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.
Extortionists reportedly got several million euros out of Nokia around 2007-2008, according to a report from Finnish TV station MTV. Reuters has also got confirmation from Finnish police that a blackmail… Read more »
Medio is the second company Nokia’s Here division has bought in the last month to help it create more personalized maps that do more than just give directions. Read more »
Based on its Kinect hardware for Xbox, Microsoft knows a thing or two about gesture-based interfaces. A report suggests that upcoming Windows Phones could use gestures and sensors to simplify smartphone… Read more »
Nokia has bought a virtual travel agent, one that just happens to have deeper insight than a typical search engine into travel destinations and your own personal preferences. Read more »
Android will keep its majority smartphone share thanks largely to lower cost handsets says IDC. Wait a second: doesn’t that segment bode well for Microsoft too? Read more »
Microsoft phones now account for the third most web traffic in North America, behind iOS and Android. BlackBerry’s share has fallen to the fourth spot, but Microsoft’s share really hasn’t grown… Read more »
If you needed another example of a smartphone sales slowdown at the high-end of the market, Samsung provided it on Thursday. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung co-CEO JK Shin… Read more »
Looking for a new Windows Phone 8.1 device? Nokia is ready to start selling one: The $159 Lumia 630 is now on sale in Asia with other regions to follow as… Read more »
One of the senior engineers on Nokia’s PureView camera team is headed to Cupertino. While Nokia has many patents on the PureView technology, Apple could gain some imaging expertise to help… Read more »
NTT Docomo is performing groundbreaking new trials of new wireless technologies that could boost capacity to 10 Gbps on future mobile networks. It’s not 5G, but it could become part of… Read more »