By now you will all have read that Google has agreed to purchase Motorola for a mere $12.5 BILLION DOLLARS. This represents the single largest deal in Google's history. Like many of you, I feel I have a fairly good understanding of what this deal will mean for Google... its a massive first step into mobile and comes with more than 17,000 patents that Motorola currently holds. What I don't know is whether this deal will actually close.
Google has come under scrutiny with the Federal Trade Commission. They’ve launched an investigation of the entire Google's business (likely due to their ridiculous growth and impending world domination). The FTC will be all over the Motorola deal and could force Google to sell off some of Motorola in the interest in keeping the industry competitive… that alone could kill the whole deal right there. It’s an interesting space right now as this comes on the heels of Microsoft's buyout of Skype. Really looks like the battle lines are getting drawn between the empire that is Google and the rebel alliance of Microsoft-Facebook-Skype.
What do you think?
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