Nokia Plans to Cut Jobs and Sell R&D Unit
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Finnish phone maker Nokia said it will close a manufacturing plant and is in talks to sell a research and development unit in Bochum to Sasken Technologies.
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The exact number of layoffs, which are focused in Nokia's multimedia division and mostly in Finland and Germany, will be decided later, said Kari Tuutti, head of the division's information department.
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Leading world mobile handset maker  Nokia  is set to announce three new phones aimed at  business users on Monday, the International Herald Tribune  newspaper reported.
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Motorola Inc. MOT.N, the world's No.  2 maker of cell phones, on Tuesday said it would cut 1,000 jobs  in three of its units as it puts its effort behind wireless  communications in an increasingly competitive market.
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Nokia , the world's top mobile  phone maker, expects the global multimedia phone market to grow  to 120 million units this year from 80 million in 2006, its  Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said on Wednesday.
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InfoWorld - Mobile phone maker Nokia will lay off 2,300 employees at a German plant and move production to lower-cost European sites, the company announced Tuesday.
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Cell phone maker Motorola Inc. said Wednesday it will cut another 4,000 jobs as part of a plan to improve sagging financial and operational results.
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Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top  cellphone maker, said on Tuesday it plans to close its plant in  Bochum, Germany, by mid-2008 and may cut up to 2,300 staff as  it moves production to lower-cost regions.
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The mobile phone giant Nokia said that Sari Baldauf, head of its networks unit and long seen as a possible successor to company chief Jorma Ollila, will leave the group early next year.
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Nokia plans to fold all its mobile phone development efforts into a single new business unit.
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Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer, is to start making handsets in India.
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Cell phone maker Motorola Inc. said Wednesday it will cut another 4,000 jobs as part of a plan aimed at improving sagging financial and operational results.
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Top mobile phone maker Nokia plans to cut hundreds of jobs in Finland and abroad as it seeks to curb research spending, but said on Tuesday it would also boost production staff at a key handset plant.
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Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 maker  of cell phones, on Tuesday said it would cut 1,000 jobs in  three of its units as it puts its effort behind wireless  communications in an increasingly competitive market.
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InfoWorld - Nokia plans to fold all its mobile phone development efforts into a single new business unit, reflecting the growing importance&#160;of its business of multimedia and Internet-enabled devices.
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HELSINKI--The world&#39;s largest mobile phone maker, Nokia, expects slowing mobile phone growth in 2005 but plans to launch more handsets next year and take market share, the firm said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia isn't just a phone company any more. At least that's what executives at the company's headquarters in Helsinki say. In the "old days" of the 1990s, Nokia focused on developing technologies for communicating via voice and data, said Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center. But now and into the future, Nokia expects to move away from a telecom-centric approach into an information technology way of thinking, he said. The shift mimics a similar move in other industries, such as the computer market, that began centered on hardware. "Look at the PC," he said. "The market grows, devices become more capable, there's a shift in the value chain to software, services, and solutions." Similarly, now, Nokia isn't just about radios -- the component in mobile phones that communicates over the air, he said. Evidence of the change appears in an array of announcements from Nokia about partnerships with content companies and new software offerings. For example, Nokia has had agreements with Flickr and Yahoo Mail to link directly to those services on some Nokia phones. Also, on Tuesday, Nokia launched a new piece of software and aÂ service for displaying widgetsÂ on mobile phones. Nokia is so focused on software and services that its chief technology officer recently moved to New York City to be closer to companies that are global leaders in the industries. "The biggest software companies in the world are in the U.S.," said Tero Ojanpera, chief technology officer for Nokia, explaining his move. He named Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google as important companies that Nokia wishes to grow closer to. He also wants to be near the leading media companies. "Nokia, more and more, is a lifestyle company and that has to do with media," Ojanpera said. "The best in the world are in New York and Los Angeles." In addition, many of the venture capital companies that fund new technologies are based in Silicon Valley and he hopes to build closer relationships with them too. Ojanpera's list of Nokia's technology priorities indicate the shift in thinking at the company, which hasn't quite fully banished the radio yet. The priorities include: embrace the Internet, excel with software applications and services, win developers with a consistent architecture, and lead the multi-radio market.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.