Motorola

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Motorola

A Fortune 500 company, Motorola is a leader and an innovator in wireless and broadband communications.  Motorola’s consumer products range from cell phones and communications, voice and data networking, home monitoring and control, and home entertainment. The business products include communication servers, broadband solutions, and radios.
    Motorola’s founding company was Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago, which began on September 25, 1928 by Paul and Joseph Galvin. Galvin Manufacturing Corporation’s first product was a 1928 battery eliminator. This device allowed battery-powered radios to run on standard household electric current.  In 1930 the first Motorola radio was introduced, this was one of the first commercially successful car radios, and the brand-name Motorola was created.  Galvin Manufacturing Corp. sold its first Motorola public stock in 1943 for $8.50 per share.  Finally in 1947 Galvin Manufacturing Corp. became Motorola, Inc. The world’s first commercial hand-held cellular phone, the Motorola DynaTAC phone, received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 1983. Motorola then worked throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s improving upon their cellular phones, and also developed wireless cable modem Gateway.
    Motorola reported on September 21, 2007 that for the fourth straight year – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) has been named to the Dow Jones sustainability world Index (DJSI World) and the Dow Jones sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America), recognizing the company’s economic, environmental and social performance.
    According to their annual report, Motorola had annu ...
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