Nokia is a communications and information technology corporation.Its Nokia Networks subsidiary provides telecommunications network equipment and services. As of 2013, Nokia employed 90,000 people across 120 countries, conducts sales in more than 150 countries and reported annual revenues of around €12.7 billion. In September 2013, Nokia sold what was once the world’s largest vendor of mobile phones to Microsoft as part of an overall deal totaling €5.44 billion (US$7.17 billion). Stephen Elop, Nokia’s former CEO, and several other executives joined the new Microsoft Mobile subsidiary of Microsoft as part of the deal, which closed on 25 April 2014.
Analysts continue to unpack the generally well-received announcements that Microsoft has unfurled since Satya Nadella ascended to the position of CEO last month. In his Weekly Update, Stowe Boyd, the Gigaom… Read more »
Cortana, Microsoft’s clone of Apple’s Siri, got a lot of the attention and ink during last week’s Build conference, but the real news was something more foundational, and economic. Microsoft showed… Read more »
Satya Nadella is continuing his rapid reconfiguration of the partly reorganized Microsoft he had handed to him a few months ago, most importantly making Scott Guthrie EVP of Cloud and Enterprise,… Read more »
Not a huge surprise, but Scott Guthrie gets the official nod as Cloud and Enterprise chief at Microsoft. Stephen Elop was named EVP of devices and Phil Spencer to head combined… Read more »
Yandex will provide the default search and app facilities for users of Nokia’s X-series Android smartphones in Russia and Belarus, the companies announced on Thursday. Read more »
Who has the largest music streaming collection? If you said Spotify, Rdio or Rhapsody, you’d be wrong. Surprisingly, it’s Nokia’s MixRadio which now boasts 30 million tunes, right in time for… Read more »
The anticipated first quarter closing date for Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s phone business is getting a small reboot: Nokia says the deal will close in April. What’s the holdup? Perhaps the… Read more »
If I told you a Nokia phone garnered one million pre-orders in just four days would you expect it to be a Lumia? You’d be wrong if so: It’s the Nokia… Read more »
Two Indian handset makers will reportedly not pay a fee to Microsoft for licensing Windows Phone. Is this the first change of a bigger strategy for Microsoft? Perhaps, and it may… Read more »
Anyone who reads the new Gigaom Research report, 3D Printing: hype, hope or threat?, will be taken through a deflation of the hype to the hope of the technology, likely wondering:… Read more »