Nokia Corporation

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After the announcement of the acquisition of Nokia's activity by Microsoft group little overview about the brand that has been a great success story before falter particular victim of fierce concurrence on the telephony market.

Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications. Became the leading manufacturer of mobile phones in 1998, it remains until 2011 before losing his title the following year as world number one in favor of Samsung.

September 3, 2013, Nokia separated from his "mobile terminal" decline division to refocus its business on its "network" Nokia and Networks2 Solutions division.

The origin of the term is obscure Finnish Nokia. The most common considers that comes from the old name of the sable to refer to all animals with dark fur hypothesis. However, sables never lived in Finland and the term could refer to the beaver. Still, Nokia has given its name to a large river, Nokianvirta (literally "river of Nokia"), located west of Finland, on which the city was founded and settled Nokia company.

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[...] July Siemens announced to sell its stake in Nokia Siemens Networks Nokia to 1.7 billion. A Nokia store in Germany Between Q and 2013, sales of Nokia phones and smartphones increased from 83.420 million phones sold, or the market of phones sold 60,953,000, or of the market, Nokia remains the second Global handset maker behind Samsung in all categories market share but ahead of Apple and LG. Nokia has disappeared from the Top 100 ranking Millward Brown 2012 devaluation of brands. In this context, Nokia has decided to dispose of its "mobile devices" division. [...]

[...] The company then weighs more than $ 8 billion in Bourse50. Bibliography 1. "Courses Nokia» on http://finance.google.com 2. ACQUIRE Microsoft to Nokia's handset business for $ 7.2 billion, Reuters, September 3. 3. Huldén Larry "Oliko soopeli Karjalainen turkiseläin? »Viipurin läänin historia II. Jyväskylä Ab Aktiebolag, "corporation" in Finnish 5 Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura faces from Finland: a biographical kaleidoscope, FLS p. [...]

[...] Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications. Became the leading manufacturer of mobile phones in 1998, it remains until 2011 before losing his title the following year as world number one in favor of Samsung. September Nokia separated from his "mobile terminal" decline division to refocus its business on its "network" Nokia and Networks2 Solutions division. Etymology The origin of the term is obscure Finnish Nokia. The most common considers that comes from the old name of the sable to refer to all animals with dark fur hypothesis. [...]

[...] He creates in 1869 a second plant in the town of Nokia (its Nokianvirta river providing greater hydropower), giving the name "Nokia Ab" to his company 18715. Nokia invests in progressively different sectors: industry rubber Gummitehdas Oy Suomen (enterprise producing galoshes, tires), the cable industry with Oy Suomen Kaapelitehdas, the latter diversifying into electronics in 1960. These three companies are jointly owned since 1922 and officially merged in 1967, forming the Nokia group. In the 1970s, the company branched out into television, but continues to be a conglomerate "key to everything" modest in scope. [...]

[...] The Nokia N series was the flagship of the group positioning itself in high- end mobile devices, smartphones position taken by some of the Lumia range. Ringtone mobile Nokia is extracted from Gran Vals, guitar piece composed by Francisco Tárrega in 1902, Nokia enjoying extinction of its copyright. Game console Nokia tried to enter the market of portable gaming with his phone / N-Gage. Output a first end of 2003 in France, the console has received a mixed reception due to his lack of games and design issues. [...]