Ina Fried in Mobile on February 8 at 12:55 am PT
The Finnish cellphone maker plans to reduce the amount of work done at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Salo, Finland.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 20 at 1:14 pm PT
The former head of Nokia Networks has been an HP director since 2006.
Christopher Lawton and Arild Moen, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 20, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
Nokia swung to a second successive net loss in the third quarter, but reported better-than-expected results thanks to higher sales of its low-end cell phones. Its shares rose more than 8 percent, as results highlighted an increase in shipments of its cheaper feature phones.
Sven Grunberg and Niclas Rolander, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on September 12, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Google Inc.’s opening of a €200 million ($273 million) server hall in Hamina, Finland, over the weekend is boosting Scandinavian hopes that other big Internet companies will choose to build data centers in the region, attracted by its cold climate and low electricity prices.
Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 10, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Angry Birds is flapping from touch screens to big screens, books and toys, testing whether one of the best-known mobile apps can become an entertainment franchise akin to Mickey Mouse and Iron Man.
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 11, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The partnership began with cocktails in Redmond, and snowshoeing and saunas in Finland.
Now Nokia and Microsoft have settled into the hard task ahead — trying to catch Apple and Google in the fast-moving smartphone industry.
In an exclusive interview, the heads of that effort talk to
AllThingsD about the uphill effort and how they are managing to bridge the cultural and geographical divides.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 25, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
What do you get when you cross a social game like FarmVille with elements from a hardcore online game like World of Warcraft? You get Supercell.
News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 3, 2011 at 3:23 pm PT
Disney has acquired Helsinki, Finland-based
Rocketpack, which is working on developing games for the browser using HTML5. In a statement, a spokesperson said: “We can confirm that The Walt Disney Company has acquired Rocketpack, an integrated solution for plugin-free browser game development.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rocketpack will be a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, reporting into Disney Interactive Media Group. The acquisition
was first reported by TechCrunch.
John Paczkowski in News on February 11, 2011 at 7:02 am PT
Nokia’s decision to make Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS its primary smartphone platform is a bold move. It’s also one that presages a tough next couple of years for the Finnish company and significant layoffs.
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.
