Im Carl Quintanilla with john ford, mike santolli. Also joining us this morning, henry blogdet, as well Jason Callahan good morning, a lot to get to. First off, google making the 1 billion bet on smartphones with its purchase of part of htcs mobile division, as the Company Takes on apple deidre is in San Francisco and is going to set the table on this one hey, deidre. Good morning, carl. Thats right, google is betting on talent to make that hardware push google picked up htcs pixel division, so half of its 4,000 person team in a deal worth 1. 1 billion. This also comes with a nonexclusive Licensing Agreement for htc intellectual property. Its still early days for googles hardware business were focused on building our core capabilities and were investing for the long run. This comes just days ahead of their october 4th launch of Second Generation products its current suite of gadgets includes the pixel smartphones, google home, daydream view and others googles record in hardware has bee
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