The world largest company Google paid $5.5 billion for patents

The world largest company Google paid $5.5 billion for patents. The world largest company Google has discard some light on exactly how Google came to value the acquisition of Motorola Mobility at $12.4 billion. And as preliminary assumption surrounding the deal initially suggested, the largest sum went towards patents and developed technologies.

Nearly half of the total cost was assigned to acquiring Motorola’s intellectual property, a total of $5.5 billion. The rest of the $12.4 billion was broken down to $2.9 billion for cash acquired, $730 million for customer relationships, $670 million for net assets, and $2.6 billion as a gesture of goodwill, which relates to “the synergies expected to arise after the acquisition.”