cost cuts

Nokia’s Microsoft Partnership: Does the New Strategy Add Up?

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 11, 2011 at 4:02 am PT

Nokia has already announced the key piece of its strategy–a shift to Windows Phone for its future smartphones. Now the company is set to talk about the financial implications of that and go through the rest of its strategy, which includes a mix of Symbian and even a dash of MeeGo. Mobilized has live coverage of the event, which started at around 4 am PT, or noon here in London.

Nokia Agitating for a Handset Price War?

John Paczkowski in News on February 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Reporting fourth-quarter earnings last week, Nokia said it expects mobile phone sales to climb 10 percent this year. To that end, the company is cutting the prices on many of its handsets. And according to industry sources, Nokia is cutting them by as much as 10 percent.

Yahoo: Crouching Strategy, Hidden Costs Cuts?

Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2008 at 11:26 am PT

Buried deep in a recent New York Times profile of Yahoo Co-Founder and CEO Jerry Yang were largely unexplained references to the names of two new initiatives now taking place within the ranks of Yahoo management. Curiously called Aikido and Judo, after the two best-known forms of Japanese martial arts, they are, in fact, yet another round of navel-gazing strategic overview efforts, aimed at assessing how Yahoo operates its consumer and advertising businesses. And, according to several sources within the company, besides more efforts to streamline Yahoo in both arenas, Aikido and Judo are more specifically looking at what cuts the company can make to meet aggressive financial goals it promised when trying to rebuff a now-defunct takeover bid by Microsoft.