Motorola Mobility, the company that supposedly Google is taken over, is going to eight hundred employees to lay off. The layoff the company 31 million dollars, but Motorola denies that the acquisition plays a role.
That reports news agency Bloomberg, on the basis of documents that Motorola has filed with the Us Securities and Exchange Commission. The supervisor has approved the plans. For the removal of eight hundred jobs in Motorola Mobility 27 million dollars in direct costs for the current quarter, booked, in addition to 4 million dollars for the closing of businesses.
Motorola Mobility is, if the regulators the green light to give, by Google acquired. The search giant has $ 12.5 billion for the manufacturer of mobile phones. Google is particularly interested in the patentportfolio of Motorola in order to better protect ourselves against potential patent claims from other companies. A spokesman for Motorola denies, however, that the redundancies are a result of the impending acquisition according to the company is the remediation necessary to meet the costs to print. Ultimately, this must be the financial position of the still loss-making Motorola improve.