https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16338110/htc-google-trading-stock-takeover-report
If Google really wants to get into hardware, they need to be able to make their own phones, etc. The landscape has changed since they bought and dumped Motorola.
Shame. Best phone I've owned was an HTC.
Google bets anew on smartphones, pays $1.1 billion for HTC's Pixel division
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-htc-m-a-google/google-bets-anew-on-smartphones-pays-1-1-billion-for-htcs-pixel-division-idUSKCN1BW06L