The 12 Most Expensive Acquisitions Made by Google

1. Motorola Mobility

Price – $12.5 billion

Motorola Mobility was formed in 2011 after Motorola Inc. split into two separate companies. Motorola Mobility included the mobile phones, cable modems, set-top boxes and so on, while Motorola Solutions kept the product lines designed for enterprises.

In August 2011, mere months after the split, Google snatched up Mobility for a whooping $12.5 billion, looking to get its hands on the stacks of patents Motorola Mobility owned. It seems this was the big focus for Google since it wasn’t long before Motorola Mobility was back on the market. In January 2014, Google announced it wanted to sell the company to Lenovo for $2.91 billion in cash and stock. While this may seem like a big loss, Google kept two thousand patents which it can use to defend itself against a plethora of lawsuits.

This is the most expensive acquisition ever made by Google.