Friday, February 25

Nokia, Microsoft team against Google, Apple

HELSINKI - Nokia and Microsoft teamed up on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smart take phone market.

In a significant change in strategy Nokia said it Windows phone software platform for their smartphones as part of the new Chief Executive Stephen Elop's overhaul would use the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

The Finnish firm said Friday it would work closely with Windows phone "innovative on the platform in the field of imaging, where Nokia is the market leader."

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"Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to deliver an ecosystem with unmatched global reach and scope." It now is a three horse race "added Elop."

Friday's deal marks to establish a major breakthrough for Microsoft after years of struggle in wireless. Its Windows phone had a mere 2 percent market parts in the last quarter.

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Microsoft Windows phone platform but not yet success with consumers is widely regarded by industry experts as a leading technology.

"This is a partnership that fear of marginalization in the hands of Apple and Google, born of both parties but there is no silver bullet," said CCS insight analyst Geoff Blaber.

Nokia has lost at higher margins smartphone market Apple's iPhone and products based on Google's Android platform last quarter claimed the top spot by the company, quickly share.

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"This is a very open admission that Nokia's platform strategy has failed and underlines the seriousness of the Nokia position." Such a move unthinkable just 12 months would have been "added Blaber."

Chairman Jorma Ollila Elop Microsoft brought in a bid limit Nokia's losses last September. The 47-year-old is the first non-Finn at the head of the society.

Nokia said in a statement that it with its current management team with a senior executive stick would leave. There was speculation about a wider cull at the company.

Nokia also said it would use on their mobile phones, Microsoft Bing search engine a huge market for Microsoft potentially opening because you tried to build his challenge for Google as the world's leading search engine.

The Finnish company that invested billions of dollars in building mobile Internet services under its former CEO, had effectively admitted defeat in his services strategy join forces with Microsoft said analysts.

The associated press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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