Google Pays $1.1 billion for HTC's Engineering and Design Teams

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Google is acquiring some of HTC's intellectual property and its engineering and design teams for $1.1 billion, which give the company more control over its Pixel devices.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is taking on some 2,000 employees with experience working on its signature Pixel devices, intended to showcase the best features of the Android software that now power the vast majority of the world’s smartphones. The deal also comes with a non-exclusive licensing agreement for HTC intellectual property. link [bloomberg.com]

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Good move IMO. HTC is(was?) a great company that made great Android hardware. I've had two of their phones and never had a problem. Kept each phone for several years. I even talked with one of their techs in Taiwan once.

Google teamed with HTC for their Nexus One Android phone (which I had) so they've had an ongoing relationship, now they wanted more control it seems.