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After years of playing footsie — in a game that accelerated over the past 12 months — Microsoft and Nokia finally pulled the trigger on a $7.2 billion deal. What changed… Read more »
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After years of playing footsie — in a game that accelerated over the past 12 months — Microsoft and Nokia finally pulled the trigger on a $7.2 billion deal. What changed… Read more »
Microsoft has announced that it will be buying Nokia’s devices and services business a various patents for $7.17 billion, and that CEO Stephen Elop (shown at right) is rejoining Microsoft as… Read more »
Microsoft will join Google and Facebook — and show its commitment to Finland — by siting a data center in Europe’s frozen north. Also, the Nokia phone unit takeover talks have… Read more »
The Finnish firm may now be out of the smartphone business as such, but it’s perfectly positioned to give Google a serious headache in the location-based services market — on phones,… Read more »
Many have speculated that former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop took the CEO job at struggling mobile phone pioneer Nokia just to direct the company toward Microsoft’s mobile ambitions. On Monday night,… Read more »
Nokia’s low-end range isn’t doing so hot in the face of competition from Android and others. Although Lumia sales are up a third since the last quarter, overall sales are down… Read more »
The Nokia CEO has revealed a major upcoming Lumia launch in the U.S., with “a season of new product introductions” to follow. The revelation comes hot on the heels of news… Read more »
Nokia sold 5.6 million Lumia smartphones in the first quarter of this year, up from 4.4 million in the previous quarter. Its shareholders are still losing money – but less than expected. Read more »
Stephen Elop wants to see how tablet platforms mature, and what value Nokia can add, before he dives in. With Windows RT/8 and Android as his options, we can expect quite… Read more »
Nokia’s mapping and location-based services suite will be available on multiple platforms and open to third-party developers. This gives the company an OS-independent platform to exploit, and a chance to make… Read more »