Google doesn’t get it spectacularly wrong very often but it certainly did with its purchase of US handset maker Motorola which it bought for $12.5bn in 2012 but has now flogged to Lenovo for $2.9bn including a face-saving five per ...
Read More »Why funny is paying off for big US phone advertisers
Marketing professional turned freelance tech writer Sam Melton looks at how some US phone advertisers have discovered that humour works best. Companies can take different routes in advertising. They can play dirty and bash competitors. They can take the high ...
Read More »Google goes All-American for Moto X phone launch
Here’s one of Droga5’s first spots for Motorola’s new Moto X smartphone, and very American it is too. The new phone, the first to be released by Motorola since the company was bought by Google, majors on easy access and, ...
Read More »Droga5 snipes at ‘patriotic’ Apple with Motorola Moto X fourth of July launch
Motorola is launching its first big new product since being bought by Google (allegedly for its long list of patents). The new phone is called the Moto X and Motorola has hired happening New York agency Droga5 to kick off ...
Read More »Google hammered by triple whammy of rising costs, falling prices and big losses at Motorola
Google’s shares were suspended on the New York Nasdaq exchange when the company’s third quarter figures were released early, due to a printing cock-up apparently. The share price had fallen by nearly ten per cent per cent as the Q3 ...
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