Rebirth of England.

Chapter 774 Motorola Mobility
As a veteran communications company, Motorola Mobility owns more than 1.7 patents and 7500 patents pending. Acquiring it will give Android Corporation sufficient "ammunition" to fight off patent infringement lawsuits filed by Apple, Microsoft and other companies against the Android mobile phone operating system.

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

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

Indeed, Baron knew that in his previous life, Google spent a total of US$128 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility. This price was a premium of 63% compared to Motorola Mobility's stock price at the time!

However, in the previous life, Google planned to acquire Motorola Mobility in August of the next year. If it were to acquire it now, the price would not be as high as US$8 billion, but no matter what, it would not be less than US$128 billion.

"In addition to being able to obtain their many patents, the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will still have many other benefits for us. In addition, it is not impossible to use some methods to share the costs."

In fact, Barron had already analyzed this matter, and after he told Ivanta about it, she was finally more moved.

First of all, when Google acquired Motorola Mobility, Motorola Mobility itself had $30 billion in cash.

This means that even if the acquisition of Motorola Mobility is completed at a price of US$128 billion, the actual capital cost required is only US$98 billion.

Besides, after acquiring Motorola Mobility, in addition to obtaining many of its patents, Android will also be able to strengthen its hardware technology, which is very important for the future hardware and software integration design of the Android system.

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

For example, in 2014, Google sold Motorola's mobile phone business (excluding patents) to Lenovo for nearly US$30 billion.

Then after Android acquired Motorola Mobility and absorbed their hardware technology, it could still do the same and sell Motorola's mobile phone business...

Moreover, Motorola Mobility also includes broadband and set-top box businesses, which O2 Telecom and SEM Group will surely be interested in, and they can be spun off and sold at that time...

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

Calculated in this way, the money that Android companies need to spend just for Motorola's technology and patents is not that much, and it is completely within their means - after all, six companies including Apple, Microsoft, and Sony spent $6 billion to purchase more than 6000 patents from Nortel Networks...

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

"At that time, you can use IC Capital to acquire Motorola Mobility, and then split it up after the acquisition is completed. Part of the business can be merged with Android, and the rest of the business can be sold..."

After this analysis, Ivanta became even more excited. She wanted to immediately form a team and start discussing 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, looking down at him and asking in a seductive tone.

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

And Ivanta took off her weapons, like a proud female knight...

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As expected of the most powerful woman in Barron, Ivanta had already left Long Island Manor early the next morning to form a team and prepare to acquire Motorola Mobility...

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

Hearing what personal assistant Zhang Junning said, Barron said without hesitation:
"I will be here soon. Just let him talk to Friedman if he has anything to say."

Although Mike Lynch is very well-known in the British technology industry and is known as the "British Bill Gates", Barron does not care about it, or does not want to have too much contact with him.

Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996. The company uses semantic computing (MBC) technology researched by Cambridge University. 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 trend 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'll feel that this company is still very powerful. More than 16000 government agencies and blue-chip companies use the powerful pattern matching algorithms in Autonomy's products to extract meaning from unstructured information.

For example, among the agencies affiliated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 21 use semantic computing technology to monitor groups suspected of terrorist activities, thereby providing a comprehensive terrorist watch list and enabling real-time notification of relevant departments when possible terrorist activities occur.

Ford Motor Company uses semantic computing technology to convert text, audio and video files in its research knowledge base to obtain meaningful reference materials for its more than 15 employees to view - with the help of these materials, employees can understand new projects launched by the company more quickly.

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

Of course, as a well-known British technology company, Barron's fund has also invested in this company - Digital Future Investment Company under Caesar Fund holds approximately 25% of Autonomy's shares. They spent less than US$5 million in total to acquire these shares.

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

(End of this chapter)