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Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility is given regulatory seal of approval
Google’s biggest-ever takeover has been given approval by competition regulators in both the EU and USA, paving the way for the takeover to be legally completed.
Back in August 2011, Google announced a $12.5bn bid to buy Motorola’s mobile technology division. These videos outline the strategic rationale for the takeover:
At the time the takeover was announced, many observers questioned Google’s decision to diversify into smartphone and tablet manufacture. Some have questioned whether Google is losing its strategic focus with takeovers of this kind.
However, a key part of the deal was that the takeover will give Google access to thousands of Motorola Mobility’s patents. Google’s CEO Chief executive Larry Page explained that the takeover would “enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies”.
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Is there a Business Opportunity from Your Digital Afterlife? [13 Apr 2013]
Innovation: Google Glass - the Computer Your Wear [23 Mar 2013]
Growth strategy - Tesco’s “Related-diversification” into Family Restaurants [15 Mar 2013]
Would you pay $10,000 for a smartphone? [4 Mar 2013]
Design Becomes Part of the Culture at Google [13 Feb 2013]
Blackberry’s Last Hope - What it costs to make the Z10 [12 Feb 2013]
A Big Takeover in Media Market: Virgin Media Sold to Liberty Global for £15bn [7 Feb 2013]
Corporate tax avoidance - legal, but unethical? [17 Jan 2013]
Sony’s New Super Smartphone - A Premium Product, But Can It Compete with Apple & Samsung? [10 Jan 2013]
Revision Presentation - Protecting a Startup’s Business Idea [30 Dec 2012]
Technological Change - MP3 Players in Rapid Decline [27 Dec 2012]
HMV’s strategy of diversification comes to an end [4 Dec 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Irn-Bru Meets Fruit Shoot [14 Nov 2012]
Innovation: Big Spending on R&D Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Strong Innovation [11 Nov 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers: Nike Kicks Umbro into Row Z [25 Oct 2012]
How the Tech companies make their money [9 Oct 2012]
Protecting Business Ideas - Bratz v Barbie [4 Oct 2012]
Technological Change: A Crucial Period in the Smartphone Market [2 Sep 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the last Car Rental deal? [28 Aug 2012]
Kraft & Cadbury ” Everything we hoped it would be…and More” [20 Aug 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Google Takes the Knife to Motorola Mobility [13 Aug 2012]
Another good reason to work at Google - Pay when you Die! [10 Aug 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - How to Destroy 99% of a Takeover’s Value [3 Jul 2012]
ResearchBuster: Acquisitions [17 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Impact On and Reaction Of Stakeholders to Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Motives for Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Problems of Takeovers and Mergers including Integration [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Factors Influencing the Success of Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Impact of Takeovers and Mergers on Business Performance [15 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and mergers: Wholesale Changes ahead for Booker & Makro [13 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and mergers: JD Sports and the Blacks Leisure Headache [13 Jun 2012]
Is shareholder value the only way to evaluate the success or failure of a takeover or merger? [13 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the Language of M&A [13 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and mergers: Every merger deal that has ever occurred (explained in fewer than 1000 words) [7 Jun 2012]
Motivation, Culture and Productivity - the Google Way [29 May 2012]
BUSS4 Example Essay - Integration Planning for Takeovers and Mergers [26 May 2012]
BUSS4 - a clash of culture and a failed takeover [25 May 2012]
Did Ben & Jerry’s change Unilever? [24 May 2012]
A neat interactive tool for students to analyse the smartphone market [22 May 2012]
