When Google Met Moto

People familiar with Motorola's inner workings say there is still a big gap from the culture at Google, a child of the Internet age that helped pioneer a free-wheeling style that values improvisation. Though Motorola delivered some hit cellphones, for example, others were slowed by a bureaucratic layer of middle management and little innovation from rank and file workers, say some current and former employees. Google's Motorola Mobility purchase will make things uncomfortable for former partners, like Samsung and Nokia, which have turned into rivals overnight, Nick Wingfield reports. A key difference between the companies stems from Motorola's focus on hardware and Google's on software. That helps explain why Google is more able to take risks, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said. If he worked at Google and "wrote a little bit of code, and if there are bugs, I can fix it later," he said. "When I deliver a phone, I don't have that flexibility."