Google Corporation. (GOOG) decided to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Corporation. (MMI) for around $12.5 billion, a move that will make Google more competitive within the mobile-computing market.
The offer, which comes just eight several weeks following the split of Motorola Corporation., gives Google charge of Motorola Mobility’s attractive patent portfolio following the Internet giant lately skipped on an offer for Nortel Systems Corp.’s (NRTLQ) portfolio. Google, which is the owner of the short-growing Android operating-system utilized in an incredible number of cell phones, includes a thin portfolio of wireless and telecommunications patents.