... than a dozen nations worldwide (www.motorola.com). The Motorola corporation continued to set trends with the introduction of the eight-track tape player in 1965 (www.aes.org). However, the short-lived success of the eight-track tape deck would mark the beginning of a drastic change in Motorola's production line. The next few years saw Motorola moving away from consumer electronics ... lines of credit to allow these ventures to be built using their products. The Nextel venture accounted for 15% of their hand set sales for that year. Motorola attempted to play banker when they should have...

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