6 Essential M&A Cases: Tata Group buys Jaguar Land Rover [21 May 2012]
AQA BUSS4 - ‘with reference to *** plc and your own research ....’ [13 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - A Casino Gamble? [12 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Vue on the Growth Trail! [12 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - one that went badly wrong (BMW and Rover) [10 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the failed takeover behind Clinton Cards’ Collapse [9 May 2012]
Vodafone takes over Cable and Wireless Worldwide [23 Apr 2012]
6 Essential M&A Cases: BA & Iberia Merge to Form IAG [23 Apr 2012]
BUSS4: 6 Essential M&A Cases [23 Apr 2012]
Easy ride for Audi? [19 Apr 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Cost Synergies in Action at BMI [17 Apr 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers: Facebook & Instagram in News Clips [14 Apr 2012]
Enterprise, Location and Culture - Inside the new Google Campus in London [14 Apr 2012]
Strategy & Technological Change - Whatever Happened to BlackBerry? [14 Apr 2012]
Move over Apple, Samsung, Sony & Nokia. Here Comes China’s Huawei [7 Apr 2012]
BUSS4 M&A - the Benefits of Foreign Takeovers of UK Firms [7 Apr 2012]
IAG bid for BMI receives approval [3 Apr 2012]
Google and YouTube - a backward step? [2 Apr 2012]
The Main Motives Behind Takeovers and Mergers [26 Mar 2012]
“Strategy is Choice” - Takeovers are Just One Option [25 Mar 2012]
Starbucks acquisition provides the base for entry into the juice bar market [25 Mar 2012]
UK manufacturing - GlaxoSmithKline invests in 1,000 new jobs [22 Mar 2012]
Game Over? [13 Mar 2012]
Two Lesson Videos on Nokia - Will their Strategy Work? [13 Mar 2012]
Lesson Video on Patent Protection - the Battle for Smartphone Advantage [12 Mar 2012]
Tata & Jaguar Land Rover - Culture and Strategy [11 Mar 2012]
Takeover and merger integration: lessons from the experts (GE Capital) [9 Mar 2012]
Takeover troubles - Has the Co=operative got Indigestion with the Somerfield Integration? [5 Mar 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - tutor2u Mini Briefs [4 Mar 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the BUSS4 Card Game [4 Mar 2012]
Start-ups - the Wooden Smartphone? [4 Mar 2012]
Takeovers - the Indian Experience [4 Mar 2012]
Takeover insights: Kraft & Cadbury - The Story in Video Clips [22 Feb 2012]
Takeover insights: Kraft & Cadbury - Behind the Scenes of the Bid Defence [22 Feb 2012]
Tata and the rise of Jaguar Land Rover [22 Feb 2012]
Takeover insights: Kraft & Cadbury - Justifying the Deal [22 Feb 2012]
AQA BUSS4 CPD Briefing Days in 2012 [16 Feb 2012]
M&A - It’s time to merge breakfast cereals with some crisps… [15 Feb 2012]
The Strategic Challenges Facing International Airlines Group - Interview with Willie Walsh [14 Feb 2012]
For sale - three sixth form colleges [13 Feb 2012]
M&A: 8 ways to make a success of a takeover [12 Feb 2012]
Q&A: What are synergies in takeovers and mergers? [12 Feb 2012]
Insights on takeovers and mergers from KPMG’s 2011 global survey [12 Feb 2012]
Takeovers - the search for cost synergies [7 Feb 2012]
The story of a failed takeover - Fred Goodwin, RBS & ABN-Amro [6 Feb 2012]
Takeovers in the UK - the long-term trend [5 Feb 2012]
Cadbury’s Law - Should UK Firms be Protected from Takeover? [2 Feb 2012]
Mastering the art of merger integration [1 Feb 2012]
BUSS4 research - some initial ideas [1 Feb 2012]
BUSS4 2012 - Mergers and Takeovers on the Business Studies Blog [31 Jan 2012]
The Guardian on Takeovers and Mergers [31 Jan 2012]
In Business - technology developments in 2012 [3 Jan 2012]
Investment in People - Google and Human Capital [27 Dec 2011]
Consolidation on the cards as IAG claims deal to acquire BMI [6 Nov 2011]
Meet the CEO of Dropbox - the man who said no to Steve Jobs! [20 Oct 2011]
Insights on invention from Trevor Bayliss [14 Sep 2011]
Smartphone market shares spell trouble for Nokia [17 Aug 2011]
High growth, fast-track firms that end on the scrapheap [2 Aug 2011]
The costs of redundancy [5 Jul 2011]
Profit, not external growth, should be the sensible strategy? [22 May 2011]
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