Thursday, August 18, 2011
Google Motorola Acquisition by the Numbers
Just about everybody still is trying to figure out what the Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility might mean. Coming within about a week of that event, Hewlett Packard Co. says it is getting out of the PC business, and shutting down its production and sale of WebOS smart phones and tablets. Both events will have implications for the mobility, and the only question is which move will have the bigger impact. Most of us are probably voting for the Motorola Mobility deal.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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