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• Nokia hires former Finnish prime minister

  - 2008-08-15

  HELSINKI AFP — The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia has hired former Finnish prime minister Esko Aho as the firm's new head of corporate relations, the company said Friday. Nokia said in a statement Aho, who was centrist prime minister in 1991-1995, would begin at the company in...

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• EU regulators clear Nokia's takeover of Navteq

  - 2008-07-02

  BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission gave the greenlight on Wednesday to Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia's purchase of US digital navigation group Navteq after finding the deal would not hurt competition. "After an in-depth examination, launched in March 2008, the commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly...

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• Nokia's first quarter results disappoint

  - 2008-04-17

  HELSINKI AFP — Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, posted strong first quarter results Thursday, but its market share slipped and missed analyst forecasts, sending its share price tumbling. Nokia shares closed with a loss of 13.51 percent at 18.12 euros, their lowest level in a year, on...

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• German officials look into Nokia state subsidies

  - 2008-01-26

  BERLIN AFP — German officials said Saturday they were looking into whether Nokia, which recently said it would close its factory in the western city of Bochum, had received more state subsidies than it was due. A spokesman for the economy ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia NRW said the world's...

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• Anti-Nokia anger grows in Germany

  - 2008-01-19

  BERLIN AFP — Anger in Germany against mobile phone giant Nokia for closing a factory grew on Saturday with the head of one of the parties in the governing coalition joining the calls for a boycott. "As far as I am concerned there will be no Nokia mobile phone...

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• German unions call for Nokia boycott

  - 2008-01-17

  FRANKFURT AFP — The DGB confederation of German trade unions called Thursday for a boycott of Nokia, the world's leading maker of mobile telephones, in response to the planned closure of a western German factory. "Boycott Nokia" was the title of a statement sent from a DGB branch in...

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• German unions say Nokia plant closure threatens western region

  - 2008-01-15

  BERLIN AFP — A confederation of German unions warned Tuesday that a decision by Finnish group Nokia to close its plant in western Bochum threatened the region's economic future. The world's leading maker of mobile telephones is the second-biggest employer in Bochum behind car maker Opel, the DGB confederation...

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• Waste water poisons Finnish town: officials

  - 2007-12-07

  HELSINKI AFP — Hundreds of people in the Finnish town of Nokia have fallen ill with diarrhoea and vomiting after a worker at a sewage plant mistakenly contaminated the water supply, city officials said Friday. The town has been without drinking water for more than a week and 15,000...

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• Indian woman hurt as Nokia phone battery explodes

  - 2007-09-01

  KOLKATA, India AFP — A pregnant woman suffered burns in eastern India after the battery of her Nokia mobile phone exploded minutes after she put the handset on charge, police said Saturday. The Finnish phone maker warned last month in front-page advertisements in leading Indian dailies that some of...

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• India overtakes US to become Nokia's second-biggest market: company

  - 2007-08-23

  HELSINKI AFP — Nokia, the world's number one handset manufacturer, said Thursday that India had overtaken the United States to become its second-biggest market, after China. "India is playing an increasingly important role in the global economy buoyed by impressive economic growth, skilled manpower and tremendous business opportunity," said...

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