Lenovo the Chinese Co that took over Motorola after Google acquired it and kept the patents. Lenovo acquired more tech companies World Wide
This comes on the heels of a couple of articles where I when down this road and traced. . .
what played out in the UK even prior to Trump's visit, linked it up with May giving Trump the "Key's to the Kingdom" and a certain Charter from 1606 (My roads are Very Long but quite fascinating from the travels of those who go before me).
The trail of treason from what was going on in British Intel and how it links up with Deep State pain and woes in the U.S.
Interesting similarities to Apple HQ with GCHQ
The road down Apples second campus led me to a very interesting group who purchased Apple's properties. . .Hines Interests. Now The company was founded in Houston in 1957 by Gerald D. Hines.
In 1966, the Hines Interest signed a lease with Royal Dutch Shell in a building they were constructing.
the Royal Dutch Shell company leads back to history with the UK and The Hague
The Hague is the seat of government for the Netherlands and poses a "Human Rights" and diversity campaign which includes a close connection to formerly Dutch owned property. . .Indonesia.
Obama holds Indonesia in fond memory for some "growing up years" spent there.
*Found on a university page training in all manner legalize. ..a certain symbol.
Also took note on how people put in place in the Deep State have been found to be integral in the spygate treason which leads back to Christopher Steel, a British spy.
Then got back on the Apple HQ highway to note that the land across from their first campus (which they still use for office and "lab" space) which is the land east of Mariani One across De Anza Boulevard where the campus was built was originally occupied by the company Four-Phase Systems (later acquired by Motorola).
This led me to my old notes and info on Who acquired Motorola
Also connected my road to the fact of this Based in The Hague. .European Patent Office
That's interesting considering Google retained Motorola patents and how many of these tech giants are connected.
Motorola significant in Many of these Tech Giant connections and how both technology and hardware are driven into the populations' hands World Wide.
Then I gave a reminder of who has worked with Facebook, Google and Motorola. . .Regina Dugan.
After giving a run down of all of her connections since 19th Director of DARPA went into who acquired Lenovo
Chinese company named Lenovo who was working with tech companies who had their hands in various industries including classrooms and health prior to acquisitions.
Guess who gave them their seed money? A government entity that says they are "research", but nevertheless Government owned. Then you find out it leads to more connections which include the Deep State and many trying to take the "conflict of interest" off of this company.
All of that lead up to get to this. . .the company that acquired Motorola.
Lenovo
Lenovo Group Limited, often shortened to Lenovo, is a Chinese multinational technology company with headquarters in Beijing, China.
Lenovo which once again acquired Motorola designs, develops, manufactures, and sells personal computers, tablet computers, smartphones, workstations, servers, electronic storage devices, IT management software, and smart televisions.
Lenovo is the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales, as of March 2019
Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index, often referred to as "Red Chips".
Liu Chuanzhi founded Lenovo on 1 November 1984 with a group of ten engineers in Beijing.
The Chinese government approved Lenovo's incorporation on the same day. Jiǎ Xùfú (贾续福)
one of the founders of Lenovo, indicates the first meeting in preparation for starting the company was held on 17 October of the same year.
Eleven people, the entirety of the initial staff, attended. Each of the founders was a middle-aged member of the Institute of Computing Technology attached to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Liu Chuanzhi received government permission to form a subsidiary in Hong Kong and to move there along with five other employees. Liu's father, already in Hong Kong, furthered his son's ambitions through mentoring and facilitating loans.
We benefited in three ways from the IBM acquisition.
We got the ThinkPad brand
IBM's more advanced PC manufacturing technology
the company's international resources, such as its global sales channels and operation teams.
These three elements have shored up our sales revenue in the past several years.
This works out. ..
IBM has steadily reduced its holdings of Lenovo stock. In July 2008, IBM's interest in Lenovo fell below the 5% threshold that mandates public disclosure.
The United States Department of Treasury Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) was reportedly the last hurdle for Lenovo, since the United States has the strictest policies.
By 2015, Lenovo grew into the world's number 1 PC maker, number 3 smartphone manufacturer and number 3 in the production of tablet computers.
Lenovo invested CN¥ 100,000,000 in a fund dedicated to providing seed funding for mobile application development for its LeGarden online app store.
Lenovo passed Apple to become the No. 2 provider of smartphones to the Chinese market in 2012.
On January 27, 2011, Lenovo formed a joint venture to produce personal computers with Japanese electronics firm NEC. The companies said in a statement that they would establish a new company called Lenovo NEC Holdings, to be registered in the Netherlands.
In April 2014, Lenovo purchased a portfolio of patents from NEC related to mobile technology. These included over 3,800 patent families in countries around the world.
In June 2011, Lenovo announced that it planned to acquire control of Medion, a German electronics manufacturing company. Lenovo said the acquisition would double its share of the German computer market.
This deal by Lenovo was the first in which a Chinese company acquired a well-known German company.
n September 2012, Lenovo agreed to acquire the Brazil-based electronics company Digibras, which sells products under the brand-name CCE.
