Motorola Logo — Motorola is a company U.S. specializing in electronics and telecommunications , established in Schaumburg , Illinois , outside Chicago .Founded in 1928 in Chicago , by Paul V. Galvin and his brother Joseph when they acquire the battery eliminator business, bankruptcy of the Stewart Battery Co., creating the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation with only five employees and a heritage of 565 U.S. dollars in cash, $ 750 in tools and a design for the company’s first product: a battery eliminator. This allows domestic battery radios operate with routine household electrical current. By becoming obsolete battery-operated radios, so with the disposer.

The name “Motorola” was adopted in 1947, but has been used as a trademark since in 1930 developed the first radio car . The founder’s installed on your computer just in time to attend a business convention of car dealers. By not making a stand for display, it is in one of the parking. Motorola invented the word, combining the term “engine” with the suffix “ola” to suggest the idea of moving sound. Emerging companies used the suffix “-ola” to market their phonographs, radios and other audio equipment in the 1920’s, the most famous of these was “Victrola,” the company RCA launched its “Victrola” was another company that launched a jukebox on the market called Rock-Ola, and a film editor named Moviola .

Paul Galvin returns in 1936 from a trip to Europe , convinced of the imminent outbreak of war. In 1940 , a year after the start of World War II Motorola produces Handie-Talkie radio AM, the first walkie-talkie , which began to be used by the United States Army, reaching more than 100,000 manufacturing units. Since then one of its branches is electronically linked to the defense communications. In the late 1960s, Motorola began working on the development of mobile telephony . Fifteen years and 150 million dollars later, launched the Motorola DynaTAC , first cell phone in the world. Since then the company is on par with Nokia one of the market leaders, despite the sharp fluctuations caused. Also sells equipment to the infrastructure of communications networks. Motorola also participated in the launch of the constellation of satellites Iridium .

The business of the company also succeeded in manufacturing technology, semiconductors , including integrated circuits used in computers and microprocessors that were used for families Atari ST , Commodore Amiga , Apple Macintosh and Power Macintosh (actually equips Most opponents of the IBM PC and compatibles). In the early eighties, Motorola launched an aggressive crusade to improve the quality of its products, the first ten times, and then a hundred times. The company set a goal of quality “six sigma “. This statistical term meaning “six standard deviations from an average statistical performance.” This means that Motorola is proposed to reduce defects in their products to less than 3.4 per million in each of its processes: 99.9997% defect-free. “Six Sigma” became the rallying cry of Motorola.

In addition, Motorola now has a diversified line of telecommunications products passing from satellite systems to the modems . On October 6 of 2003 , Motorola announced that spin off semiconductor production in the creation of a new company Freescale Semiconductor, Inc . The new company began trading on July 16, 2004 in New York Stock Exchange . Currently, there has been a great workforce cuts. Motorola workers have grown from 150,000 to 69,000, approximately.

Motorola has managed to gain market share it had lost in relation to mobile phone companies like Nokia or Samsung with the design of the Motorola V3 and the famous Motorola L7 . In September 2005 , also launched the first mobile in the program include buying music online iTunes from Apple . In April 2006, Motorola sold its production line of automotive products to the company Continental , proceeding with the policy of enhancing the mobile phone sector .

On August 15th of 2011 , Google buys Motorola Mobility 1 for 12,500 million dollars. Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola, said “This transaction provides significant value for shareholders of Motorola and offers compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers and partners around the world. We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the platform Android, and now through this agreement we will be able to do even more to innovate and offer excellent mobility solutions through our mobile devices. “

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