The other day, we told you that the lone hold out, China, had finally approved Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility. An 8-K SEC form filed by Motorola says the deal will close in two days. Now comes word from Tech Crunch that they have been told by a source that a "listening tour" comes next with Google's big wigs flying out to Motorola Mobility's factories and offices to see what everyone does and then making decisions.
Dennis Woodside could be Motorola Mobility's next CEO
According to the same source for Tech Crunch, it sounds like Google has already decided what to do with some of MM's employees as layoffs are supposedly set to occur "imminently". How many Motorola Mobility employees will be getting a pink slip is unknown, but when Google purchased the much smaller DoubleClick, it cut headcount by 40%. Motorola Mobility had 19,000 employees when Google announced the deal (DoubleClick only had 1,600) and had already laid off 800 people last October in a move totally unrelated to the Google purchase. According to Motorola Mobility, the layoffs were part of a wider restructuring.
With Motorola Mobility Sanjay Jha stepping down once the deal closes, Google is expected to replace him with Dennis Woodside. The Mountain View based firm had put Woodside in charge of the merger and it would make sense to have him take over from Jha. Google has said that it wants Motorola Mobility to be independent from its own operations which shouldn't be too hard to do considering that the main impetus to make the deal was to acquire Motorola Mobility's 17,000 patents, regardless of what Eric Schmidt has said.
Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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