A Finnish handset maker whose phone unit Microsoft acquired.
Acquired · Jul 21Nokia threatened to go Android, so Microsoft paid about $7 billion for its handset unit. Ballmer reasoned that Microsoft had $27 billion of 2013 operating income, while the board and division heads including Nadella opposed it.
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Lenny's Podcast · Jan 21Nokia lost its lead partly because a matrix organization and a shift from engineers to lawyers and accountants left no one with authority to build a touchscreen phone, though its CEO kept demanding one.
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