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Microsoft moves to acquire Nokia

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

 

It looks as though Microsoft Corp. is moving into a paradigm shift with its move toward a $7 billion acquisition from Nokia to thrust it into the mobile market. Nokia will still remain a company after Microsoft buys the company’s handset business. While Microsoft is acquiring what Nokia is best known for, the Finnish company is holding on to two if its major businesses: networking and mapping. Microsoft has been hoping to take a slice of the mobile market from smartphone moguls Apple and Google, and meanwhile has been partnering with Nokia for three years.

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Nokia sells MetaCarta just three months after acquisition

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

According to TMC News, Finnish telecom Nokia announced the sale of US software developer MetaCarta without disclosing a price on Monday.
Qbase Holdings just  purchased MetaCarta three months after MetaCarta was acquired by Nokia.

Cambridge-based Metacarta develops geographic intelligence software and  employs about 30.




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