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Google agreed to sell its Motorola Mobility subsidiary to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. The deal will require approval from U.S. and Chinese regulators.
Google, which acquired Motorola Mobility in April 2011 for $12.5 billion, said it will retain the majority of Motorola’s patents in order to defend the Android ecosystem. The sale of Motorola enables Google to ensure a more level playing field for Android.
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