Prior to its acquisition of CCE, Lenovo already established a $30 million factory in Brazil.
In September 2012, Lenovo agreed to acquire the United States-based software company Stoneware, in its first software acquisition. The transaction was expected to close by the end of 2012; no financial details have been disclosed.
Stoneware was acquired to further Lenovo's efforts to improve and expand its cloud-computing services.
It's website is no longer there, but think about it. . .prior to be acquired they were integral in schools and health care.
Motorola acquisition. ..Thanks Google!
On 29 January 2014, Google announced it would sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for US$2.91 billion.
When Google and Lenovo first announced the acquisition of Motorola, they said the purchase would be funded with $660 million in cash, $750 million in Lenovo stock, and a $1.5 billion promissory note due in three years.
The deal includeded smartphone lines like the Moto X and Moto G and the Droid Turbo.
Lenovo also got the future Motorola Mobility product roadmap. Google will retain the Advanced Technologies & Projects unit and all but 2,000 of the company's patents.
Lenovo will receive royalty free licenses to all the patents retained by Google.
That works out well. ..
The acquisition was completed on 30 October 2014. Motorola Mobility will remain headquartered in Chicago, and continue to use the Motorola brand, but Liu Jun, president of Lenovo's mobile device business, became the company's leader.
According to DNA info
Motorola Solutions will open a new global headquarters at 500 W. Monroe St. in the West Loop this week
WEST LOOP — Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Motorola Solutions Monday in opening the firm's new global headquarters in the West Loop.
"Welcome home to the City of Chicago," Emanuel said to Motorola Solutions Chairman Greg Brown at a ceremony Monday afternoon. He also lauded the company's sponsorship of a science, technology, engineering and math curriculum in Chicago Public Schools.
In March 2017, Lenovo announced it was partnering with Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based software storage virtualization company DataCore to add DataCore's parallel I/O-processing software to Lenovo's storage devices.
In 2017 Lenovo formed a joint venture with Fujitsu and the Development Bank of Japan.[54] In the joint venture, Fujitsu will sell Lenovo a 51% stake in Fujitsu Client Computing Limited.
In 2018, Lenovo became the world's largest provider for the TOP500 supercomputers.
For the first 20 years of its existence, the company's English name was "Legend"
April 2003, the company publicly announced its new name, "Lenovo", with an advertising campaign including huge billboards and primetime television ads. Lenovo spent 18 million RMB on an eight-week television advertising campaign. The billboards showed the Lenovo logo against blue sky with copy that read,
"Transcendence depends on how you think."
By the end of 2003, Lenovo had spent a total of 200 million RMB on rebranding.
The ThinkPad has been used in space and is the only laptop certified for use on the International Space Station.
Lenovo has implemented an aggressive strategy to replace Samsung Electronics as Mainland China market's top smartphone vendor. It has spent $793.5 million in Wuhan in order to build a plant that can produce 30 to 40 million phones per year.
Microsoft officially announced that Lenovo had become the hardware partner of Windows Phone platform at the Mobile World Congress 2014.
In June 2013 Lenovo announced a partnership with Sharp to produce smart televisions. In March 2014, Lenovo announced that it projected smart television sales surpassing one million units for 2014. The same month Lenovo released its flagship S9 Smart TV.
Lenovo wanted to procure High-Tech hardware in the then newly emerging Internet of Things (IoT) economy[105] and formed a strategic partnership with Cogobuy in which it previously primarily bought IC components from.
At the IFA 2018, Lenovo launched several smart home products.
REACHit is a storage management application. It is designed to help users access, organize, and search files across multiple devices and operating systems. It connects Windows personal computers, Android devices, and iOS devices and works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box. On Windows devices, REACHit is integrated with Windows File Explorer. Lenovo began bundling REACHit with all its computers and tablets in early 2015.
Through a partnership with Microsoft, REACHit is fully integrated with Cortana in Windows 10, a voice-based integrated assistant.
REACHit was discontinued and shut down on September 12, 2016.
The company executive headquarters are in Morrisville, North Carolina
Found on Stoneware-inc's Linkden
The company registered office is on the 23rd floor of the Lincoln House building of the Taikoo Place in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
Lenovo is the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales from 2013 to 2015. In 2016 Lenovo shipped an estimated 55.5 million PCs, for an estimated 21.3% market share, according to market research firm International Data Corporation.
In 2009, China Oceanwide Holdings Group, a private investment firm based in Beijing, bought 29% of Legend Holdings, the parent company of Lenovo, for 2.76 billion yuan
In early 2006, the U.S. State Department was criticized for purchasing 16,000 computers from Lenovo. Critics argued that Lenovo was controlled by the Chinese government and a potential vehicle for espionage against the United States.
The CEO claimed they are not a government company, but In 1984 the Chinese Academy of Sciences only invested $25,000 in our company. The purpose of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to invest in this company was that they wanted to commercialize their research results.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is a research entity in China, owned by the government.
