Google buys HTC's smartphone brains for $1.1 billion to bolster its hardware push
from PC world 21 September indexed on 21 September 2017 16:01Nearly four years after selling Motorola off to Lenovo, Google is buying into yet another longtime Android partner. But instead of purchasing HTC outright, Google is buying its brains. “A team of HTC talent will join Google as part of the hardware organization,” Google hardware SVP (and former Motorola president) Rick Osterloh said Thursday. “These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we've already been working with closely on the Pixel smartphone line, and we're excited to see what we can do together as one team.” Google also gets non-exclusive rights to HTC intellectual property as part of the deal. Somewhat surprisingly, the agreement doesn't appear to include access to HTC's manufacturing capabilities. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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