Nokia appoints new managing director after sales telefoondivisie to Microsoft

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Nokia has a new director appointed after the sale of the telefoontak to Microsoft. The boss of Nokia Siemens Networks will be the Finnish company now lead. Nokia is focussing on location-based services and is already profitable.

The new director is the in India born Rajeev Suri and he introduces himself in a video addressed to the public, investors and employees of the Finnish company. Suri focuses clearly on location-based services and network technology by NSN. “The coming changes in technology are just as groundbreaking as the invention of the internet. We come closer to a world where everyone and everything is connected. At Nokia, we see our role as a company what intelligent connection, not only with technology, but also with location-based services and much more.”

Where that ‘much more’ refers to, is unknown: Nokia retains a part of its r&d staff and works according to previous rumors include, among others, a smart pair of glasses with eyetracking. The manufacturer may, subject to the agreement with Microsoft no phones release, but other mobile gadgets belong to the possibilities. Microsoft took over Nokia’s telefoondivisie Friday, so the Finnish manufacturer after more than twenty years of the mobile market disappears.

Nokia turned without the inclusion of the telefoontak a profit of around 300 million euros in recent months; the telefoontak shows in the last few months under the auspices of the Finnish loss-making. Nokia sold more Lumia’s and other smartphones, is evident from the quarterly figures. How many there were, says the manufacturer.

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