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Indeed. And there's no tax advantage to keeping the new company in Finland, so they probably won't. And I'd give dollars to donuts* that Microsoft gets the tra
by quesera 14y ago
Indeed. And there's no tax advantage to keeping the new company in Finland, so they probably won't.
And I'd give dollars to donuts* that Microsoft gets the trademarks. HTC or Samsung might want them, but Microsoft will get first right of refusal, and they won't let them get away.
*Dollars to donuts isn't that compelling in this day and age. Canadian dollars, perhaps.
- sp332 14y agoA Canadian dollar is only $0.974USD right now.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoHave you tried VooDoo Donuts? Those are some serious donuts and well worth a dollar :-)
- tadfisher 14y agoPortland is leaking everywhere these days...
- toyg 14y agoTrademarks? Trademarks are not cool. You know what's cool? PATENTS. Patents in the mobile space, which is currently the most litigious tech sector. Nokia has thousands of them, because they used to be a great engineering company which pioneered mobile TLCs. Their patent war-chest is comparable to Motorola's, if not better. They will be acquired by one of the following companies: a) Apple, b) Google, c) Microsoft. And there won't be any antitrust concerns: the buyer will just sell off any manufacturing activities to some Chinese or Taiwanese company, and place all their patents in a well-protected safe for their lawyers to peruse.