????周一上午,谷歌公司(Google)宣布以125億美元的現(xiàn)金收購摩托羅拉移動(dòng)公司(Motorola Mobility Solutions)。這不僅意味著后者40美元的股價(jià)溢價(jià)63%(真遺憾,這就是摩托羅拉公司低矮的股價(jià)),也標(biāo)志著谷歌志在必得,誓要利用Android系統(tǒng)從蘋果公司(Apple)的手機(jī)市場(chǎng)份額中分得更大一杯羹。
????據(jù)湯森路透(Thomson Reuters)報(bào)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(lǐng)域中最大的一筆交易,超過微軟公司(Microsoft)對(duì)Skype 85億美元的收購規(guī)模。如果歸入電信業(yè),這筆交易僅次于美國電話電報(bào)公司(AT&T)對(duì)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(shí),谷歌公司還是一家投資集團(tuán)的成員,該集團(tuán)2008年末以32億美元的價(jià)格收購了無線通信公司科維公司(Clearwire)22%的股份。根據(jù)最近一次的核查,谷歌手中目前共持有約390億美元現(xiàn)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(chǎn)業(yè)最大的六筆并購案。