Articles about Nokia

Microsoft adds 23k employees in one year, growing 14% despite pandemic and tight labor market

Microsoft’s global employee count grew to nearly 190,000 people at the end of the September quarter, a net increase of… Read More

How Nokia’s former CEO landed at a Seattle startup, rejoining Microsoft vet who led Nokia integration

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business didn’t turn out like either company had hoped, but five years later, some of… Read More

Microsoft and Nokia reunite for new alliance, 5 years after failed $7B smartphone megadeal

It’s been more than five years since Microsoft’s $7 billion ill-fated acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business, and now the companies… Read More

Veteran Seattle entrepreneurs raise cash for secretive advanced analytics startup Lamda

Brian Lent and David Bluhm are teaming up again on another startup. The veteran Seattle entrepreneurs who previously sold Medio… Read More

TLDR: T-Mobile & Nokia’s $3.5B 5G alliance, Ofo shuts down in Seattle, Magic: The Gathering

Today’s featured stories With Sprint acquisition pending, T-Mobile teams up with Nokia in new $3.5B 5G alliance Ofo officially shutting… Read More

With Sprint acquisition pending, T-Mobile teams up with Nokia in new $3.5B 5G alliance

T-Mobile and Nokia have formed a new $3.5 billion partnership to speed up deployment of a next-generation nationwide 5G wireless… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Tech spotlight on Nokia Health and the ThinkPad X1

On our Geared Up podcast, we cover all the breaking tech and gadget news of the week. But on this… Read More

Vodafone and Nokia join PTScientists to put 4G mobile phone network on moon

Can you hear me now, on the moon? Not yet, but Nokia has just signed onto a team that aims… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle startup vet Gaurav Oberoi joins Paul Allen’s AI initiative; Axon scoops up Nokia vision team; PitchBook hires Marchex exec

Gaurav Oberoi, an entrepreneur and startup executive known for co-founding Precision Polling, BillMonk and SurveyMonkey Audience, has joined the Allen… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up: Back from the dead! Samsung Galaxy Note, Nokia phones and Microsoft Paint

Some tech just won’t stay dead. This week has been full of unexpected comebacks, from once-defunct smartphones to beloved — if… Read More

Seattle startup vet Rob Lilleness acquires Smartlabs, investing $7.3M in the home automation company

As CEO of Medio Systems, Rob Lilleness led the predictive analytics startup through 10 years of growth and an acquisition… Read More

Three years after $7B Nokia deal, Microsoft’s smartphone strategy has changed dramatically

It’s hard to believe that it was only three years ago today that Microsoft officially completed its purchase of Nokia’s… Read More

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Microsoft in 2016: Surging stock, new devices and a huge new AI team

Satya Nadella’s third year as CEO of Microsoft turned out to be a pretty good one. Microsoft closed the year… Read More

Surprise: Microsoft unveils new Nokia cell phone after agreeing to sell the business

Microsoft this morning unveiled a new cell phone called the Nokia 216, with a 2.4-inch screen, front- and rear-facing cameras,… Read More

Microsoft Surface phone speculation ramps up as company reportedly dials back on Lumia models

Microsoft will “end sales” of its lineup of Lumia smartphones in December, according to a report from WinBeta. Citing an… Read More

Microsoft cutting 2,850 additional jobs from smartphone and sales teams

Microsoft is cutting back its smartphone and global sales teams even more than previously announced as it continues to pull back… Read More

Microsoft all but exits smartphone hardware with new $950M charge and 1,850 more job cuts

Microsoft says it will scale back its smartphone hardware business even more, cutting 1,850 additional jobs and taking a $950 million… Read More

Microsoft’s $350M sale of entry-level phone business will revive Nokia brand

Microsoft has agreed to sell its entry-level phone business for $350 million in a deal that will result in the Nokia brand… Read More

Microsoft’s former music service MixRadio is shuttered by Line

Line’s decision to shutter MixRadio on Tuesday drew some media attention — the joke being that as a functioning music… Read More

Nokia completes $2.8B sale of HERE mapping tech to German automakers; Seattle office to expand

Audi, BMW, and Mercedes Benz have some ambitious plans for applying their new mapping technology to self-driving cars. The three German automakers completed a $2.8… Read More

Tech Moves: Moonraft expands in U.S. with Seattle office; Dolly names ex-Code Fellows CEO Kristen Smith as COO; etc.

—Moonraft, an India-based technology design firm, is opening a new Seattle office, marking its first expansion in the U.S. Moonraft co-founder and… Read More

Nokia confirms $3B sale of HERE mapping technology to German automakers

Nokia confirmed late Sunday evening that it has agreed to sell its HERE mapping technology to a group of German automakers for… Read More

Microsoft filing reveals phone division was missing internal targets prior to $7.5B write-down

A new Microsoft filing reveals previously undisclosed details about the company’s decision last month to upend its Phone Hardware division, cut up to 7,800 additional jobs and take a… Read More

Microsoft posts $3.2B quarterly loss thanks to giant Nokia write-down

Microsoft just reported a quarterly loss of nearly $3.2 billion in the June quarter, as the company’s bottom line took a hit from its previously… Read More

Audi, BMW, Daimler AG set to pay $2.7B for Nokia’s HERE mapping technology

Nokia’s mapping and location business has a buyer. The Wall Street Journal reported today that German automakers Audi, BMW, and Daimler… Read More

Indix raises $15M to build out huge e-commerce product database trove

Indix has raised another $15 million to continue developing a platform that offers its clients information about millions of online products. The… Read More

Nokia will resume making phones after Microsoft agreement ends, CEO says

The rumors of the return of the Nokia phone are true. The Finnish company’s CEO Rajeev Suri told Germany’s Manager Magazin… Read More

It’s now the ‘Microsoft Theater’ in L.A. — a first-of-its-kind naming deal for Redmond company

Microsoft acquired Nokia’s smartphone business last year, and now the Redmond company is putting its name on the Nokia Theater,… Read More

Uber reportedly wants to buy Nokia’s HERE maps business for $3 billion

Uber wants to buy Nokia’s HERE mapping and location business. The New York Times reported Thursday that the ride-hailing service submitted… Read More

Nokia denies mobile phone revival, says it ‘currently’ has no such plans

Nokia said in a public statement this morning that it “currently has no plans to manufacture or sell consumer handsets” — denying… Read More