Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Rumor: Microsoft to buy Nokia?

One of the most important items: Microsoft Nokia, the most prolific producer of mobile phones around the world, although now accepted by Apple's revenue from mobile phones.

The voice comes from the Russian blogger Mutazin Eldar, has the form suggested the negotiations last year between Nokia and Microsoft Windows Mobile, Symbian and Nokia wants to keep all the rigorous thought - since abandoned. Nokia has also quoted in July 2010 that it was some time with their hands on the new Nokia kits - something he was not happy. (The application needs to know.) Of course, he is in contact in the Finnish society.

He predicted that kills the brand Ovi (online store) - the company has opened its doors on Monday. Once again, suggested that the current CEO Stephen Elop (formerly Microsoft as a reminder) leaves at the end of 2012. Stretching our credulity, to be honest, I do not Elop to us as a man who leaves half the job. And even if the monitoring of sales of Microsoft, a new division of cells, is not it time to stop.

Nokia communications director Mark Squires Netherlands Twitter, generally can not comment on rumors. But to say that the Eldar voices are far less clear at all times. What you call the negation of negation can not. Not that this is false. It 's easy to comment on the general form of voices, Eldar.

Assuming, then, assuming that this item is true, as Microsoft has to do more than pay? Nokia's market capitalization is 32 billion dollars (£ 19.7bn), and decreased by 44 billion U.S. dollars in the days before Microsoft tieup Nokia. It looks like from the beginning of the year:

Microsoft stack of money? $8bn dollars to buy Skype, only 32 billion dollars. Hey, the same number! But surely the prize for cell division, non-profit, unlike other branches of Nokia - Maps Navteq company with the disappearance of small losses (-. €62m €262m in sales in the first quarter loss €225m 142 M € to € $ 3.1 last quarter, the loss of 602 € is - on turnover of € 1 billion last year) and the telephone network with Nokia Siemens Networks, which losses are very large (€ 12.6 billion in sales last year.)

Navteq earlier about 25% and a profit of 5% NSR. But NSN loses more.

If Microsoft buys cell division, calms down a huge statue of the shareholders of Nokia, which are two trade pretty useless - NAVTEQ's business model is offered by Google, which offers free cards for mobile phones and the NSN is chewed by Huawei and Ericsson. You can try to sell them, but the reality is that Navteq is depressing and valleys NSN cell division, and not explode. Without it, Nokia is a bit 'more useful, at least from cell division to generate profits and cash.

We expect to manage cash and stock. But this would require more than Microsoft stock to be issued, and that the stock price even more stress to what has already, and leads to the shareholders of Microsoft - is the pain, because it is used to advertise the parties in the last ten years - to scream even louder. If Steve Ballmer was seen in all make mistakes, called it the last straw. Well, I hope not.

Yes, it would be much more strategic point of view, the main supplier of Skype for smartphones in the world (24 million vs. 18 million in Apple, but Apple has more revenue from mobile phones - and so is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones sale, but not the size) will be a powerful combination.

What is a dramatic reversal of the practice that Microsoft has more or less since its inception: the creation of software, you can create other software, hardware. But with the Xbox (J Allard insisted) is finished, the Zune music player (with less success, it is interesting, the proposal Allard).

Microsoft as a product of society? Stranger things have happened - like Apple from the dead. If you continue to watch with fascination. The United States government? (Probably.) If the Finnish government? (Difficult.) Nokia employees in Finland? (Very difficult).

And, of course, others in this entry will never become obsolete. Stephen Elop will and Ballmer did not want to waste time and picked up by this statement in detail. Just look.

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