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Motorola Inc. on Tuesday announced a $3.6 billion fourth-quarter loss, the suspension of its quarterly dividend and the departure of CFO Paul Liska after only a year on the job. The trifecta of unsettling news set off a new round of speculation about the future of the Illinois mobile phone...
Posted on February 3, 2009 3:33 PM
A decision by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Motorola Inc. to support a leading open-source mobile platform project has undermined a joint venture owned by the companies. UIQ Technology, which became jointly owned by Sony Ericsson and Motorola in October 2007, filed for bankruptcy in Sweden on Monday. The...
Posted on January 5, 2009 11:30 AM
Microsoft Corp. has hired Simon Leung (pictured) as chief executive of its greater China region. The former Motorola Inc. executive will be responsible for strategy and growth across all of Microsoft's China businesses. He replaces Ya-Qin Zhang, who will serve as chairman of the China research and development group. As...
Posted on November 14, 2008 11:12 AM
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s announcement Thursday that it will "rejuvenate" its beleaguered integrated digital enhanced network is another way of saying the company is not selling the wireless systems it obtained from its $35 billion merger with Nextel.The million-dollar question for Sprint Nextel's president of strategic planning and corporate initiatives...
Posted on October 31, 2008 1:23 PM
Sprint Nextel Corp. more than stumbled integrating Nextel's iDEN network after their merger. And CEO Dan Hesse has said he would consider a "compelling" offer for iDEN. However, Sprint now says after careful review of the business, it will "retain and rejuvenate this important asset." As part of this...
Posted on October 31, 2008 12:02 PM
France's Safran is diving deeper into U.S. homeland security with its purchase of cell-phone maker Motorola Inc.'s biometrics business. Motorola is cutting the fat in advance of its plans to split into two independent, publicly traded companies. The company will separate its weak mobile-phone business (which hasn't had a big...
Posted on October 15, 2008 9:48 AM
The firm develops/commercializes broadband telecom products and services for vehicles, and it's poised for dealmaking. Interestingly, though, USTelematics Inc. didn't make a traditional corporate development role, instead adding a senior adviser, George Lauro, to its board to handle strategic alliances and capital structuring. The rocket scientist (yeah, really) has quite...
Posted on June 27, 2008 12:40 PM
Indian IT giant Wipro Technologies is buying out its joint venture partner Motorola Inc. for an undisclosed amount after just two years. The companies formed WMNetServ in July 2006 to deliver outsourced services to telecom operators, and enterprise and government customers. The deal allowed Wipro to enter a new telecom...
Posted on June 17, 2008 11:10 AM
Sarosh Vesuna has joined wireless infrastructure provider Meru Networks as vice president of business development, reporting to Meru CEO Ihab Abu-Hakima. Vesuna, who co-wrote the IEEE 802.11 protocol standard, hails from Motorola Inc., where he was senior director of strategy and biz dev for the wireless LAN business, overseeing...
Posted on May 13, 2008 3:39 PM
There was an intriguing tidbit in the upbeat results that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. reported Wednesday: In the fiscal quarter just ended (which saw revenue surge 102% above the same period a year ago), the company also spent $310 million acquiring intangible assets. What did they buy? No...
Posted on April 3, 2008 4:36 PM
Who should they hire? Silicon Alley Insider nominates Ron Garriques, now of Dell, who ran it once before; Todd Bradley of HP, formerly of Palm; and several others....
Posted on March 27, 2008 3:39 PM
Motorola Inc. is spinning off its mobile-phone business from its broadband business in 2009, forming two independent, publicly traded companies. Crucial questions: Which part gets the valuable Motorola brand, and under what terms? In announcing the move Wednesday, CEO Greg Brown said the issue was still to be decided. According...
Posted on March 27, 2008 1:57 PM
Motorola Inc. chief executive Greg Brown's strategy to separate the company's handset and network equipment businesses into two distinct corporations may for a while at least appease shareholders -- like, say Carl Icahn -- who have been agitating for change. But breaking a company...
Posted on March 26, 2008 1:18 PM
Greg Brown, Motorola Inc.'s president and CEO, said the firm would create two independent, publicly traded companies as part of a strategic realignment (started on Jan. 31) of its mobile devices and broadband and mobility solutions businesses. Moto, which has yet to name a new CEO, said the separation will...
Posted on March 26, 2008 9:07 AM
The lawsuits flying between Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. offer up yet another example of just how tenuous the relationship between licensee and licensor can be, particularly in the technology industry, where a single product might be underpinned by technology from multiple companies (check out this Corporate...
Posted on February 19, 2008 3:47 PM
It was surprising to see in the The Wall Street Journal Monday morning that Motorola Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. are reportedly contemplating a joint venture to combine their wireless infrastructure units. While the companies hope the venture will bolster their businesses as the telecom equipment...
Posted on February 11, 2008 11:27 AM
Michel Mayer, chairman and CEO of Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor Inc., has decided to step down. Mayer (pictured) joined the firm in 2004 and navigated the transition from being a Motorola Inc. division to a public company that summer. Two years later, he was leading the company through the...
Posted on February 8, 2008 3:22 PM
Motorola Inc.'s chief dealmaker Donald McLellan has plenty on his plate. Not only is Carl Icahn circling with four board nominees, speculation continues about what Motorola will do with its flagging cell-phone division since the company announced last week it was considering options. After initial reports focused on a possible...
Posted on February 6, 2008 11:35 AM
Motorola Inc. said its CEO Greg Brown is stepping in to take direct control of the mobile-device business from Stu Reed, who had been running the unit only since last summer. Reed will remain with the company. Motorola previously announced it is considering a restructuring of the troubled business...
Posted on February 4, 2008 6:09 PM
If there's a "strategic suggestions" box at the headquarters of Motorola Inc., it's filling up fast, but not necessarily with well considered ideas.
Posted on January 29, 2008 4:50 PM
They can smooth the path to market for complex technologies, but they do entail some loss of control for licensors.
Posted on October 15, 2007 9:05 AM
Team WiMax (from Corporate Dealmaker)
If this technology fails to deliver mobile broadband internet access, it won't be for lack of companies working together to make it happen.
Posted on April 15, 2007 7:11 AM
The potentially disruptive technologies may be a decade or more in the future. But Xerox is exploring them through strategic R&D collaborations.
Posted on February 15, 2006 4:05 PM
R&D collaborations with Chinese universities used to feature a lot more development than research, but that's changing fast.
Posted on June 15, 2005 5:52 PM
Five years after the bubble, it's coming back. Financial returns still matter at most companies - but strategic objectives matter more.
Posted on April 15, 2005 5:30 PM
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