Motorola To Split In Two

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Motorola plans to reorganize itself into two independent publicly held companies by the first quarter of 2011. The first company will own the Motorola brand and will include Motorola's mobile handset unit and home set-top box business. This new company will focus on the 'three screens' lifestyle envisioned by carriers like AT&T and Verizon, where customers would watch content on TV, on their computers, and on their mobile phones. The other company emerging from the split will include Motorola's wireless networking business and its enterprise radio systems operations. The wireless networking business would likely be sold off, leaving the second company with its profitable enterprise radio systems business, which generated $7 billion of the company's $22 billion in sales in 2009."

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Re:Woohoo!

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If this is all the "executives" can come up with, the company is better off dead. Kill it. Kill it before the USA becomes known as the Zombie Nation.

Too late for that.

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How to cause millions of Americans to sincerely adopt a particular fashion, mannerism, or style of speech and wholeheartedly believe that this is their true nature and always has been from the moment they were born: get a popular celebrity to do it first. Then they'll passionately defend it as though it were their own idea because they have no real identity; they long ago de-emphasized such things as family and community that could have provided one. You'll be accused of failing to understand if you think there is something wrong with this or question it in any way, not that this should stop you.