Christopher Lawton

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SAP Not in Merger Talks, CEO Says

Christopher Lawton and Philipp Grontzki, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 1, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

German software giant SAP AG said it isn’t in talks to sell itself, dampening persistent market rumors of an impending deal. “We’re not having any talks with anyone,” SAP co-chief executive Jim Hagemann Snabe said in an interview. He added that the more than 30 percent increase in SAP’s share price over the past year, which added €20 billion ($27.5 billion) to its market value, makes the company a less attractive target.

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Europe's Carriers Defend Turf

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 8, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

TV in Europe is about to change. Amid a flood of heavyweight companies pushing products that deliver Web content and services to the TV set, telecommunications operators in the U.K., France and Germany are defending their turf by beefing up their services.

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Phone Makers Shift Focus

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 15, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

This holiday shopping season, the smartphone battle is going mainstream. Having ceded much of the high end of the smartphone market to Apple Inc., slower-footed rivals such as Research In Motion Ltd., Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. are jostling for what remains up for grabs: cheaper cellphones that still provide Internet capabilities.

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Nokia's Go-It-Alone Strategy

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 16, 2010 at 3:15 pm PT

Stephen Elop’s first major decision as Nokia Corp.’s new chief executive could prove the most critical to the cellphone giant’s future: to continue with a go-it-alone strategy for operating systems rather than adopt Google Inc.’s Android.

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Nokia Prepares to Give Developers a Look at High-End System

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 14, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

It appears we may get a sneak peek of Nokia’s strategy for tackling the high-end device market, currently dominated by Apple’s iPhone and iPad franchises, very soon.

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What App Makers Say About Nokia's Store

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 8, 2010 at 9:45 am PT

This week Nokia took to a mobile conference San Francisco to woo U.S. application developers to its Ovi mobile application store. The company has taken some knocks lately for missing out on a smartphone revolution that has catapulted Apple’s iPhone to godlike status in the Western world.

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An Exiting Nokia Executive on What Went Wrong

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 23, 2010 at 2:06 am PT

If Anssi Vanjoki is anything, he’s direct. At Nokia World in London, the outgoing executive talked about what he did right in his nearly 20 years with the company, what went wrong and why the Finnish handset maker is struggling in the smartphone market.