Dell Snags Motorola Mobile Phone Chief
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Dell has hired the former head of Motorola's cell phone division to head its new global consumer division beginning on Monday. Ron Garriques will resign immediately from the cell phone manufacturer.
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Motorola, the world&#39;s second largest mobile phone maker, is cutting 1,000 jobs although its core cellphone business will be unaffected.
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New Motorola Inc. CEO Greg Brown doesn't have the secret weapon his predecessor Ed Zander possessed when he arrived at the cell phone maker four years ago Â the Razr. But that could be a good thing Â if Brown, who took over Tuesday as chief executive, applies lessons learned from Motorola's nasty fall last year.
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Motorola Inc. , the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, agreed to buy Symbol Technologies Inc. for $3.9 billion to expand into the market for handheld retail bar-code scanners.
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Japanese mobile phone company DoCoMo is in talks to buy 3G handsets from Motorola, the world's second largest handset maker.
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Dell inc. said its former CEO Michael Dell is stepping back into that position, immediately replacing Kevin Rollins.
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InfoWorld - Motorola may spin off its handset business, the weakest part of a wireless giant that has seen hard times and a management shakeup in recent months.
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Japanese mobile phone firm DoCoMo is in talks to buy 3G handsets from Motorola.
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Hit hard by slowing cell-phone sales, Motorola names a new mobile chief, splits into three divisions.
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Motorola is completing a spinoff of its chip operations, now operating independently as Freescale Semiconductor. A Motorola spokeswoman says that has made some corporate positions unnecessary.
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The company says it will take a charge of 50 (m) million dollars for severance benefits. Motorola is completing a spinoff of its Austin-based chip operations, now operating independently as Freescale Semiconductor.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service Soundbuzz  as it looks to stem recent market share losses.
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Sell it or spin it off? Motorola is considering various options to sort out its mobile phone division which lost the company $1.2bn in 2007.â¦
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Beep beep beep - $4bn please Motorola is acquiring industrial mobile-device specialist Symbol in a cash deal worth almost $4bn.â¦
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Freescale Semiconductor Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer will leave his posts as soon as a replacement is found, the company said Friday.&quot;The time is right for me and my family to take some time off before exploring new challenges. The company is well positioned to continue its transformation,&quot; Mayer said in a statement.Freescale officials didn&#39;t respond to requests for comment.Mayer led the company when it spun off from Motorola&#39;s semiconductor group and went public in 2004. He also played a role in Freescale&#39;s buyout by four private equity firms in 2006 for $17.6 billion. The equity firms included The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Permira Funds and Texas Pacific Group.However, the company has been struggling financially, posting a loss of $525 million on sales of $1.54 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007. For 2007, the company reported a loss of $1.6 billion on net sales of $5.7 billion. Freescale&#39;s sales totaled $6.36 billion in 2006.The company&#39;s key customer remains Motorola, to which it sells chips for wireless handsets, networking infrastructure and other devices such as set-top boxes. Motorola, which is struggling financially and saw a management shakeup in recent months, is considering spinning off its handset business. Ed Zander announced in December that he would step down as Motorola&#39;s CEO.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2004 (REUTERS) - Telecommunications equipment maker Motorola Inc. said today that it would cut 1,000 jobs and take related charges of about $50 million to focus on its wireless business.
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Motorola, the world's second largest mobile phone maker, is cutting 1% of its workforce but its core mobile phone operations will be unaffected.