{"id":576968,"date":"2010-05-24T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-25:article\/419-motorola-eyeing-multiple-cities-for-handset-business-relocation"},"modified":"2010-05-24T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:22:20","slug":"motorola-eyeing-multiple-cities-for-handset-business-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576968","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Eyeing Multiple Cities For Handset Business Relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-motorola-eyeing-multiple-cities-for-handset-business-relocation\/\" title=\"Motorola's CEO of Mobile Devices Sanjay Jha at Mobilize\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"125088_2376\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/motorolas-ceo-of-mobile-devices-sanjay-jha-at-mobilize-s.jpg\" alt=\"Motorola's CEO of Mobile Devices Sanjay Jha at Mobilize\" width=\"170\" height=\"114\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>When Motorola (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=MOT\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"MOT\">NYSE: MOT<\/a>) announced its break-up plans earlier this year, it said it would consider moving the mobile-devices unit out of its long-standing Chicago-area offices. <\/p>\n<p>Any relocation would have a big impact on the Libertyville campus, where thousands of Motorolans are based. But the company now says that a move would impact fewer than 200 workers, and it wouldn&#8217;t happen until after this year. It also said it is considering multiple locations, including downtown Chicago, other nearby suburbs, as well as Dallas or Silicon Valley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=383022\" title=\"reports\">reports<\/a> <em>The Chicago Daily Herald<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Co-CEO Sanjay Jha, who will run the mobile-devices unit, previously worked at San Diego-based Qualcomm (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=QCOM\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"QCOM\">NSDQ: QCOM<\/a>) and still maintains a home in California, which is what in part led people to believe that the state could be a contender. Jha <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-motorola-break-up-plans-may-include-relocating-handset-business-to-cali\/\" title=\"also told the WSJ\">also told the WSJ<\/a> in February that \u201cWe\u2019ll go where that talent is, and right now, that looks like California.\u201d To be sure, California would place the handset-maker much closer to Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=GOOG\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"GOOG\">NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>), an important partner since Motorola has focused its comeback on the Android OS. <\/p>\n<p>A Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson, said &#8220;Illinois is very important to Motorola and today the company employs more than 10,000 people in the greater Chicago-area. Regardless of any potential relocation, Motorola will continue to maintain a meaningful presence in the state of Illinois.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-motorola-break-up-plans-may-include-relocating-handset-business-to-cali\/\" title=\"Motorola Break-Up Plans May Include Relocating Handset Business To California \">Motorola Break-Up Plans May Include Relocating Handset Business To California <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/d_jiR3Vzd_17lZVGrB77ZX6sJZY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/d_jiR3Vzd_17lZVGrB77ZX6sJZY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/d_jiR3Vzd_17lZVGrB77ZX6sJZY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/d_jiR3Vzd_17lZVGrB77ZX6sJZY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=KhmaBNF9JhA:rYbfkPuGk1s:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/KhmaBNF9JhA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced its break-up plans earlier this year, it said it would consider moving the mobile-devices unit out of its long-standing Chicago-area offices. Any relocation would have a big impact on the Libertyville campus, where thousands of Motorolans are based. 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