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Google sells Motorola Mobility unit to Lenovo for $3bn

By BBC | 12yrs ago

Google has sold struggling US mobile phone company Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91bn (£1.8bn), in a surprise move.

Google had paid $12.5bn for the company less than two years ago.

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