China has never received an application for approval of transaction Googorola

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The era of Googorola is almost upon us, and the consequences of such a transaction is still largely unknown to most of us. We can see some pretty amazing (and odd) gizmos and gadgets spawn from this little get together, and we certainly can expect more Android platform than ever before. Other Android OEMs remained relatively Gulf so far, but this might change in an instant, when they see first phone Moto flagship with a pure Android experience. In fact, to put an end to the MotoBlur can be the most interesting result of the Googorola, indeed (at least for us end-users).

But there are a few things that must happen before.

Google obviously began to travel through the obstacle course, which is a system of regulatory approval of the United States of America. In Google's original statement on Wednesday he claimed that the transaction is subject to regulatory approval in the United States, EU and other countries. Funny, one of these other jurisdictions is one of the largest in the world: China. And Google still send an application for approval of the Ministry of Commerce of China.

Apparently the rules in China are as follows: If your company receives annual global income of at least 10 billion yuan ($ 1.55 billion United States dollars), or your company generates annual revenues of 400 million Yuan (62.6 million United States dollars) in China, you better get your butt to the Ministry of trade and get approval for any proposed acquisition.

"The Ministry has not yet received any application for antitrust review," said the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce Shen Danyang in an interview with Reuters.

Google has long had some beef with China. Over the past few years censored results were on the search giant, and with cyber attacks that took place in January 2010, Google said, basically he didn't play in the rules anymore, even if it means leaving China forever. To deal with the Government of China will most likely not be the most enjoyable part of the merge, but you gotta do what you gotta do right Googs?

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