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| | | Microsoft to buy Nokia mobile phone unit for €5.4bn | | | Microsoft is buying Nokia's mobile phone business and patents for €5.44bn in an all-cash deal that will reshape the telecoms industry in two continents.
The US company will pay €3.79bn for "substantially all" of Nokia's phone unit and €1.65bn to licence its patents in a big bet from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's outgoing chief executive, that the Finnish group's mobiles can rival Apple and Samsung's. | | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help | | | | © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 | You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page.
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