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Motorola (MOT) Looks For The Exit Door

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Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) shares were halted. Then the company announced what many on Wall St. had expected. Its board will look at whether not the company should exit the cell phone business. The firm’s share of global handset sales has dropped from about 22% to 12% in two years. Rivals Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Samsung, and Sony Ericsson have systematically stripped MOT of its customers.

Samsung and Sony Ericsson would be likely buyers.

Earlier in the month, 24/7 Wall St. noted that Motorola might not make it through the year intact. Now it looks like that prediction may come true soon.

In its announcement, the company said it is exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its Mobile Devices business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value. The company’s alternatives may include the separation of Mobile Devices from its other businesses in order to permit each business to grow and better serve its customers.

In other words, the board and management admitted defeat.

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Some of the other companies we have noted, with full explanations in the link, are Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Citigroup, (NYSE: C), Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Ford (NYSE: F), Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S), and Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q).

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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