Motorola had to spread its resources over too many areas. By moving away from the semiconductor business, it can spend more on research and development and also make its earnings stream more smooth.
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And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
Investor patience is not too long these days. For a company like Motorola, I don't think you can expect change to happen in one to two quarters. It will take a long time to turn it around.
For the past five months, the company has been working on the profitability of the phone business rather than just sheer market share. We think Motorola can achieve those double-digit operating margins.
There is that potential if some of the low-cost handset and infrastructure initiatives being promoted by manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson can help operators in India, China and Africa push coverage further inland and reach the smaller townships and villages.
We worked in good faith to resolve this issue with Motorola and we are very pleased with the successful outcome, ... The Board selected Mike as we believe he is the best candidate to assume the role of president and CEO and we have every confidence in him. We look forward to a great future together.
Shares of companies like Apple and Motorola may have gotten ahead of themselves. But companies further down the supply chain are reasonably priced.
My basic premise is that, as time moves along, they're going to have to spend more from operating cash flow, and that's going to increase the cost burden in the future compared to more nimble companies like Motorola. Investors are going to be interested in companies with rising operating margins, not ones struggling to raise them.
Austin has headliners like Dell, Motorola and UT that would benefit greatly from nonstop service to New York and Boston. Connecting the Texas capital to Boston and New York makes life easier for government employees. (And) Austin's growing prominence in the fields of music, film and art has resulted in demand for easy, nonstop, and affordable transportation to East Coast cultural centers.
The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.
With his experience at GE, ATT, The Home Depot and Motorola, Dennis brings to Nortel an impeccable business pedigree. As I continue to strengthen the Company's leadership team, it's critical that we have individuals with global business experience working for world-class companies. Dennis will play a key role in driving the cultural and business transformation at Nortel that will be essential to the Company's future success.
When it comes to delivering wireless broadband, Motorola has it covered. We have end-to-end solutions and services, the technological expertise, experience, global span and market presence regardless of which technology meets their business need.
Motorola has always had problems with speed to market. They haven't done a good job with refreshing their product lines.
Obviously the cell business is extremely hot in Europe and it's going to continue and it's going to grow in other parts of the world and I think a good supplier of that comes from Motorola ( MOT Research , Estimates ) and again, the stock has absorbed a lot of negative news lately and it does seem to have made a bottom and it keeps bouncing off its lows. So that tells me that, you know, going forward things will change. We might encounter another quarter of bad news out of them but I think at these levels it should be bought.
Think about the implications of this. Mike would not be able to go to anybody in the telecoms space if Motorola sticks to this ... There will probably be some sort of agreement struck.
Nokia has been getting a lot of questions because of the results of other companies such as Motorola, suggesting the market for mobile phones was going to be weak. I think that they wanted to come in ahead of what Ericsson is going to do tomorrow -- and Ericsson has said its handset sales haven't been that great.