android system is difficult to compete with Apple's iPad in this market. Although Honor Electronics has tablet computer products, it is still far behind in terms of sales. iPad, and Motorola still has a certain reputation in this market.
“At that time, you can use the name of IC Capital to acquire Motorola Mobility, and then after the acquisition is completed, spin it off, merge some businesses with Android Company, and other businesses can be sold... ..."
After such analysis, Ivanta became more and more excited. She could not wait to start forming a team immediately and start negotiating the acquisition with Motorola...
Of course, before that...
"How are you going to repay me, baby?" "What do you think? Your Highness the Duke..."
Ivantana The charming figure sat on Barron's lap, condescendingly asking seductively.
The temperature in the room immediately began to rise to scorching hot...
Ivanta, on the other hand, took off her arms and looked like a proud female knight...
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She was worthy of being the most powerful among the Baron women. Early the next morning, Ivanta has left the Long Island estate to form a team to prepare for the acquisition of Motorola Mobility...
"Your Highness, news from London, Mr. Mike Lynch called to ask when you will return to England. , he hopes to meet you..."
Hearing the words of personal assistant Zhang Junning, Barron said without hesitation:
"I will be here recently, just let him talk to Friedman about something."
Although Mike Lynch is still very well-known in the British technology industry, known as "British "Bill Gates", but Barron doesn't care about this, or in other words, he doesn't want to have much contact with him.
Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996. The company uses Semantic Computing (MBC) technology researched by the University of Cambridge and is a British technology company that provides high-end search engine software to enterprises.
After experiencing the Internet bubble at the turn of the century, Autonomy also entered the American market, acquired three American companies, and became one of the few British technology companies to grow against the market during the financial crisis.
Some people even claim that Autonomy’s intelligent search engine software may challenge Google’s dominance in this field in the future.
If you look at Autonomy's user directory, you will feel that this company is still very impressive. More than 16,000 government agencies and blue-chip companies have used the powerful pattern matching algorithms in Autonomy products and extracted the meaning from unstructured information through them. .
For example, 21 of the agencies affiliated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security use semantic computing technology to monitor groups suspected of terrorist activities, thereby providing a comprehensive terrorist watch list and implementing Notify relevant authorities in real time of possible terrorist activities.
Ford Motor Company will use semantic computing technology to transform text, audio and video files in its research knowledge base to obtain meaningful reference materials for its more than 150,000 employees to view - with the help of With this information, employees can learn about new projects launched by the company more quickly.
Other companies that have used and benefited from semantic computing-based technologies include: BAE Systems, Boeing, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Shell, AOL, BBC, Reuters, Ericsson, Philips, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods , Nestlé, LloydsTSB, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank Chi Bank, Nomura Securities and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Of course, as a well-known British technology company, Barron's funds have also invested in this company - the Digital Future Investment Company of Caesar Funds , holds approximately 25% of Autonomy's shares. They spent a total of less than US$500 million to acquire these shares.
This is why Barron said that Caesar Fund CEO Pat Friedman would contact the other party...
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