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About the Company

Motorola Mobility LLC is an American telecommunications equipment corporation owned by Google Inc. and headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville, Illinois. It was formerly Motorola's cellular phone division, which was called the Personal Communication Sector (PCS) prior to 2004. It pioneered the flip phone with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s. Motorola had a commanding lead in the analog cellphone market, but it was slow to embrace digital technology. By the turn of the 21st century, it produced another successful product, the (original) Razr, a very thin flip phone. Most recently, it has produced smartphones and tablets using Google's Android operating system. On January 4, 2011, the cellular division was spun off into a separate company as Motorola Mobility, while the remainder of the company was renamed Motorola Solutions, Inc.  

About the Person

Doug Swiderek is Director of Information Technology at Motorola.