Google subsidiary Motorola is to set to undergo the knife as its new owners seek to turn the ailing smartphone makers fortunes around, repots the New York Times. In all, around 4,000 Moto staff are to face the cut, while the company will also lose up to a third of its offices around the globe. According to Motorola's new CEO Dennis Woodside, the moves are aimed at shifting the company away from low-end handsets so it can focus on developing, fewer, but better handsets.