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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by blahbl4hblahtoo on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:54AM (#6668468)
It's really weird how people have started to anthropomorphize these corporations and their products...why do this? If you could raise billions you could start a new endeavor?

Nokia isn't an old friend of yours. There's nothing to "save". Raise your billions and hire some of their designers if you like the work that they do.

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by otoburb on Monday November 04, 2013 @09:18AM (#6668603)
Nokia's brand premium is worth quite a lot to some people, representing (at the very least) a quicker path to making money since you technically don't need to educate everybody about a new brand.
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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by davissorenson on Monday November 04, 2013 @09:02AM (#6668507)
> There's nothing to "save".

To be fair, there's a lot of intellectual property at stake.

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by basch on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:58PM (#6670037)
Nokia kept all its intellectual property.
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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by ohwp on Monday November 04, 2013 @09:04AM (#6668522)
Well if it worked that way someone already would have done that wouldn't they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by adventured on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:25AM (#6669027)
1) There's $12 billion in cash in Nokia, representing 42% of their market valuation

2) There's a lot of intellectual property

3) There's a global brand

4) I think it's safe to assume there are a lot of excellent people that still work for Nokia

There's a lot to be "saved." Whether Nokia could be turned around on its own is another matter.

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