Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Microsoft taking over Nokia

   If you own Nokia stock this morning, you will notice the price has jumped around 40% on the news that Microsoft is buying the corporations line-up of smartphones and a portfolio of patents and services.

   This is Microsoft's attempt to strengthen its fight with Apple Inc. and Google Inc. and capture a slice of the lucrative mobile computing market.'
  
    The price is $7.2 billion. 33,000 Nokia employees will become Microsoft workers early next year to join Microsoft's existing 99,000 employees.


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