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Lenovo Can Find the Love It Deserves Back Home

Lenovo Can Find the Love It Deserves Back Home

By the end of today we should know whether Lenovo Group Ltd. took the long overdue step of writing down some of its $5.2 billion in goodwill. To recap: Lenovo went on a $5 billion spending spree four years ago to buy marquee names such as Motorola and IBM to boost its emerging smartphone and server businesses. Today, those units are constant losers (literally), ergo the premiums Lenovo paid for them – in the form of goodwill – ought to be written off.