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Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal
SmartAboutThings writes If somehow you missed the reports of Lenovo buying Motorola – which was also bought by Google for $12.5 billion back in 2011 – then you should know that the deal is now complete. Lenovo has announced today that Motorola is now a Lenovo company — which makes Lenovo not only the number one PC maker in the world but also the third-largest smartphone maker.
Nope. The Motorola that made RF equipment (CATV, Radios, etc) was spun off by Google to a company known as Arris (the Arris Group).
Not quite. There are two separate businesses. The business that made cable TV equipment was sold to Arris. The police radios business is still called Motorola Solutions, and it's a standalone company (ticker MSI).
Actually, that's just the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions. Motorola Solutions continues to run the public safety business (i.e. police radios).
Nah, Lenovo will buy Blackberry next, merge the companies, release a bunch of "Motoberry", "Blackrola", "Lenberry", "Blackovo" phones, end up selling the merged company back to Google who randomly decides they want back into the handset market when their hairband fails. Google then strip out all identity left in the phones that made them stand out when they release the Google M1 and Google B1. They both under perform because Android is a hot mess at this point and Google is facing so much regulatory gridlock and competition from ISPs who've now become the social media barons and are degrading Google's services and giving priority to their own. Then some jackass decides he wants to set off a nuke using a drone which accidentally triggers NuclearResponse AI (Google beta) and the world ends up in a nuclear winter. Centuries later as mankind begins to spread again, the source code is discovered and found to have a bug in it caused by a backdoor that was added by the NSA so they would know who was operating the system. Mankind never could figure out why the NSA was trying to spy on an AI.
Williams experimented with arcade games
If you can call Defender and Stargate, experiments. That's more like an NFL player retiring, starting up a golf career and winning the PGA tour his first year of playing golf.
Midway eventually got the rights to Atari's arcade titles....Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy was one of those Blew my mind to hear Sumner say "Midway Games" instead of seeing the proper Atari logo.
having decided to shut down their pinball division instead of either suspending or spinning it off.
That's sad. Does Stern still make pinball? (Googles) YES, yes they do!
You know.. Bally, Midway, Williams and Stern....were all based in Chicago.