Just woke up to the news of Microsoft buying Nokia. #wow
— Richard Hay (@WinObs) September 3, 2013
That was my reaction when I woke up this morning to the news that we all know by now – well at least everyone who is waking up having gone to bed before midnight on the East Coast last night. As you might imagine the reactions are wide ranging on social media and across the tech blogs.
Here is a quick summary of tech news posts that are out there about this huge deal:
- The Next Chapter- An open letter from Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop (Nokia Conversations)
- Accelerating growth (Microsoft News Center)
- Steve Ballmer email to Microsoft employees on Nokia Devices & Services acquisition (Microsoft News Center)
- Blog Post- Thoughts on today’s Nokia announcement (Windows Team Blog)
- Microsoft Wants to Keep Licensing Windows Phone to Others, Post-Nokia Deal (All Things D)
- With Nokia Acquisition, Microsoft is Definitely a Devices and Services Company (Technologizer)
- More perspective on the Nokia news (Windows Blog)
- Reaction- Here’s what people think about Microsoft’s huge Nokia acquisition (GeekWire)
- Microsoft Confirms It Gets Less Than $10 Per Nokia Windows Phone Sold (All Things D)
- Microsoft- Economics make Nokia a ‘smart acquisition’ (GeekWire)
- Here are the parts of Nokia that Microsoft ISN’T buying (The Next Web)
- Microsoft’s Nokia Deal by the Numbers (All Things D)
- Microsoft buys Nokia’s phone business for $7.1 billion (ARS Technica)
- Microsoft EVP- We bought Nokia, but we still love our other Windows Phone partners (Engadget)
- Microsoft makes its Apple move, bringing Nokia and Elop into fold (cNet)
- Some key points in the Microsoft – Nokia deal (Liveside)
- Nokia Interim CEO- We Have Three Strong Businesses Remaining (All Things D)
- Six things Nokia did to make the modern cell phone (cNet)
- Microsoft buys Nokia handset unit- It’s an end-to-end world after all (cNet)
- Why Microsoft wants to buy Nokia’s device business (The Next Web)
- Make no mistake- Nokia is the biggest deal in Microsoft’s history (GeekWire)
- Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia’s Top Designer, to Leave Company in November (All Things D)
- Infographic- continuing reinvention at Nokia and Microsoft (Nokia Conversations)
- Ballmer confirms what we all knew- Elop candidate for Microsoft CEO job (Engadget)
- Does its Nokia buy thwart or fuel a possible Microsoft break-up? (All About Microsoft)
- My First Nine Questions About Microsoft’s Nokia Acquisition (Technologizer)
- Nokia- selling phone business to Microsoft painful but necessary (cNet)
- So Much for BlackBerry’s Clear Shot at Being No. 3 in the Smartphone Market (All Things D)
Of course much more to follow on this one!
