Motorola formally splits

[powerlineman]

Motorola formally splits; companies begin trading - Yahoo! Finance

 

[ab3a]

Interesting. This is quite a reversal. How many times have we seen the Wall Street Financiers tell us that combining two companies would create new "synergies" and other such balderdash.

Here we have a company being split up to make it leaner, more responsive, and to reduce bureaucratic costs.

 

[TrenchFeeder]

Could mean bad things for scanning if one company is doing Civillian and one is doing Profesionals

 

[OpSec]

So one will make overpriced cell phones, and the other will make overpriced radio systems...got it.

 

[kb2vxa]

Apparently the Chinese government discovered a conflict of interest and mandated cell phone divestiture or face getting kicked back to the States and high labor costs.