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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by DelwinAmber on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:03AM (#8047549)
It can be argued that their patent portfolio was worth about that much.
Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by bergie on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:16AM (#8047628)
Except that Microsoft didn't get the Nokia patents, merely a license to use them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-nokia-microsoft...