Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label sales

Lenovo Buys Motorola For $2.91 Billion

The rumour of Lenovo wanting to buy Motorola was confirmed few hours ago and the deal finally went through.  Lenovo which is a strongly emerging Chinese computer company was making a bid to buy Motorola from Google few days back when the rumoured leaked. However, at the end of close of business yesterday, the company was able to successfully buy the handset unit of Motorola which also comes with portfolio of patents.  Lenovo paid Google $2.91 billion to acquire Motorola according to the info on Google's website which is really far away from what Google herself paid to acquire Motorola few years back ($12 billion).  Lenovo will pay cold cash to Google up front, which equates to $660 million, along with $750 million in stock, while the rest of the $1.5 billion will be paid out in the coming three years.   This may suggest a kind of loss by Google in this regard, however, Google doesn't see that way. Google had been experiencing difficulties...

Samsung Note 3 Hits 10 Million Sales In 2 Months

Samsung devices are always selling in numbers but the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has broken records. Samsung Note 3 which was released 2 months ago has sold about 10 million pieces in just its 2 months of release even surpassing that of Galaxy Note 2 which couldn't sell 10 million in 3 months. This huge sales could be attributed to the serious advertising campaigned made coupled with the release of Samsung Galaxy gear smart watch as a complementary gadget to the Note 3. One more thing is that Samsung made the Note 3 a serious power house, giving it 3GB RAM, Android Jelly Bean 4.3, 32GB internal memory with an expandable memory. Not to mention the 13MP rear camera, Quad Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Exynos  processor, TV out, Remote controller etc. Samsung Note 3 is currently being sold for N108,000 in slot computer village Ikeja. In the next few months the sales should be reaching 30 million if the figure realised in the past 2 months is to be reckoned. Like...