Announcing the deal on its official blog, Google CEO Larry Page details its phenomenal success with its Android operating system, noting that more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide, with over 550,000 devices activated each day. Page says that Google wants to “supercharge the Android ecosystem” and has decided that Motorola is the best company to help the company do just that.

(via Google to Acquire Motorola’s handset business for $12.5 Billion - TNW Google)