Today's news can be safely attributed to the category of unexpected and unusual. It became known that Google Inc. absorbed the former division Motoroladealing with mobile phones Motorola Mobility.
The cost of the deal will be $12.5 billion, that is, $40 per share. The deal is expected to be fully completed by early next year.
The goal pursued Google – obtaining production facilities for the production of their own variations of smartphones based on Androidwithout resorting to third party services. At the same time, the brand Motorola will be saved. It has also already been stated that the deal will in no way affect the terms of distribution Android, which will still be available to everyone.
This deal, oddly enough, had a positive impact on the shares of another smartphone manufacturer - the Finnish company Nokia, whose shares rose significantly for the first time in a long time. The reason for this is that too many analysts have recently doubted a cloudless future. Android.