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The Nokia Torture

June 18, 2012 – 10:04 am

TweetHow would you like to be a Nokia employee? Last week the bosses came up with more bad news: In order to cut 3B€ (about $3.8B) in expenses by the end of 2013, another 10,000 employees will be shown the door — this after earlier cutting payroll by 4,000 people. The news came couched in [...]

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Nokia: Three Big Problems

April 22, 2012 – 9:44 pm

TweetNokia’s results for Q1 2012 are in: They’re not good. (See the earnings release here, Management’s Conference Call presentation here.) Compared to the same quarter last year, Nokia overall revenue is down 29%, to $9.7B. And the company is now losing money, $1.8B, 18.5% of revenue. [Nokia’s official numbers are stated in euros, I convert [...]

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Lumia 800: Nokia’s Comeback?

February 12, 2012 – 8:31 pm

TweetLet’s go back to Spring 2010. Nokia friends invite me to their US headquarters in White Plains, NY, where we’ll discuss Apple with an audience of local management and remote viewers in Europe. As the conversation proceeds, I’m struck not by what I hear but by what I don’t. They’re right to wonder about Apple, [...]

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Will Microsoft buy RIM or Nokia?

January 15, 2012 – 8:15 pm

TweetWe continue along the lines of last week’s Monday Note kriegsspiel with the latest speculation Will Microsoft, at long last, buy RIM? The idea has been kicked around for at least five years: Days after the iPhone’s introduction in January 2007, Seeking Alpha suggested that the Xbox maker ought to buy RIM in order to [...]

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2011: Shift Happens

December 18, 2011 – 10:59 pm

TweetWhatever 2011 was, it wasn’t The Year Of The Incumbent. The high-tech world has never seen the ground shift under so many established companies. This causes afflicted CEOs to exhibit the usual symptoms of disorientation: reorg spams, mindless muttering of old mantras and, in more severe cases, speaking in tongues, using secret language known only [...]

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Mobile World Clusterf#^k — 2011 Edition

February 20, 2011 – 2:50 pm

TweetPlus ça change…et plus. We are at this year’s Mobile World Congress, held last week in Barcelona. One of the usual suspects, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, stands and delivers the new and improved party line: App Stores are bad. Stephenson wants cross-platform apps delivered through the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), whose “commercial launch’’ takes place [...]

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Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges

September 12, 2010 – 5:39 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Here we are, back from last June’s Nokia science-fiction romp. The company has finally elected a new CEO to replace OPK, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. 43-year-old Stephen Elop’s bona fides are in order: As President of Microsoft’s Business Division (since January 2008) he was in charge of the Microsoft Office money machine and was [...]

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