Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement

Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by patkai on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:49PM (#14876983)

I only bought the WiThings thermometer so far, but it's a beautiful product, and funnily Apple seems to be the most natural acquirer for it.

Also, AFAIK Nokia is a brand nowadays, not a company, so it would be more exact to talk about "the owner of the Nokia brand", no?

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Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by pkd on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:57PM (#14877045)

Nokia is still a company. They sold only their mobility business to Microsoft. They are big players in telecommunication hardware. Rajiv Suri is the CEO.

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Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by vonkale on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:51PM (#14877886)

It's actually a really great turnaround story by Nokia. They sold their sinking mobile phone hardware part of the company to Microsoft. They kept their part of the Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and the Nokia Research Center (now Nokia Technologies), which owns all the patents and licenses Nokia has ever developed. They also sold their HERE maps unit to car makers. During all this Nokia bought Siemens share of the NSN and this formed the basis to the new Nokia. Then they bought french networking equipment company Alcatel-Lucent. Now Nokia is one of the worlds largest telecommunications and networking equipment manufacturer along Huawei and Ericsson. Previously Nokia was one of the world largest brands and consumer electronics company.

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Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by patkai on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:02PM (#14877082)

True, I remember reading something complicated about this, but I just looked up the Finnish records: https://www.finder.fi/Televiestint%C3%A4laitteita+ja+palvelu...

Funny thing is that Nokia was established in 1896!

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Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by mattl on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:30PM (#14877318)

Just a couple years after Nintendo in 1889.

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Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by legulere on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:21PM (#14877670)

And only the phone side of it. Nokia Networks is still part of Nokia:

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

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Re:Apple paid Nokia $2B as part of a patent lawsuit settlement by bobsam on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:11PM (#14877146)

I believe you are wrong regarding the new Nokia:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/6niivf/so_is_it_hmd_...

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