谷歌并購摩托羅拉內幕：意向買家大有人在
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????多位知情人士向《財富》雜志（Fortune）透露，谷歌（Google）并不是唯一一家有意收購摩托羅拉移動公司（Motorola Mobility Solutions）的公司。這家搜索巨頭周一同意以125億美元的價格收購摩托羅拉移動，但拒絕透露它是否參與了競價過程。 ????一位知情人士表示：“摩托羅拉移動公司所聘請的投資銀行（高科技投行Quatalyst Partners和并購咨詢公司Centerview Partners）也邀請了其他買家，以便一探深淺。我不知道他們是不是真的有興趣收購，或者只是作為掩護競拍協議（stalking horse）的參與者來推高收購價格。” ????迄今為止還沒有哪個買家獲得確認，不過猜測都指向了惠普公司（HP）和戴爾公司（Dell）。【最新消息：歐姆?馬利克（科技資訊網站GigaOm創始人兼高級撰稿人——譯注）報道稱微軟公司（Microsoft）也牽涉其中。】同樣不清楚的是，除了谷歌公司，是否還有其他公司正式提出過收購摩托羅拉移動公司。 ????一切內情很快會在提交給監管部門的文件中獲得澄清，但在等待真相揭曉前，不妨迅速做個猜測： ????是否有可能是谷歌公司自己考慮與第三方公司合作？我聽說谷歌的談判涉及不同的策略，我懷疑其中一個是否是谷歌公司收購摩托羅拉移動公司的專利而由其他公司來收購硬件（加上長期授權協議）。畢竟，要一口吞下HTC公司這樣的Android原始設備制造商還比較困難，同時，三星公司（Samsung）對谷歌公司與自己開展有效競爭的計劃也處之泰然（不管谷歌公司周一早上在官方聲明中的說法如何）。 ????譯者：清遠 |
????Google (GOOG) was not the only company that discussed an acquisition of Motorola Mobility Solutions (MMI), multiple sources tell Fortune. The search giant earlier today agreed to buy MMI for $12.5 billion, but declined to say whether or not it had been a competitive process. ????"Motorola Mobility's bankers [Quatalyst Partners and Centerview Partners] brought some other folks in to kick the tires," one source says. "I don't know if they had serious interest, or if it was just a stalking horse to drive up the price." ????No suitors have yet been identified, although speculation has centered on HP and Dell. [Update: Om Malik is reporting that Microsoft was involved.] It also is unclear if anyone other than Google made a formal offer to buy MMI. ????All of this should be sorted out soon in regulatory filings, but a quick piece of idle speculation while we wait: ????Is it possible that Google itself considered working with a third party? I hear that its negotiations involved several different machinations, and wonder if one was that Google would buy MMI's patents and someone else would buy the hardware (plus a long-term licensing agreement). After all, it still is hard to swallow that Android OEMs like HTC and Samsung are really okay with Google's new plan to effectively compete with itself (no matter what they said this morning in official statements). |
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