Internet hulk Google has voiced a treat to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn (7.7bn).
A joint matter mentioned the play of both companies had unanimously granted the deal, that should be finished by the finish of this year, or early in 2012.
Earlier this year, Motorola broken up in to two well-defined companies.
Mobility develops and manufactures mobile phones, whilst Motorola Solutions covers wider technologies for corporate customers and governments.
Shares in Motorola Mobility jumped 57% in early trade in New York to $38.27, still next the offer cost of $40 per share. Shares in Google fell slightly.
Meanwhile, Nokia shares jumped more than 10% on headlines of the deal, with renewed conjecture that the Finnish mobile phone firm could turn a bid aim itself.
The treat would enable Google to "supercharge" its Android working system, the joint matter said.
Google mentioned it would go on to run Mobility as a well-defined business.
"Motorola Mobility's complete undertaking to Android has combined a innate fit for the two companies," mentioned Larry Page, Google's arch executive.
Sanjay Jha, his reflection at Mobility, said: "This contract offers poignant worth for [our] stockholders and provides convincing new opportunities for the employees, customers and allies around the world."
The treat is theme to shareholder and regulatory approval.
Motorola was once a of the world's many successful mobile phone manufacturers, but has depressed at the back the likes of Apple, Samsung and HTC in new years.
Many of its handsets already use Google's Android working system.
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