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Nokia Snaps Up Symbian; Plans To Rule Mobile World

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June 24th 2008
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Kathleen

ADOTAS – Nokia has big plans: it announced that it has snapped up the remaining 52% stake in mobile software specialist Symbian that it didn’t already own, in a cash deal totaling about $410 million. The cell-phone manufacturer also took the opportunity to share its ambition to rule the mobile [...] more...

Nokia Buys Social Network Service Plazes

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June 23rd 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Cell phone-maker Nokia has snapped up Berlin-based Plazes, a geographically based social network, in a push to expand its Internet service offerings. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. “This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with [...] more...

Google Plants Stake In Flourishing Mobile Market

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March 19th 2008
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Editor

ADOTAS - Google has been reporting a noticeable increase in online activity among the mobile phone crowd in recent months since the firm has introduced faster web services on a few models. Google’s services being offered on Blackberry phones, Nokia devices for multimedia picture and video creators and iPhones have [...] more...

Nokia Media Network Launches

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February 11th 2008
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Editor

Today, Nokia announced the launch of the Nokia Media Network, a premium ad network including over 70 publishers and operators as well as Nokia media properties. The network yields click through rates that average 10% in certain channels, the highest reported response rates in the industry. Mike Baker, Head of Nokia [...] more...

Nokia Launches Mobile Gaming & Social Network Services

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February 5th 2008
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Editor

On Tuesday, Nokia announced the launch of its online gaming service N-Gage, which will expand its online mobile offerings. The cell phone maker has also launched its own social networking site “Share on Ovi” today, allowing users to share videos and pictures, built on the technology from the U.S. firm Twango, [...] more...

Sun To Acquire MySQL For $1B

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January 16th 2008
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Editor

Sun Microsystems Inc. has come to an agreement to purchase open software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, padding out the server maker’s services with the company that provides technology to some of the heavy hitting websites worldwide according to the Associated Press. In separate announcements, Sun said that its second [...] more...

Nokia Looks To Pull Ahead Of Microsoft & Google

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December 4th 2007
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Editor

Nokia has announced its financial targets for the next two years and the company has revealed that its main focus is to gain market share in mobile technology. However, share declined 3.5% in morning trading according to a report in The Wall Street Journal as the company was down $1.40. Olli [...] more...

Nokia Gets Geographical, Acquires Navteq

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October 1st 2007
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Editor

It was announced today that Nokia Corp. is buying navigation-software maker Navteq Corp. for about $8.1 billion. The agreement states that Nokia will pay $78 in cash for every share of Navteq, including the outstanding options. Navteq is based in Chicago and sustains digital maps which the company licenses to web sites [...] more...

Nokia Unveils New Mobile UMA Phone

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September 20th 2007
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Editor

On Thursday, Nokia introduced its newest mobile phone model 6301. This new handset has unlicensed mobile access (UMA) capabilities. Callers can use the web to make calls when in the range of unlicensed wireless networks. Once out of range the connections will instantly change to a UMTS, GSM, or GPRS mobile [...] more...

Twango Sets Foot In The Mobile Market

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July 25th 2007
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Editor

In an effort to make gains on the escalating mobile interactive market. Nokia has recently acquired Twango, an online storage and social networking service. The mobile firm gains a user friendly system with Twango. The social networking service is fairly universal between devices which what Nokia plans to utilize the system [...] more...


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