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Nokia reportedly planning a return to smartphones

Nokia is planning to get back into the smartphone business almost a year after Microsoft acquired its devices and services… Read More

Nokia reaches $16.6B deal to acquire Alcatel-Lucent, explores possible sale of HERE maps

Nokia announced a deal to acquire French telecom company Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion, taking the biggest step yet to rebuild its business… Read More

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Microsoft will shut down two manufacturing plants in China

When Microsoft acquired Nokia’s devices and services business last year, the deal included some of the company’s manufacturing plants. Around… Read More

Microsoft’s new $29 cell phone has a battery that will last a month

Microsoft has dropped the Nokia branding from its line of Lumia smartphones, but it lives on with a new budget cell… Read More

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Top 10: Highlights from GeekWire’s most-read stories of 2014

On this week’s GeekWire radio show, we’re counting down our top 10 picks from our most popular stories of the year.… Read More

Chat app Line buys MixRadio music streaming service from Microsoft

Microsoft sold its MixRadio streaming service to Line, the popular Japan-based messaging app. The two companies announced the deal today, though… Read More

Surprise! Nokia jumps back into devices with new N1 Android tablet

Nokia, the company that sold its devices and services business to Microsoft earlier this year for more than $7 billion,… Read More

Nokia is ‘up to something’ new after Microsoft acquisition, announcement set for Tuesday

Microsoft may have acquired Nokia’s Devices and Services division earlier this year, but the company hasn’t given up its pursuit… Read More

Microsoft says goodbye to Nokia brand, unveils $137 Lumia 535 smartphone

Microsoft said goodbye to the Nokia brand on Monday evening, unveiling the new Microsoft Lumia 535. The Lumia 535, Microsoft’s… Read More

Microsoft to unveil new Lumia device next week

Microsoft will reveal its first Lumia device next Tuesday, as the company today teased an announcement with the picture on the right and a… Read More

Nokia’s HERE maps app hits wide release on Android

Nokia launched a version of its HERE maps app for Android today that can be installed on most Android devices.… Read More

Finland prime minister blames Apple for country’s troubles

Apple’s amazing innovations over the years have caused some of the biggest names in technology to take a back seat,… Read More

Samsung paid Microsoft $1B under Android patent deal last year, filings reveal

Windows Phone may be floundering, but Android’s success has been a fiscal boon to Microsoft. The company made $1 billion… Read More

AT&T will carry the Lumia 830 this holiday season

Stephen Elop announced today that the Nokia Lumia 830 smartphone will launch on AT&T’s network this holiday season. Elop, the… Read More

‘Selfie Phones’: New Microsoft Lumias try to stand out with 5 MP front-facing cameras

Tired of taking blurry and pixelated selfies? Microsoft has a solution for you. The company’s new Lumia 730 and 735… Read More

Not just Nokia: HTC One (M8) expands to Microsoft’s Windows Phone, exclusive to Verizon

HTC this morning confirmed that it will expand its flagship HTC One (M8) device to Windows Phone, marking an important… Read More

New data: Nokia acquisition makes Microsoft more international — and less male

As of June 30, for the first time in its history, Microsoft’s employed fewer people in the United States than it did… Read More

Chinese protesters reportedly slam Microsoft over ‘hostile takeover and violent layoffs’

Microsoft is facing more pressure in China. Five days after a report surfaced that Chinese officials were investigating Microsoft’s offices… Read More

Q&A: Nokia HERE targets iOS and Android, expanding its role as the ‘location cloud’

The launch of Amazon’s Fire phone today marks an important step for Nokia’s HERE location-technology business, which is supplying the underlying mapping platform used… Read More

Nokia’s MixRadio streaming service hopes to spin off from Microsoft amid layoffs

Nokia’s MixRadio music streaming service is aiming to spin off from Microsoft as a part of the layoffs the company… Read More

Microsoft will stop making Android devices, shifting Nokia X to Windows Phone

Microsoft’s brief tenure as an Android phone maker is coming to an end. As part of the 18,000 job cuts announced… Read More

Could Android apps be the key to growing Windows Phone?

One of the major problems facing Windows Phone is the relative immaturity of its app ecosystem. Microsoft has worked hard… Read More

Nokia’s Lumia 930 goes on sale this week, except in U.S.

International customers interested in picking up the next flagship Windows Phone will get their chance soon, starting this week. Microsoft… Read More

Microsoft unveils its new Android phone, the Nokia X2

Yes, you read that headline correctly: Despite questions about Microsoft’s long-term commitment to Nokia’s fledgling Android lineup, the Redmond company… Read More

Nokia acquires mobile analytics company Medio for ‘Here’ location platform

Nokia today announced its acquisition of Medio Systems, a Seattle-based mobile predictive analytics startup. Nokia ‘Here‘ location platform — which is not… Read More

Key Nokia camera engineer hired by Apple following Microsoft acquisition

Nokia’s smartphones are known for their cameras and imaging technology, but a key engineer on the team won’t be joining Microsoft as… Read More

Hello, Microsoft: Nokia devices group posts $452M loss as acquisition closes

Nokia’s Devices & Services Group posted an operating loss of 326 million euros, or $452 million, in the quarter prior… Read More

Elop defends his Nokia tenure, promises faster innovation as part of Microsoft

Stephen Elop, the former Nokia CEO who has returned to Microsoft as part of its $7.2 billion Nokia acquisition, this… Read More

It’s official: Microsoft is a smartphone maker, as $7B Nokia aquisition closes

Microsoft this morning completed its purchase of Nokia’s devices and services business for more than $7 billion, bringing aboard another 25,000… Read More

Nokia smartphone business to be called ‘Microsoft Mobile’ after $7.2B deal closes

“Microsoft Mobile” — that’s a name you might hear more often once Microsoft’s $7.2 billion deal to acquire Nokia’s Devices and… Read More