** That's interesting, so the investment Was by the government?**
Observers stated that Lenovo was controlled by the Chinese government and a potential vehicle for espionage against the United States.
Liu Chuanzhi is the founder and chairman of Lenovo. Liu was trained as an engineer at a military college and later went on to work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In an interview with The Economist he stated that "Our earliest and best teacher was Hewlett-Packard." For more than ten years, Lenovo was Hewlett-Packard's distributor in China.
In early 2013, Lenovo announced the addition of Yahoo founder Jerry Yang to its board.
Tudor Brown, the founder of British semiconductor design firm ARM, was also appointed to Lenovo's board.
Processors designed by ARM or by ARM licensees are used as microcontrollers in embedded systems, including real-time safety systems (cars' ABS), biometrics systems (fingerprint sensor, smart TVs (e.g. Android TV), all modern smartwatches (such as Qualcomm Toq), and are used as general-purpose processors in smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops (even also for running, traditional x86, Microsoft Windows programs servers and supercomputers/HPC,e.g. a CPU "option" in Cray's supercomputers.
ARM's Mali line of graphics processing units (GPU) are used in laptops, in over 50% of Android tablets by market share.
Systems, including iPhone smartphones, frequently include many chips, from many different providers, that include one or more licensed ARM cores, in addition to those in the main ARM-based processor.
The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology.
The Vanguard project by Sandia National Laboratories is to deliver a exascale ARM machine.
Lenovo has gained significant market share in India through bulk orders to large companies and government agencies. For example, the government of Tamil Nadu ordered a million laptops from Lenovo in 2012 and single-handedly made the firm a market leader.
In October 2013, Lenovo announced that it had hired Ashton Kutcher as a product engineer and spokesman.
In July 2012, Lenovo and the National Football League (NFL) announced that Lenovo had become the NFL's "Official Laptop, Desktop and Workstation Sponsor." Lenovo said that this was its largest sponsorship deal ever in the United States. Lenovo will receive advertising space in NFL venues and events and be allowed to use the NFL logo on its products and ads.
ZUK, a separate company formed by Lenovo in 2014, announced several products at Tech World, These included slim power banks, 3D printers that can print food such as chocolate, an outdoor sound box, and a Wi-Fi based control system for home automation.
Lenovo launched a multi-year advertising campaign called "Goodweird" in the last half of 2015. Goodweird is designed to convey the idea that designs that seem strange initially often become familiar and widely accepted.
Lenovo worked with three agencies on Goodweird: London-based DLKW Low, We Are Social, and Blast Radius. Goodweird is part of Lenovo's wider strategy to appeal to millennials with an emphasis on design trendsetters. A portion of the funding for Goodweird is being directed to prominent YouTubers and Viners. BuzzFeed has been engaged to create relevant content.
If one wonders what they are signaling, here are some of their slogans.
New World. New Thinking (2005–2011)
For Those Who Do. (2011–2016)
We Make The Tools. You Make Them Do. (2012–2016)
Different is Better (2016–present)
Lenovo became the subject of controversy in 2015 for having bundled software identified as malware on some of its laptops. The software, Superfish Visual Discovery, is a web browser add-on that injects price comparison advertising into search engine results pages.
To intercept HTTPS-encrypted communications, the software also installed a self-signed digital certificate. When the Superfish private key was compromised, it was also discovered that the same private key was used across all installations of the software, leaving users vulnerable to security exploits utilizing the key.
n 2017 Lenovo agreed to pay $3.5 million as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission.
Salon tech writer David Auerbach compared the Superfish incident to the Sony DRM rootkit scandal, and argued that "installing Superfish is one of the most irresponsible mistakes an established tech company has ever made."
From October 2014 through June 2015, the UEFI firmware on certain Lenovo models had contained software known as "Lenovo Service Engine."
Lenovo says automatically sent non-identifiable system information to Lenovo the first time Windows is connected to the internet, and on laptops, automatically installs the Lenovo OneKey Optimizer program (software considered to be bloatware) as well.
It was found that this program had been automatically installed using a new feature in Windows 8, Windows Platform Binary Table, which allows executable files to be stored within UEFI firmware for execution on startup, and is meant to "allow critical software to persist even when the operating system has changed or been reinstalled in a 'clean' configuration"; specifically, anti-theft security software.
It was found that aspects of the software had security vulnerabilities, and did not comply with revised guidelines for appropriate usage of WPBT.
As of June 2016, a Duo Labs report stated that Lenovo was still installing bloatware, some of which leads to security vulnerabilities as soon as the user turns on their new PC. Lenovo advised users to remove the offending app, "Lenovo Accelerator".
It's important to remember. . .
American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
the company was divided into two independent public companies,
Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011.
Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.
Motorola Mobility was sold to Google in 2012, and acquired by Lenovo in 2014.
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https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160815/west-loop/motorola-opens-new-global-headquarters-west-loop/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/stoneware-inc/about/
https://mspoweruser.com/lenovo-killing-reachit-app-august-31st/