Motorola Mobility was created in 2011 when Motorola Inc split the company into a mobile devices unit and a government and public safety division known as Motorola Solutions.

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Motorola plans to split itself into two publicly-traded companies early next year.

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The two have stabilised the business and will part next year when Motorola plans to split itself into separate listed entities, one focused on mobile phones and home entertainment (Mr Jha's domain) and the other on enterprise networking (Mr Brown's patch).

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And he needed to figure out how to split up Motorola to placate shareholders like Carl Icahn.

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It has also-ran products, and its talent pool (despite 19, 000 employees) has been decimated by years of cost cutting and underfunding as Motorola was ramrodded by Carl Icahn into a split, and a very, very weak 5th position in the market.

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This is the hope of Motorola, a faded telecoms giant, which will split itself in two on January 4th.

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Motorola's struggles to stay relevant in the handset business led the company to split into two pieces and made Mobility vulnerable to an acquisition.

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The handset market is split between companies with very aggressive new pricing plans (Samsung, Nokia, to some extent Motorola) and companies that were caught napping (HTC, RIM, LG).

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