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Google reiterates its intent to keep Motorola autonomous, with "its own battlefield"

Jun 22, 2012, 9:17 AM

Daniel P.

Google reiterates its intent to keep Motorola autonomous with "its own battlefield"

Google's CFO Patrick Pichette reiterated once again at a meeting with shareholders that the company intends to keep Motorola's operations autonomous, with no deeper integration with Google planned.

Eric Schmidt chimed in: "We bought Motorola for the sum of the patents, the products, the people, the innovation", while Patrick Pichette said:

It's important [Motorola] stays on its own battlefield. We are not integrating Motorola with Google, we're making sure it has everything it needs to win in its own space. You shouldn't expect a full integration of the two companies. [Motorola has] fantastic assets that need to be reset, reprioritized... and in that context think of Google in a way taking Motorola private.

via Yahoo!News