{"id":21959,"date":"2013-09-03T08:16:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21959"},"modified":"2013-09-03T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:16:59","slug":"microsoft-buys-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/03\/microsoft-buys-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft buys Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, sorry, I misread the headline &#8230; it should say &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-23940171#TWEET876788\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft buys Finland&#8217;s tech sector<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia&#8217;s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; \u00a34.6bn).<\/p>\n<p>Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 45% on news of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase is set to be completed in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>While Nokia has struggled against competition from Samsung and Apple, Microsoft has been criticised for being slow into the mobile market.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the deal as a &#8220;big, bold step forward&#8221;, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told the BBC that his company was in the process of transforming itself from one that &#8220;was known for software and PCs, to a company that focuses on devices and services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve done a lot of great work in the two-and-a-half years that we&#8217;ve been in partnership with Nokia, going literally from no phones to 7.4 million smart Windows phones in the last quarter that was reported,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he admitted: &#8220;We have more work to do to expand the range of applications on our product.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we can now retire the &#8220;Microsoft is buying <del datetime=\"2013-09-03T13:14:04+00:00\">RIM<\/del> Blackberry&#8221; rumours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, sorry, I misread the headline &#8230; it should say &#8220;Microsoft buys Finland&#8217;s tech sector&#8220;: Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia&#8217;s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; \u00a34.6bn). Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 45% on news of the deal. The purchase is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,62,15],"tags":[603,94,547],"class_list":["post-21959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-europe","category-technology","tag-finland","tag-microsoft","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21961,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959\/revisions\/21961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}