Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC’s smartphone division

{rss:content:encoded} Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC’s smartphone division http://ift.tt/2rOVkEx http://ift.tt/2nleqxl January 30, 2018 at 07:11AM  Google has announced the completion of its $1.1 billion deal to buy a large slice of HTC’s hardware business. The acquisition was announced back in September 2017 but now it has passed the requisite approvals and is finalized. Beyond the transfer of over 2,000 engineers from HTC — that’s around one-fifth of HTC’s engineering team — Google will also receive… Read More