Nokia’s headquarters will be in Finland to stay. That has Stephen Elop, executive director of the company, Sunday night said on Finnish television. Past few months were rumours that the Canadian Nokia wanted to move to another country.
Nokia has much to benefit from talent in Finland, making the company as long as Elop is ceo, is headquartered in Helsinki’s suburbs, Espoo will keep, said Elop during a tv-interview on the Finnish channel Yle. In recent months crossed now and then rumours about a possible move of Nokia to another country. Elop is the first ceo of Nokia that is not from Finland.
Elop fired during the fifteen months that he was at the helm for thousands of people, many in Finland. Then came rumors that he is the headquarters of Nokia wants to move, but according to Elop, Finland is the home of the mobieltjesmaker.
Under Elop stopped Nokia with the development of its own operating systems MeeGo and Symbian. Symbian was outsourced to Accenture. Instead, it works Nokia for smartphones with Windows Phone from Microsoft. For cheap phones, Nokia is still S40, but according to rumors there will be a next year, a Linux-based operating system for in the place that now code-named Meltemi.