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Google’s Motorola Mobility acquisition includes Horsham manufacturing plant

As the Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano reported this morning, Google’s newly announced acquisition of Motorola Mobility, an attempt to gain more control over Android device manufacturing (a move that a long-running rumor), includes a Horsham-based Moto plant that manufactures set-top boxes. That’s a play for Google TV, too, in addition to the acquisition of thousands of […]

At Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif. (Courtesy photo)

As the Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano reported this morning, Google’s newly announced acquisition of Motorola Mobility, an attempt to gain more control over Android device manufacturing (a move that a long-running rumor), includes a Horsham-based Moto plant that manufactures set-top boxes. That’s a play for Google TV, too, in addition to the acquisition of thousands of patents held by Motorola Mobility.
DiStefano says:

Search-engine giant Google is entering the hardware business with its biggest-ever acquisition, joining 20,000 workers at Motorola’s factories, to its current workforce of nearly 30,000. The Horsham business, Motorola Home, accounts for about a third of the company’s annual sales.

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