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Microsoft to acquire Nokias devices & services business, license Nokias patents and mapping se

2013-09-03 14:34:29| MobileTechNews

Microsoft to purchase Nokia's Devices & Services business for EUR 3.79 billion and EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia's patents totalling EUR 5.44 billion or $7.18 billion. Steve Elop to transfer back to Microsoft.

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Microsoft buys Nokias phone business for $7.2 billion in an attempt to imitate Apple

2013-09-03 13:58:38| Extremetech

Microsoft has announced that it will acquire Nokia's mobile phone business, and a "broad intellectual property license" for Nokia's patent portfolio, for 5.44 billion Euros (~$7.2 billion). This deal will see Stephen Elop return to Microsoft as the vice president of the newly minted Nokia division, along with some 32,000 other Nokia execs and employees. Microsoft's rationale for the acquisition, which is due to complete in early 2014, is that it will allow the software giant to finally, seriously, definitely compete against Apple and Google in the smartphone and tablet markets. For real this time. Honest.

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Microsoft ends top Masters certification exams for IT pros

2013-09-03 13:37:49| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft plans to retire its Masters level certification exams by Oct. 1 this year, generating strong protests on blogs and community forums from IT professionals. The Redmond, Washington, software company, however, defended the move, with an executive stating that the Masters program reaches only "a tiny proportion of the overall community," and only a few hundred professionals had bagged the certification in the last few years. The certification was designed so that professionals could aspire to it as the peak of the Microsoft certified program.

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VIDEO: Microsoft and Nokia's 'big step forward'

2013-09-03 13:25:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer tells the BBC the deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business is, "a big, bold step forward"

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Trying the Apple strategy: Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business

2013-09-03 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News

Nearly three years ago, ex-Microsoft exec Stephen Elop became CEO of Nokia.

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