Chapter 774 Motorola Mobility

As an established communications company, Motorola Mobility owns more than 17,000 patents and 7,500 pending patents. Its acquisition will give Android companies sufficient ammunition to repel Apple, Microsoft and other companies' attempts to launch Android mobile operating systems. patent infringement litigation.

Hearing Barron's words, Ivanta's eyes lit up and she said:

"Indeed, if we can acquire Motorola's mobile department, we can completely enrich our patent library and not be afraid of anti-competitive threats from companies like Microsoft and Apple... But although Motorola's mobile phone department has been losing money, if If you want to buy it, I’m afraid there will be a considerable premium.”

Indeed, Barron knew that in his previous life, Google spent a total of US$12.8 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility. This price represented a premium of as much as 63% compared to the stock price of Motorola Mobility at the time!

However, in the previous life, Google acquired Motorola Mobility in August next year. If it were to acquire it now, it should not reach a price as high as US$12.8 billion, but no matter what, it would not be lower than $10 billion.

"In addition to being able to obtain many of their patents, acquiring Motorola Mobility can still have many other benefits for us. In addition, it does not mean that we cannot use some methods to share costs."

In fact, Barron had already analyzed this matter. After he told Ivanta, she finally became more interested.

First of all, when Google acquired Motorola Mobility, Motorola Mobility itself had $3 billion in cash.

This means that even if the acquisition of Motorola Mobility is completed at a price of US$12.8 billion, the actual capital cost required is only US$9.8 billion.

Besides, after Android Company acquired Motorola Mobility, in addition to obtaining many of its patents, it was also able to strengthen Android Company's technical level in hardware, which is very important for the future integrated design of software and hardware of Android systems. of.

In addition, in terms of mobile phone brands, although Barron does not care about Motorola, many companies are still interested.

For example, Google sold Motorola's mobile phone business (excluding patents) to Lenovo for nearly US$3 billion in 2014.

So after Android Company acquires Motorola Mobility and absorbs their hardware technology, it can still do the same and sell Motorola's mobile phone business...

Moreover, Motorola Mobility also includes broadband and set-top box businesses. O2 Telecom and SEM Group will probably be interested in this part of the business, and it can be split and sold...

Motorola Mobility's strong position in home devices and video solutions will benefit SEM Group by strengthening its set-top box business in the UK, North America and other markets.

Calculated in this way, the amount of money Android companies need to spend purely for Motorola's technology and patents is not that much, and it is completely within the amount they can afford - after all, 6 companies, including Apple, Microsoft, and Sony, purchased North More than 6,000 patents on electronic networks cost US$4.5 billion...

What's more, the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will be very beneficial to the tablet computer market of Android companies. Currently, the Android system is difficult to compete with Apple's iPad in this market. Although Honor Electronics has tablet computer products, it is still far behind the iPad in terms of sales. Motorola still has a certain reputation in this market.

"At that time, you can use the name of IC Capital to acquire Motorola Mobility, and then after the acquisition is completed, spin it off, merge some businesses with Android Company, and other businesses can be sold..."

After such analysis, Ivanta became more and more excited. She couldn't wait to start forming a team immediately and start negotiating the acquisition with Motorola...

Of course, before that...

"How are you going to repay me, baby?"

"What do you think? Your Highness the Duke..."

Ivanta's charming figure sat on Barron's lap, asking condescendingly and seductively.

The temperature in the room immediately began to rise to scorching hot...

Ivanta, on the other hand, took off her armor and looked like a proud female knight...

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As expected of the most powerful of the Barron women, Ivanta had already left Long Island Manor early the next morning to form a team to prepare for the acquisition of Motorola Mobility...

"Your Highness, news from London, Mr. Mike Lynch called to ask when you will return to England. He hopes to meet you..."

After hearing the words of personal assistant Zhang Junning, Barron said without hesitation:

"I will be here recently, just let him talk to Friedman about something."

Although Mike Lynch is still very well-known in the British technology industry and is known as the "Bill Gates of Britain", Barron doesn't care about this, or in other words, he doesn't want to have much contact with him. .

Mike Lynch is at 1y Company, which uses Semantic Computing (MBC) technology researched by the University of Cambridge. It is a British technology company that provides high-end search engine software to enterprises.

After experiencing the Internet bubble at the turn of the century, Autonomy also entered the American market, acquired three American companies, and became one of the few British technology companies to grow against the market during the financial crisis.

Some even claim that Autonomy’s intelligent search engine software may challenge Google’s dominance in this field in the future.

If you look at Autonomy's user directory, you will feel that this company is still very impressive. More than 16,000 government agencies and blue-chip companies have used the powerful pattern matching algorithms in Autonomy products and extracted the meaning from unstructured information through them. .

For example, 21 agencies affiliated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security use semantic computing technology to monitor groups suspected of terrorist activities, thereby providing a comprehensive terrorist watch list and realizing possible terrorist activities in the future. Notify relevant departments in real time.

Ford Motor Company is using semantic computing to transform text, audio, and video files in its research knowledge base into meaningful reference materials for its more than 150,000 employees to view. Be able to learn about new projects launched by the company more quickly.

Other companies using and benefiting from semantic computing-based technologies include: BAE Systems, Boeing, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Shell, AOL, BBC, Reuters, Ericsson, Philips, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Lloyds TSB , GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Nomura Securities and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…

Of course, as a well-known British technology company, Barron's funds have also invested in this company - the Digital Future Investment Company under Caesars Fund holds about 25% of Autonomy's shares. They spent a total of only 100% to acquire these shares. Less than $500 million.

This is why Barron said that Caesar Fund CEO Pat Friedman would contact the other party...