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Microsoft Has Unveiled Two New Handsets at Mwc 2015
Mar 2, 2015Microsoft has unveiled two new handsets at MWC 2015, officially introducing the Microsoft Lumia 640 and oversized Lumia 640 XL. Targeting the mid-range market at a low-end price point – think Moto G rival – the Lumia 640 and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, MWC
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Microsoft Has Unveiled Two New Handsets at Mwc 2015
Mar 2, 2015Microsoft has unveiled two new handsets at MWC 2015, officially introducing the Microsoft Lumia 640 and oversized Lumia 640 XL. Targeting the mid-range market at a low-end price point – think Moto G rival – the Lumia 640 and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, MWC
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Microsoft Will Close The $7.2 Billion Acquisition of Nokia's Handset Business on Friday
Apr 23, 2014Microsoft today said that it will close the $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business on Friday, about eight months after revealing the deal. Microsoft announced the acquisition of Nokia's devices arm?- and an associated patent ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, Nokia
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Nokia Is Targeting Emerging Markets with Three Low-Cost Smartphones
Feb 27, 2014Nokia is targeting emerging markets with three low-cost smartphones that use Google's Android operating system rather than the Windows Phone software from Microsoft, which is about to take over Nokia's handset business. Nokia will ditch ...
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Microsoft Has Finally Concluded Its Protracted Search and Chosen Its New CEO
Feb 13, 2014Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO:Satya Nadella,who as executive vice president of the company's Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company's back-end server ...
Tags: Microsoft, computer, Windows Phone, Microsoft gaming
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Antitrust Approved Microsoft's $7bn Acquisition of Nokia's Mobile Phone Business
Dec 4, 2013Antitrust regulators in the US have approved Microsoft's $7bn (£4.6bn) acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. The deal, announced in September, sees Microsoft take ownership of Nokia's Devices and Services business, which ...
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Has Used The Company's Annual Shareholder Meeting
Nov 27, 2013Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has used the company's annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington to highlight the "complex" requirements that need to be addressed as the firm attempts to find a new CEO for only the second time in its ...
Tags: Bill Gates, awaiting, Microsoft, CEO
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More Than 99 Percent of Nokia's Shareholders Have Voted to Approve Microsoft's Acquisition
Nov 25, 2013More than 99 percent of Nokia’s shareholders have voted to approve Microsoft’s acquisition of the Finnish company’s Devices & Services business. Nokia entered into an agreement to sell “substantially all” ...
Tags: Nokia, Smartphones, Microsoft
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Microsoft Has Drawn up a Shortlist of Five People to Replace Steve Ballmer as CEO
Nov 7, 2013Software giant Microsoft has drawn up a shortlist of five people to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft - and the shortlist includes former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Ford Motor Company's highly rated CEO Alan Mulally, according to ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products
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Microsoft "Will Be Dead and Gone" in Just a Few Years
Oct 28, 2013Ex-BT CTO and futurist Peter Cochrane believes Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia could be "like bolting two sinking ships together" as he urged the company to rethink its "gaudy and horrible" branding strategies. Following up his Computing ...
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Microsoft Has Lagged Behind in The Cloud Infrastructure Space
Sep 20, 2013Microsoft has lagged behind in the cloud infrastructure space, the company's CTO of cloud and enterprise, Dave Campbell, has admitted to Computing. Speaking to Computing at GigaOEM's Structure Europe in London this week, Campbell, when ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products
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Stephen Elop Is to Receive €18.8m
Sep 19, 2013Nokia's outgoing CEO Stephen Elop is to receive €18.8m ($25.5m) from Nokia and Microsoft due to contractual clauses pertaining to a change in control of the company. Revealed in a "proxy materials" document by Nokia, Elop's payout ...
Tags: Nokia, Microsoft, Computer Products
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Nokia Was Examining Android Operating System Before It Was Bought out by Software Giant
Sep 17, 2013Nokia was examining a switch from Microsoft to Google's Android operating system before it was bought out by the software giant, according to those close to the matter. The New York Times reports that, even while Nokia and Microsoft were ...
Tags: Nokia, Android, Computer Products
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Some 32,000 Lucky Nokians Will Be Magically Transformed Into Microsofties
Sep 17, 2013When Microsoft finally completes Steve Ballmer's last-ever super-soaraway acquisition, some 32,000 lucky Nokians will be magically transformed into Microsofties. For a company shrinking as fast as Nokia, it's amazing there are so many ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Microsoft's Acquisition of Nokia Was a Defensive Move to Keep The Finnish Phone Maker
Sep 9, 2013Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia was a defensive move to keep the Finnish phone maker from going under or falling into the hands of an Android-first rival, several analysts argued this week. “Had Nokia abandoned Windows Phone, ...
Tags: Nokia Deal, Microsoft