Google will cut 4,000 jobs at Motorola

The Internet giant announced the dismissal of more than 20% of the global template of the telephone company which acquired for $ 12,500 million last may

Google announced Monday the Elimination of 4,000 jobs at Motorola, one third of which is in the United States to try to get afloat with the manufacturer of cell phones that he bought in may.

Google pledged to compensate the workers affected with "generous benefits" of dismissal and professional retraining programs, said a spokesman for Google, confirming press reports.

The "strategy" aims to "facilitate the return of the benefits in the mobile phone unit" of Motorola, it added. Motorola has lost ground in the segment of smartphones in the hands of Apple and Samsung, which dominate the field.

According to The New York Times, Google will cut operations in Asia and the India at the time which will reduce investigations and developments in Chicago, Beijing and Sunnyvale. In addition, the number of devices manufactured by Motorola will be also decreased.

Motorola Google's purchase was announced in August 2011 for $ 12,500 and finally identified in may 2012. The acquisition gave the Internet giant access to over 17,000 patents from Motorola.

Google noted from the outset that the purchase of Motorola would not interfere with their plans and it responded more to your project to defend and help members ofAndroid. 

Thus, Google has opted to Asus to make its Nexus 7 Tablet and has worked with HTC and Samsung to create their smartphones, also called Nexus.