Motorola

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This article is about the original company prior to its split in 2011. For the present-day companies of this name, see Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions . For other uses, see Motorola (disambiguation) .
Motorola, Inc.
Formerly Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (1928?1947)
Company type Public
Industry Telecommunications
Founded September 25, 1928 ; 95 years ago  ( 1928-09-25 )
Founders
Defunct January 4, 2011 ; 13 years ago  ( 2011-01-04 )
Fate Split into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions
Successors Motorola Mobility
Motorola Solutions
Freescale Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor
Arris Group ( General Instrument )
Cambium Networks
Headquarters Schaumburg, Illinois , U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Products Tablet computers
Mobile phones
Smartphones
Two-way radios
Networking systems
Cable television systems
Wireless broadband networks
RFID systems
Mobile telephone infrastructure
Number of employees
53,000 (2010) [1]
Divisions Mobile Devices
Home & Networks Mobility
Enterprise Mobility Solutions
Website www.motorola.com (archived December 31, 2010)

Motorola was an American company that made cell phones and other electronics . The company was based in Schaumburg, Illinois , a small town just outside of Chicago , Illinois . After losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, Motorola was divided in two separate companies on January 4, 2011; Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. [2] [3]

They were listed in the New York Stock Exchange as MOT Archived 2013-09-22 at the Wayback Machine . [4]

The company began with the name Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928, and then later adopted the 'Motorola' name in 1947. They were the first developers of the walkie-talkie in World War II .

On August 15, 2011, Google said that it would buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. [5] [6] [7]

On October 30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google . [8] [9]

References [ change | change source ]

  1. ↑ "2009 Annual Report, Motorola Inc" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on May 16, 2021 . Retrieved April 6, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Ante, Spencer E. (January 5, 2011). "Motorola Is Split Into Two" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved January 4, 2011 .
  3. ↑ "Motorola To Officially Split Into Two Companies" . The Huffington Post . Retrieved October 18, 2015 .
  4. ↑ "Motopia Ltd: ASX:MOT quotes & news - Google Finance" . www.google.com . Retrieved October 18, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Tsukayama, Hayley (August 15, 2011). "Google agrees to acquire Motorola Mobility" . The Washington Post . Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
  6. ↑ "Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility" (Press release). August 15, 2011 . Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Bradshaw, Timothy ‘Tim’ (August 15, 2011). "Google buys Motorola mobile phone division" . Financial Times . Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
  8. ↑ "Hello Moto" . Lenovo. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014 . Retrieved October 30, 2014 .
  9. ↑ "Lenovo Completes Motorola Acquisition" . The Wall Street Journal . October 30, 2014 . Retrieved October 30, 2014 .


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