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    Chuck Gao
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    same rumors on Chinese news. Let's see what happen next week.

    Chuck

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      gedd
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      Can you imagine the ticket price ??
      Skype 8,5 Md$ : never win a dollar
      Nokia XX? Md$ : Major actor in mobile phone, about 29 MD$ CA

      Gedd

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        ivan.todorovich
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        [quote author="gedd" date="1305650926"]Can you imagine the ticket price ??
        Skype 8,5 Md$ : never win a dollar
        Nokia XX? Md$ : Major actor in mobile phone, about 29 MD$ CA [/quote]

        This is a quote from the link Dieter provided:

        [quote]What’s fascinating about this rumor is the numbers. After last week’s $8.5 billion Skype acquisition, Microsoft has about $32 billion left in cash reserves. And, as The Guardian points out, Nokia’s market capitalization is just shy of $32 billion. Coincidence?[/quote]

        o_o Sorry for my rusted english.

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          gedd
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          Do you think that Skype's market capitalisation was $8.5 billion ?
          At least the proposition must be 2x the market value to be serious.
          Let's wait and see , no ?

          Gedd

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            qtrahul
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            It was just rumor Nokia is Big company, Largest handset manufacturer, they won't do it.

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              tipul07
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              [quote author="qtrahul" date="1306761894"]It was just rumor Nokia is Big company, Largest handset manufacturer, they won't do it.[/quote]

              Well they just dropped their hands off of Qt (major role in their new platform) what would hold them in selling anything that makes kching??

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                ucomesdag
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                A new rumor on the subject on tweakers.net:

                "Microsoft buys Nokia phones division for 19 billion U.S. dollars":http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://tweakers.net/nieuws/74813/microsoft-koopt-telefoonafdeling-nokia-voor-19-miljard-dollar.html&usg=ALkJrhjhlcUZBT6y3uwKi_MIQk7qzOlmlQ

                "Tweet the article refers to":https://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/75664430670680065

                Write “Qt”, not “QT” (QuickTime).

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                  andre
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                  Same Russian source, by the way. I hope he is wrong...

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                    ucomesdag
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                    [quote author="Andre" date="1306953303"]Same Russian source, by the way. I hope he is wrong...[/quote]
                    I totally second that... I just wonder what will be left of Nokia if they would sell.

                    Write “Qt”, not “QT” (QuickTime).

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                      kidproquo
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                      From the D9 interview with Stephen Elop:

                      Stephen: "We will remain in possession of the hardware business. The rumors are baseless."

                      Stephen: "It doesn't make sense when you think about it. Look at the synergies between the companies -- if you sell, you destroy value in the process."

                      I think that settles that rumour, at least for now.

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                        lgeyer
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                        "Tomi Ahonen":http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/ has recently published an interesting article about possible Nokia buyouts: "Quick Thoughts on Nokia as Takeover Target":http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/06/quick-thoughts-on-nokia-as-takeover-target-samsung-facebook-microsoft-and-others.html.

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                          miroslav
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                          Tomi Ahonen is always an enjoyable read :-)

                          Mirko Boehm | mirko@kde.org | KDE e.V.
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