{"id":13124,"date":"2012-05-22T01:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13124"},"modified":"2012-05-22T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:16:36","slug":"google-to-seal-motorola-deal-by-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/13124\/google-to-seal-motorola-deal-by-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to seal Motorola deal by Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1719-Google\">Google<\/a> is planning to complete its $12.5 billion acquisition of cell phone maker <a title=\"Motorola Mobility Holdings\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1716-Motorola-Mobility\">Motorola Mobility Holdings<\/a> before Wednesday (23 May 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Motorola outlined the timetable in documents it filed Monday following Saturday&#8217;s approval of the deal by regulators in China. That approval removed the final hurdle preventing Google from closing the biggest deal in its 14-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies announced the deal nine months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc. prizes Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for its portfolio of more than 17,000 patents.<\/p>\n<p>Owning the rights to those patents will provide Google and the mobile device makers who rely on its <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1754-Android\">Android<\/a> software with valuable weapons in an intellectual arms race with <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1648-Apple\">Apple Inc.<\/a>, <a title=\"Microsoft Corp.\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1715-Microsoft\">Microsoft Corp.<\/a> and other technology giants.<\/p>\n<p>But investors are worried Motorola&#8217;s business making phones will trim Google&#8217;s profit margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is planning to complete its $12.5 billion acquisition of cell phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings before Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,53,1126],"class_list":["post-13124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-google","tag-motorola-mobility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13187,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions\/13187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}