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|}} | logo = | type = Public | fate = Divided into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions | successor = Motorola Mobility Motorola Solutions Freescale Semiconductor ON Semiconductor Arris Group (General Instrument) Cambium Networks | foundation = | defunct = January 4, 2011 | area_served = Worldwide | location = 1303 East Algonquin Road,〔("Motorola Office Locations" ). Retrieved July 26, 2010.〕 Schaumburg, Illinois, United States | key_people = Gregory Brown(CEO and Chairman-Motorola Solutions)〔Motorola Solutions website, http://newsroom.motorolasolutions.com/content/default.aspx?NewsAreaId=140〕 | num_employees = 40,000 (2014)〔http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-2FO3VV/3328830760x0x725920/E28D483B-EBEF-432A-9B0F-417CA92AE074/MSI_2013_10-K_As_Filed_.pdf〕 | groups = Mobile Phone Devices Connected Home Solutions Network Home Solutions | industry = Telecommunications | products = Tablet computers Mobile phones Smartphones Two-way radios Networking systems Cable television systems Wireless broadband networks RFID systems Mobile telephone infrastructure | homepage = }} Motorola, Inc. was a multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States (U.S.). After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company was divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Motorola Solutions Inc: NYSE:MSI quotes & news – Google Finance )〕 Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and, public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra. These businesses (except for set-top boxes and cable modems) are now part of Motorola Solutions. Google sold Motorola Home (the former General Instrument cable businesses) to the Arris Group in December 2012 for US$2.35 billion.〔http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/google-seen-selling-it-mobility-unit-to-lenovo-for-about-3-billion/〕 Motorola's wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones. Also known as the Personal Communication Sector (PCS) prior to 2004, it pioneered the "mobile phone" with DynaTAC, "flip phone" with the MicroTAC as well as the "clam phone" with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s. It had staged a resurgence by the mid-2000s with the RAZR, but lost market share in the second half of that decade. Later it focused on smartphones using Google's open-source Android mobile operating system. The first phone to use the newest version of Google's open source OS, Android 2.0, was released on November 2, 2009 as the Motorola Droid (the GSM version launched a month later, in Europe, as the Motorola Milestone). The handset division (along with cable set-top boxes and cable modems) was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility. On May 22, 2012, Google CEO Larry Page announced that Google had closed on its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility )〕 On January 29, 2014, Google CEO Larry Page announced that pending closure of the deal, Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments).〔(Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility from Google – Investor Relations – Google ). Investor.google.com. Retrieved on 2014-01-30.〕 On October 30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hello Moto )〕 ==History== Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois, as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (at 847 West Harrison Street)〔Mahon, Morgan E. ''A Flick of the Switch 1930–1950'' (Antiques Electronics Supply, 1990), p.111.〕 in 1928 when brothers, Paul V. and Joseph E. Galvin,〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142754161〕〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15588954〕 purchased the bankrupt Stewart Battery Company's battery-eliminator plans and manufacturing equipment at auction for $750. Galvin Manufacturing Corporation set up shop in a small section of a rented building. The company had $565 in working capital and five employees. The first week's payroll was $63. The company's first products were battery-eliminators, devices that enabled battery-powered radios to operate on household electricity. Due to advances in radio technology, battery-eliminators soon became obsolete. Paul Galvin learned that some radio technicians were installing sets in cars, and challenged his engineers to design an inexpensive car radio that could be installed in most vehicles. His team was successful, and Galvin was able to demonstrate a working model of the radio at the June 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He brought home enough orders to keep the company in business. Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's new car radio, and created the name “Motorola” by linking "motor" (for motorcar) with "ola" (it was a popular ending for many companies at the time, e.g. Moviola, Crayola.).〔"The naming origin of Motorola" HighNames, accessed May 16, 2015, http://highnames.com/motorola-naming-origin/〕 The company sold its first Motorola branded radio on June 23, 1930, to H.C. Wall of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for $30. The Motorola brand name became so well-known that Galvin Manufacturing Corporation later changed its name to Motorola, Inc.〔Harry Mark Petrakis, The Founder’s Touch: The Life of Paul Galvin of Motorola (Chicago: McGraw-hill, 1965), 58-93; “Sound in Motion,” Motorola Solutions History, accessed November 5, 2014,〕 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation began selling Motorola car-radio receivers to police departments and municipalities in November 1930. The company's first public safety customers (all in the U.S. state of Illinois) included the Village of River Forest, Village of Bellwood Police Department, City of Evanston Police, Illinois State Highway Police, and Cook County (Chicago area) Police.〔“Calling All Cars,” Motorola Solutions History, accessed November 5, 2014, http://www.motorolasolutions.com/US-EN/About/Company+Overview/History/Explore+Motorola+Heritage/Calling+All+Cars.〕 Many of Motorola's products have been radio-related, starting with a battery eliminator for radios, through the first hand-held walkie-talkie in the world in 1940,〔“Handie-Talkie Radio,” Motorola Solutions History, accessed November 5, 2014, http://www.motorolasolutions.com/US-EN/About/Company+Overview/History/Explore+Motorola+Heritage/Handie-Talkie+Radio〕 defense electronics, cellular infrastructure equipment, and mobile phone manufacturing. In the same year, the company built its research and development program with Dan Noble, a pioneer in FM radio and semiconductor technologies, who joined the company as director of research. The company produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio during World War II, which was vital to Allied communication. Motorola ranked 94th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.〔Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. ''The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis'' (1962) Harvard Business School p.619〕 Motorola went public in 1943,〔Motorola Solutions History, “A Legacy of Innovation: Timeline of Motorola History Since 1928.”〕 and became Motorola, Inc. in 1947. At that time Motorola's main business was producing and selling televisions and radios. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Motorola」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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