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No matter how dismal Motorola’s handset manufacturing business might have done, the higher-ups at Moto could always comfort themselves in knowing that Motorola was still king-of-the-hill on its home turf. Motorola has been riding the top of the US handset charts for years now, grabbing US cellphone...
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Ow. Motorola’s third quarter numbers are pretty rough, reporting $7.48 billion in sales, down nearly $400 million from a $8 billion in Q2. Although mobile devices in particular were down 31% from last year to $3.1 billion, Moto has the Krave and Aura to help them out for the holidays, and potentially...
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Chalk up another executive departure for Motorola. The embattled handset manufacturer has seen more than its fair share of executive defections of late, and it doesn’t look like things are getting any better. With new handset division CEO Sanjay Jha taking the reigns of the company’s cellphone...
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Time and time again we’re seeing the mobile phone sector brushing off the harsh economic pressures that are affecting just about every other business in the world. And, following on previous reports that worldwide smartphone sales were seeing a bit of an uptick in sales volume, a new report from...
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Think cellphone radiation can cause cancer, hearing loss, and other adverse health effects? You’re not alone. A California man has taken his cellphone radiation health concerns to court, and the lawsuit has been transferred to the federal level. Michael R. Bennett filed suit against T-Mobile, Motorola...
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08-06-2008
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Filed under: Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile, cellphone radiation, radiation, Announcements, tmobile, financial, t mobile, tmo, t mo, mobile phone radiation, health effects
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There’s no doubt that Motorola’s handset manufacturing business is on the ropes. Following on quarter after quarter of multi-million dollar losses and sliding global market share, Motorola has been trying to shore up its mobile phone division in an effort to gussy it up for a potential investor...
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Motorola just can't seem to catch a break these days. With their handset business fighting hard to keep from being sucked down the drain, Motorola needs all the help it can get to keep from being banished to mobile phone oblivion. The firm has seen a significant churn rate in its executive management...
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07-20-2008
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Filed under: Motorola, Apple, iPhone, moto, lawsuit, executive, Announcements, financial, resignation, non competition, jump ship
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There really aren't words to describe Motorola's fall from glory. Perhaps words like spectacular, incredible, amazing were apt descriptions of Motorola's once giant-footprint on the global wireless stage. But, today, those same words could be used to describe the company's almost...
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What's a struggling mobile phone manufacturer that just can't seem to reclaim its once-glory in the mobile industry left to do after repeated quarters of miserable performance? Cut more jobs, of course. In another move to help stave off mounting losses from its handset business, Motorola has...
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06-12-2008
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Filed under: Motorola, moto, Announcements, layoffs, employees, financial, firing, fire, layed off, motorola labs, jobs cuts
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Not that we blame him for leaving, but the last thing Motorola needed was to have its Chief Technology Officer up and leave for greener pastures. Motorola CTO Richard Nottenburg has apparently called it quits on the company that bumped him up to the CTO post following previous Motorola CTO Warrior's...
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Motorola and Carl Icahn have made nice and the beleaguered handset manufacturing once-giant can return to trying to save the company from a slow death. The latest move to help right the horribly listing ship that is Motorola is the appointment of a new Chairman of the Board. Ousted CEO Ed Zander has...
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Ahh, Motorola. They've (by which I mean the senior leadership, or lack thereof) failed Motorola and its fans in so many ways, its hard to keep track. But, not impossible. The flagrant failure of ousted CEO-tard Zander to keep Motorola from circling the drain is obvious at this point. Zander wasn't...