Lenovo Slashes 1,000 Jobs at Motorola

(Beijing) — Lenovo Group Ltd. has laid off about 1,000 employees at its Motorola unit, slashing more than half of the smartphone maker's workforce, after failing to revive the brand as part of a strategy to compete with top-tier names like Apple and Samsung.

The world's largest PC maker said in a statement that the Motorola cuts amount to less than 2 percent of its approximately 55,000 employees globally. But the layoffs took a much bigger toll on Motorola itself, accounting for half or more of its entire workforce, according to the news website Droid Life.