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Motorola Freezes Salaries, Cuts Benefits

It’s no secret that Motorola has financial problems. Standard & Poor’s has given it a junk credit rating, and it was having financial troubles prior to the credit crunch biting hard.

But it’s taking steps to ride out the recession. Co-chieif executives Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha have both agreed to forgo their 2008 cash bonuses and will take a 25% salary cut, according to CNET.

Beginning in 2009, the company will suspend its matching 401k contributions for employees, and will freeze its pension plan from the start of March. It will fund its pension obligations to retirees, however.

Motorola Mulls Selling Off Phone Business

Motorola Mulls Selling Off Phone Business

It wasn’t so long ago that Motorola’s mobile phone business—anchored by the company’s popular RAZR handset—was the envy of the industry. Now, however, the electronics giant finds its mobile phones operations have tkane a third place behind Nokia and Samsung, falling to a 13 percent share of the worldwide market in thhe third quarter of 2007, down from 21 percent in the same quarter of 2006. In fact, things have gotten so bad that Motorola is apparently considering a drastic move: selling off its mobile devices business altogether.

Ed Zander Resigns as Motorola CEO

Ed Zander Resigns as Motorola CEO

Although Motorola rode a two-year high-profile success with its sleek RAZR phone, the company has dropped to third place among mobile phone makers, and turned in doleful financials for the first half of 2007—and although the third quarter wasn’t to bad, it still represented a 94 percent drop in profits. Today, however, Motorola’s stock buoyed up a bit: CEO Ed Zander announced he would be stepping down January 1, to be replaced by current Chief Operating Office Greg Brown. Zander will continue in his role as chairman of the company’s board until at least the company’s annual shareholder meeting in May 2008, and as an advisor to the CEO through January 5, 2009..

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