【oneday_onepage】——Microsoft to acquire Nokia's mobile phone business

Nokia will focus on network infrastructure, mapping and locations services and technology development and licensing

September 03, 2013, 1:26 AM — Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of €5.44 billion (US$7 billion) in cash, the companies said Monday.

The Redmond, Washington, software company will pay €3.79 billion for "substantially all" of the Devices & Services business and €1.65 billion to license Nokia's patents at the close of the transaction.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will be coming back to Microsoft and lead an expanded devices team, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in an email to employees.(Microsoft said it will draw on its overseas cash resources to fund the transaction.

 

"Building on the partnership with Nokia announced in February 2011 and the increasing success of Nokia's Lumia smartphones, Microsoft aims to accelerate the growth of its share and profit in mobile devices through faster innovation, increased synergies, and unified branding and marketing," it said in a statement. ((

Nokia has been building smartphones around Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in a bid to boost flagging market share, besides focusing on feature phones for emerging markets.

Following the transaction, Nokia plans to focus on its network infrastructure and services business called NSN, its HERE mapping and location services, and Advanced Technologies, focused on technology development and licensing. It will continue to own and maintain the Nokia brand but will license it to Microsoft for a 10-year period to use the brand on current mobile phones and some subsequently developed phones.

Risto Siilasmaa will take over as interim CEO for Nokia while continuing to serve as chairman of Nokia's board. He will have four direct reports: Michael Halbherr, executive vice president of HERE; Elop as executive vice president of Devices & Services; Timo Ihamuotila, Nokia CFO and interim president; and Jesper Ovesen, executive chairman of the NSN board of directors, Nokia said.

The Finnish company will continue to have its headquarters in Finland. About 32,000 people are expected to transfer to Microsoft at closing, including approximately 4,700 people in Finland. Nokia employed about 56,000 people in addition at the end of the second quarter of 2013.

Microsoft will also acquire Nokia's design team, manufacturing and assembly facilities around the world, and operations, sales, marketing and support teams, Ballmer wrote in his email to employees. Ballmer announced recently that he was retiring at some point in the next 12 months from the post of CEO of Microsoft. Elop has been cited in reports as a possible contender for the post.

微软收购诺基亚的手机业务

诺基亚将会致力于网络基础设施、地图，定位服务，技术开发和转让。
2013 9 03 1:26 AM 微软收购诺基亚的设备和服务业务，包括智能手机业务和转让芬兰公司的所有专利，总共是54。4亿美元。
微软华盛顿总部将支出37.9亿购买诺基亚的设备和服务，后期将会支出16.5亿购买诺基亚的专利。
诺基亚CEO Stephen Elop 将会回到微软，领导一个更大的设备团队，微软的CEO Steve Ballmer在一封至员工的邮件中表示。
诺基亚一直围绕微软的windows phone操作系统的智能手机在投标，以刺激萎靡不振的市场份额，除了专注与新兴市场的功能手机。
交易之后诺基亚将会专注与他们的网络基础设施，服务业务，叫做NSN，他们的HERE地图和定位服务，高新技术，技术开发和转让。他们将会继续维护诺基亚这个品牌，但是将会转让给微软十年，让他们在当前的手机业务和之后的一些随后开发的手机中使用诺基亚品牌。
Risto Siilasmaa将会接管暂时的CEO职位，并且继续担任诺基亚董事会的主席。他将会有四个报告：Michael Halbherr担任HERE的执行副总裁。Elop担任硬件设备和服务的执行副总裁。 Timo Ihamuotila 诺基亚CFO和临时总裁。Jesper Ovesen担任NSN董事会的董事长。
芬兰的公司的总部仍然在芬兰。大约三万两千人在最后将会成为微软的员工，大约包括在芬兰的四千七百人。诺基亚员工约五万六千人，除了在2013第二季度结束。
微软也获得了诺基亚的设计团队、制造和组装在全球的机构，运营，销售，市场和维护团队。鲍尔默在他至员工的电子邮件中写到，他宣布他将会在接下来的12个月中在某一个时间从微软首席执行官的位置上退下来。从这份报告可以看出Elop将会成为下一个继承者。