No, Google has not bought HTC, or at least not the entire company. This morning we woke up with the news that Google has acquired a part of HTC’s smartphone business for 1100 million dollars, and some have confused this operation with a full purchase of the Taiwanese company by the search engine.
However, the agreement between both companies is somewhat more complex than that, and is far from what we saw in the purchase of Motorola by Google in 2011. That is why we are going to try to explain in a simple way what is the exact treatment to which Both companies have arrived and what immediate repercussions they can have for each other.