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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Moto splits up
The Razr just isn’t as sharp as it used to be.
Motorola Inc. announced today that it is splitting its company in two, separating its mobile handset division that makes the Razr and all those other cellular handsets from the rest of its business of television set-top boxes, broadband equipment and other devices.
The move comes as Moto is under pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn to do something to improve its stock price. Icahn, who owns about 6 percent of the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company’s shares, sued Moto earlier this week to get documents in what could prelude to a proxy fight.
Four years ago, Motorola went through a similar divestiture, spinning off its semiconductor business. Today, that business is Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor.
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Google offers search-within-a-search function, wants TV white space
In its quest to take over the digital world, Google has begun a search-within-a-search function that will bring up sites for competing companies in secondary searches.
The change has the effect of continuing a search, thereby moving additional advertising revenue to Google from those searches. But it also may take the user off the original site.
Separately, Google is again pushing the use of unlicensed, unused airwaves known as TV “white space” for more widespead, affordable use of the Internet, the New York Times says.
Both of these ideas seems good for users. Greater search options in the first instance and more broadband access in the second. But both also offer greater revenue for Google, so let’s not give the Internet-search giant too much credit for thinking of its users first.