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Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by Nullabillity on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:44AM (#11572817)
And before that, everyone's reaction was: "Wait, isn't Nokia a tire company?"
Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by matco11 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:27PM (#11573829)
That's Nokian Tyres.
Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by Nullabillity on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:00PM (#11574150)
Same company. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Tyres :

> A three-company merger formed the Nokia Corporation in 1967; Nokian Tyres Limited was established in 1988 as a joint venture company split from the conglomerate as Nokia Corporation started focusing entirely on the mobile communications business.

Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by HelloRipley on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:24PM (#11573202)
Rubber boots.
Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by ptaipale on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:33PM (#11573294)
And before that, wood pulp and tissue paper.

The name of the company comes from a river which is the location of that wood pulp mill (sold out by Nokia over 20 years ago).

Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by HelloRipley on Thursday April 28, 2016 @04:51PM (#11591805)
Isn't nokiankoski where someone mixed up the sewage in / drinking water out lines?
Re:Withings acquired by Nokia by ptaipale on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:12PM (#11598801)
Just the town of Nokia. In 2007 it turned out that years ago, someone had designed a stupid arrangement at the wastewater treatment facility where a freshwater pipe was used to flush the sewage side. But if a maintenance man left the tap on, and put the sewage process going, some of the sewage would go backwards, into the freshwater side. A couple of thousand people were infected by norovirus or campylobacteria. Highly unusual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_water_supply_contaminati...