Google recently spent $12.5 billion dollars acquiring Motorola. Monday, the company known primarily as an Internet search engine announced it would be closing about one third of the 90 former Motorola facilities, and fire about 4,000 workers. That’s business.
What Google really wanted was the nearly 20,000 patents Motorola owned – heavy weaponry in the field of mobile communications, in which it seems everyone is suing everyone else – Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and others – over who actually invented the latest piece of technology, or even the way a switch moves up or down to select a function.