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Google sells Motorola to Lenovo for 2.91 billion... Well that was quick, and it was a huge loss for Google

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They are still keeping the vast majority of the patents (15000 out of 17000), which presumably was why they bought it in the first place... And presumably some of those patents could have been a threat to google at some point (and others I would imagine have residual income streams).

Plus the $12.5 billion price tag was misleading. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/12/22/did-motorola-mobility-only-cost-google-1-5-billion/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall ... 5-billion/</a><!-- m -->