Motorola Mobility
On January 4, 2011, the consumer electronics and telecommunications company Motorola would split itself into two divisions, with Motorola Mobility responsible for their consumer related products. One of those products would be their mobile phone business, more importantly, smartphones which were beginning to dominate the marketplace.
In May 2012, when Google bought Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion, they would use this purchase to get into the smartphone market. This would be short lived as only 2 years later Google would decide to sell Motorola to Hong Kong based and Chinese owned Lenovo on October 30, 2014, for $2.9 billion.
Although Lenovo already had a pre-existing smartphone division, it would use Motorola to get its foot in the door of the American smartphone market. Since Motorola had been a telecommunications company all the back to 1928, Lenovo would pick up some 2000 patents as part of the deal.
They would become the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world and by March 2017, the decision would be made that they would no longer make Lenovo branded phones and just use the Motorola for all future products.
10 thoughts on “7 US Companies That Are Chinese Owned”
Wow! GE and Motorola plus Walldorf and AMC are big surprises to me!
Wow! GE — non would bigger as a surprise to me vs losing Motorola, Waldrof, and AMC.
Why is the government so worried about Tiktoc? Seems like China owns or controls a very large portion of American commerce. Its true vey little is made in America with American products.
China is A very Dangerous enemy. The land and Companies owned in the U.S.A. and other countries will amaze you. The have a long term plan. Make no mistake… If the United States does not wake up. Our next war will be fighting Scum China. A pathetic communist Country. Trump is here to stop the attack on The United States by scum China. Thank God The Brain dead Biden family is gone baby gone.
Yikes ! ! ! (Has anyone told the President?)
Yikes ! ! !
How totally disgusting that China owns any of us
Many American & European companies located in Hong Kong, China…are owned by British, Urasians & American companies.
Why the brouhaha about Tic Tok when China already owns Motorola? China can already see what we are communicating. Hear all our conversations and know our financial information including back accounts , bank numbers, when we are in dept of out of debt. We communicate our entire lives on Motorola. Police Departments and Government Agencies.
The country that’s sending Fentanyl to the U.S. to kill us and probably stockpiling on the land they purchased now has a way to put it in our food. How special!