{"id":13456,"date":"2012-05-24T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2012-05-24T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:08:01","slug":"googles-motorola-acquisition-has-no-affect-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/13456\/googles-motorola-acquisition-has-no-affect-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Motorola acquisition has no affect in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1719-Google\">Google<\/a> completed its $12.5 billion (USD) purchase of <a title=\"Motorola Mobility\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1716-Motorola-Mobility\">Motorola Mobility<\/a> after the deal received approval from the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Former president of Google\u2019s Americas region, <a title=\"Dennis Woodside\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2969-Dennis-Woodside\">Dennis Woodside<\/a>, took the helm at Motorola with former chief executive <a title=\"Sanjay Jha\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2240-Sanjay-Jha\">Sanjay Jha<\/a> stepping aside.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what impact the deal would have on the South African operations of the two companies, both Google and Motorola indicated that it would be business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no changes to announce,\u201d Motorola told MyBroadband. \u201cMotorola Mobility is owned by Google but will keep its operations separate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"related\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google seals Motorola deal, names new CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/50735-google-seals-motorola-deal-names-new-ceo.html\"><strong>Google seals Motorola deal, names new CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google gets approval to buy Motorola\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/50545-google-gets-approval-to-buy-motorola.html\"><strong>Google gets approval to buy Motorola<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Motorola loses to Microsoft in ITC ruling\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/50579-motorola-loses-to-microsoft-in-itc-ruling.html\"><strong>Motorola loses to Microsoft in ITC ruling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Windows 7, Xbox 360 banned in Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/49027-microsoft-windows-7-xbox-360-banned-in-germany.html\"><strong>Microsoft Windows 7, Xbox 360 banned in Germany<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s acquisition of Motorola to leave SA operations untouched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,2899,53,295,1126,2488],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-dennis-woodside","tag-google","tag-motorola","tag-motorola-mobility","tag-sanjay-jha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13472,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/13472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}