This should be entertaining.

[theweaselking]

Google buys Motorola.

(Actually "just" Motorola Mobile - their entire handheld division - but still!)

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[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

It's also interesting from a local's point of view -- when Motorola Mobile was spun off of Motorola, there was speculation as to whether it would leave the state (Illinois) and locate elsewhere.

Google, as it happens, has a presence in Chicago. Not as large as Mountain View, of course, and that doesn't mean it couldn't still relocate. But at the moment I'm feeling a little better.

(Note: I haven't done anything for Motorola since the early nineties, so it doesn't affect me directly, but I have friends who'd be affected by the move.)