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"  Google has been growing exponentially the last year with major acquisitions in robotics and smart home computing and even acquired artificial intelligence startup DeepMind earlier this week. But one of its more massive assets in its tech menagerie is Motorola, which Google shelled out $12.5 billion for the company in 2011. After less-than-stellar sales of the Moto X and Moto G smartphones, Google is calling it quits and nearing a sale of the mobile company to Lenovo. Reuters and The New York Times say that a deal could be reached today.  Chinese-based Lenovo leads the world in PC sales but has been eager to enter the mobile space. The tech giant even released its first LTE-enabled smartphone, the Vibe Z, earlier this month. The company now seems to be taking a different tactic and buying its way into the market. According to The New York Times, Lenovo will take control of the Moto X and Moto G handsets and an unspecified number of patents. One of Google&amp;#039;s original reasons to acquire Motorola in 2011 (though some still don&amp;#039;t understand why) was to gain access to its 17,000 patents in addition to gaining a foothold in the mobile industry. It&amp;#039;s unclear exactly how many and which patents will transfer to Lenovo, but for now, Google&amp;#039;s future in smartphone hardware looks uncertain. Update: According to TechCrunch, Google will retain a majority of Motorola&amp;#039;s patents and transfer over 2,000 other patents to Lenovo, as well as Motorola&amp;#039;s brand and trademark. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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