Google acquires Motorola

The $12.5 billion deal will significantly boost Google's presence in the mobile device market. Writing on the official Google blog, CEO Larry Page praised the "natural fit between [the] two companies," due in no small part to Motorola adopting Google's Android operating system across its entire range of smartphones back in 2008. Page stresses that the deal will not affect Google's treatment of Android as an open platform, and said it would also strengthen the company's patent portfolio "to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies."

Source: Google