Mountain View, Calif. – Third-quarter operating losses at Google’s Motorola unit shrank on a sequential and year-ago basis but were up for the first nine months of the fiscal year.
Revenues for both periods were down more than 30 percent.
Third-quarter 2013 revenues shrank 36 percent to $1.14 billion compared with the year-ago quarter and were down 34.6 percent for the nine-month period to $3.16 billion.
Third-quarter operating losses shrank 39.8 percent to $317 million from the year-ago $523 million. For the year to date, however, operating losses were up 10.3 percent to $930 million.
The third-quarter revenue decline followed a second-quarter bump up to $998 million from the prior year’s $843 million.
Motorola Mobile’s full-year 2012 sales were $6.33 billion, down 33 percent from $2011’s $9.5 billion.
Google purchased Motorola in May 2012.
In the third quarter, Motorola accounted for 8 percent of Google’s consolidated sales, down from a year-ago 13 percent.
As of Sept. 30, Motorola’s head count shrank to 4,259 compared with 4,599 at the end of the second quarter.
