Noki A Finnish Multinational Communication And Information Technology Company Essay
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INTRODUCTION
Nokia is a finnish multinational communication and information technology company, founded in 1865. Nokia is headquartered in Espoo, Usimaa in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. In 2014, Nokia employed 61,656 people across 120 countries, did business in more than 150 countriesand reported annual revenues of around €12.73billion. The company has had various industries in its 151-year history. Originally founded as a pulp mill ,and current focuses on large-scale telecommunication infra structures,and technology development and licensing.Nokia is also a major contrtibuter to the mobile telephony industry,having assisted in the development of the GSM and LTE standards ,and was,for a period ,the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world.Nokia’s dominance also extended into the smart phone industry through its Symbian platform ,but eventually shadowed by competitors.Nokia eventually entered into a pact with Microsoft in 2011 to exclusively use its windows phone platform on future smartphones.Its mobile phone business was eventually bought by Microsoft in an overall deal totaling $7.17billion .Stephen Elop,Nokia’s former CEO,and several other executives joined the new Microsoft Mobiles subsidiary of Microsoft as part of the deal,which was complete on 25 april 2014 .
Since the sale of its mobile business, Nokia began to focus more extensively on its telecommunications infrastructure business, marked by the divestiture of its Here Maps