Nokia to buy Norway's Trolltech
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Mobile telephone giant Nokia Corp. on Monday announced a deal to take over Oslo software company Trolltech ASA with a cash offer that values the Norwegian company at nearly $153 million.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has signed an agreement to acquire Germany's mobile mapping and navigation equipment producer, gate5, for an undislosed sum.
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The world's top handset maker Nokia   NOK1V.HE and the largest video games publisher Electronic   Arts ERTS.O said on Tuesday EA will start to offer mobile   games to current and next generation Nokia phones.
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Nokia Siemens Networks will buy Apertio, which specializes in network management applications for telecommunications operators, for &#8364;140 million ($205 million), the companies said Wednesday.Apertio, in Bristol, England, sells a software application suite with components for managing mobile phone subscribers. Features allow operators to authenticate and deliver applications to users, shut off lost handsets and collect real-time data on subscribers.The management and consolidation of subscriber data is becoming more important, particularly as operators offer &quot;converged&quot; services, the term for offerings that combine mobile, fixed-line and Internet-based services, the companies said.The deal is expected to close by May. When complete, Paul Magelli, Apertio&#39;s CEO, will head a new section within the Converged Core business of Nokia Siemens.Apertio&#39;s software and equipment is used by operators such as Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone. Apertio, a private company, estimates its 2007 revenue at &#8364;28 million.&#160;
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The world's top cell phone maker Nokia   plans to build social networking technology acquired  with U.S. firm Twango into its key S60 software, a company  official said on Wednesday.
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Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Monday it is  buying U.S. cellphone screen advertising firm Enpocket as the  world&#39;s top handset maker pushes into a market which is seen  ballooning in coming years.
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Nokia intends to boost its mobile ad business through the acquisition of Enpocket, which provides cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers, Web publishers, and carriers.
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Nokia, the world&#39;s top mobile phone  maker, said on Tuesday it would buy U.S.-based photo-sharing  social networking site Twango (http://www.twango.com/), but did  not disclose the price.
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Mobile technology firm Nokia has  sealed a deal with operator Vodafone Group Plc on customizing  software for the operator's smartphones, the companies said in  a joint statement on Tuesday.
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Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia Corp. will offer mobile anti-virus software through F-Secure Corp. as one of the features in its new Nokia 6670 smart phone when it is released in October, the companies announced Thursday.
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Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for $153 million.
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The world's top handset maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it has agreed with Microsoft   to integrate Live Search capabilities into Nokia's  Mobile Search.
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Shifts towards open source for handsets and tablets Analysis Nokia may be strengthening its ties with major internet brands to boost its Ovi web services portal, but for a company of this scale, there must also be an agenda to set its own standards in the evolving mobile internet market on which it has staked its future. The Finnish giant's latest software acquisition, of Norwegian Linux player Trolltech, gives it a strong vehicle to launch its own bid to dominate mobile open source standards, an area where Google and Intel have already made aggressive moves. This sees the handset giant making its strongest commitment yet to Linux in its Series 60 smartphone market, and setting Trolltech's Qt platform against other would-be dominant mobile web systems like Google Android and Intel Mobilin.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia intends to boost its mobile ad business through the acquisition of Enpocket, which provides cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers, Web publishers, and carriers. Nokia announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Enpocket, whose technology platform and business partnerships Nokia expects will allow it to rev up its products and services inÂ mobile advertising, a market poised for robust growth. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal. After years of great promise and unmet expectations, mobile advertising is expected to boom in coming years, going from a tiny market to a considerable one. Last week, The Kelsey Group predicted that spending on mobile search and display advertising in the U.S. will hit $33.2 million this year and grow at a compound annual rate of 112 percent through 2012, when it will total $1.4 billion. Kelsey Group also expects the number of mobile Internet users to grow at a 20 percent compound annual clip in the U.S. through 2012, when there will be almost 92 million people going online via their cell phones. Worldwide, mobile ad spending is expected to reach $1.5 billion this year and grow to $11.3 billion by 2011, according to market researcher Informa Telecoms & Media. As mobile phones become a viable vehicle for online marketing, all major telecom, online publishing, and Internet players are jockeying for position in this market. Those pursuing the mobile ad opportunity include online service giants like Google and Yahoo; mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless; and handset manufacturers like Apple and Nokia. Nokia expects to close the Enpocket acquisition in this year's fourth quarter. Enpocket, based in Boston, offers the Enpocket Platform, which the vendor describes as a "carrier-grade mobile campaign management and delivery system" designed for operators, advertisers and publishers. It has customers in Europe, Asia and the U.S., including Vodafone, Pepsi, Telefonica, AT&T, British Telecom, and Sprint. Eden Zoller, an Ovum analyst, wrote in a note e-mailed to the media that Nokia does well in acquiring Enpocket, because the company is a strong mobile advertising specialist whose technology platform has a solid analytics component. "Enpocket gives Nokia a leg up in mobile advertising and credibility that it needs to be taken seriously in the space," Zoller wrote. Â
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The world's top handset maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it had agreed to buy mapping  software firm gate5 AG for an undisclosed sum to tap into the  fast-growing mobile navigation market.
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Nokia signed a contract with the Libyan post office for a nationwide mobile-phone network in a deal valued at &#36;146 million, the Finnish company said Monday.
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The world's top handset maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) and the largest video games publisher Electronic  Arts  said on Tuesday EA will start to offer mobile  games to current and next generation Nokia phones.