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Dec 29, 2023 · Throwing its weight around in mobile will invite more regulatory scrutiny of Microsoft, after largely avoiding the spotlight in the 25 years since it was a defendant in a landmark U.S....
Oct 24, 2023 · Satya Nadella wrote off Microsoft’s Nokia phone business acquisition and now says the company’s exit from mobile was a mistake.
Jul 30, 2023 · In September 2013, Microsoft announced its purchase of Nokia’s mobile device business, leading to the release of the first Microsoft-branded Lumia device one year later.
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Oct 27, 2023 · Microsoft is still paying for its mobile mistakes 10 years later. CEO Satya Nadella attracted attention this week when he confessed that Microsoft's decision to kill its mobile platform...
- Nokia Was An Icon in Mobile Phones
- How Nokia Started
- Before Microsoft Acquired Nokia, The Giant Was Already Struggling
- Who Bought Nokia?
- After Microsoft Acquired Nokia, What Happened to It?
If you’re older than 20, you most definitely know Nokia for leading the telecommunications market back in the early years of cellular phones, producing some of the first commercially successful handsets that sold hundreds of millions of devices and lead the industry for more than ten years straight, paving the way for the rise of companies like Bla...
Let’s get nostalgic now. Nokia was born in Finland, in 1865, so it has lived over the transition of two centuries. Yes, it was during the final years of the industrial revolution when Nokia was created by Frederik Idestam and Leo Mechelin, two owners of wood mills in the Finnish towns of Tampere first and later in Nokia, a town named after the Noki...
But just then, the first decade of the new millennium brought a real game-changer: in 2007, the iPhone was released to the world, quickly setting a new industry standard. Just switching from keyboards to an all-touchscreen the way Apple did it back then, was revolutionary, and with the implementation of iPhone OS, there was no doubt that Apple had ...
Cut to - the end of 2013, Microsoft announces the acquisition of all Nokia phone operations for more than 5B euros. It was Microsoft’s move to take part in the mobile market after having underestimated it and focused mainly only on its PC business. It was an ambitious bet and a bigger challenge for Microsoft. The dimension and complexity of the acq...
In this new stage, back again in Finnish hands, Nokia seems to have been recovering some of its roots and it now produces straight forward devices for the mid-lower end of the market. However, it’s been diminished to almost being unknown for the new generations. So, that’s how a company that once was reigned over the mobile phone industry became a ...
In October 2017, Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore revealed that Microsoft would no longer develop new phone hardware, and that Windows 10 Mobile would only receive maintenance releases and patches from then on, citing its low market share and Microsoft's abandonment of its mobile business.
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Apr 25, 2017 · Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia was announced under then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s tenure, and completed under current CEO Satya Nadella, who later narrowed the company’s smartphone focus.
