CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated the year Motorola Inc. split into two companies. It was 2011. After the piece published, the company provided updated information about the size of the legal and government affairs department. The story has been changed to reflect those numbers.

COMPANY PROFILE

Motorola Inc. launched the first walkie-talkies right as World War II got under way and created the radio Neil Armstrong used when he landed on the moon. During the early 1980s, it made the first commercial cellphone.