????周一上午，谷歌公司（Google）宣布以125億美元的現金收購摩托羅拉移動公司（Motorola Mobility Solutions）。這不僅意味著后者40美元的股價溢價63%（真遺憾，這就是摩托羅拉公司低矮的股價），也標志著谷歌志在必得，誓要利用Android系統從蘋果公司（Apple）的手機市場份額中分得更大一杯羹。
????據湯森路透（Thomson Reuters）報道，2011年截至目前為止，這筆交易的金額排在第11位。它也有望成為本年度全球“高科技”領域中最大的一筆交易，超過微軟公司（Microsoft）對Skype 85億美元的收購規模。如果歸入電信業，這筆交易僅次于美國電話電報公司（AT&T）對德國電信公司（T-Mobile）390億美元的收購，位列次席。
????就谷歌公司本身而言，這是這家搜索巨頭公司有史以來最大的一筆收購交易。在此之前，谷歌公司最大的一筆交易是收購在線廣告公司Doubleclick（31億美元），緊隨其后的是2006年收購YouTube（16.5億美元）。同時，谷歌公司還是一家投資集團的成員，該集團2008年末以32億美元的價格收購了無線通信公司科維公司（Clearwire）22%的股份。根據最近一次的核查，谷歌手中目前共持有約390億美元現金。
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????Google (GOOG) this morning announced plans to buy Motorola Mobility Solutions (MMI) for $12.5 billion in cash. Not only does the $40 per share sale price represent a 63% premium (sorry MMI shorts), but also signals that Google is serious about Android taking a bigger bite out of Apple's mobile device business.
????This deal is the 11th-largest M&A transaction announced so far in 2011, according to Thomson Reuters. It also would be the year's largest-announced deal within the global "high-technology" sector, ahead of Microsoft's (MSFT) $8.5 billion deal for Skype. Were it to be classified as telecom, it would rank second behind AT&T's (T) $39 billion deal for T-Mobile.
????In terms of Google, this would be the search giant's largest-ever acquisition (by far). To date, it's largest deal was for online ad company DoubleClick ($3.1 billion), followed by the 2006 purchase of YouTube ($1.65 billion). Google also was part of an investor group that purchased a 22% stake in Clearwire for $3.2 billion in late 2008. As of last check, Google had around $39.1 billion in cash on hand. |
???????????????? 圖為2011年截至目前為止科技產業最大的六筆并購案。
