Google Buys Motorola ⇥

Google Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion […] Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

I guess Google will start taking hardware seriously. I wonder how the management-types of HTC and Samsung are taking this.