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I don’t see why MS would do this—at least, not now. The MS-Nokia partnership agreement has just been finalized and it will be another year, at least, before th
by sethg 15y ago
I don’t see why MS would do this—at least, not now. The MS-Nokia partnership agreement has just been finalized and it will be another year, at least, before the market can pass judgement on Nokia Winphones. So why would MS dump an eleven-figure sum right now on another Nokia transaction?
(Disclaimer: I work for Nokia.)
- limmeau 15y agoInvest the European branch's cash in the EU instead of paying the taxes for taking it home to the US? (Disclaimer: I don't work for an international tax avoidance consultancy)
- seabee 15y agoDo you have to spend it right away? Making a bad investment for the sake of investment strikes me as foolish. It's not clear how good an investment it would be, but it should be clearer a year or two down the line
- limmeau 15y agoThey could leverage best-of-breed synergies: there is already a Skype port for Symbian.
- mey 15y agoAlso one of the theories on why the bought Skype. Apparently MS has a lot of cash internationally that they need to dispose of...