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S&P downgrades cellphone maker Nokia

Rating agency Standard and Poor's on Wednesday downgraded Finnish cellphone maker Nokia's long-term corporate credit rating to BB-, from BB+, citing the likelihood of the company's deteriorating profi

Nokia sees Q2 net loss deepen four-fold to 1.41 bn euros

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Nokia posted a deep second quarter net loss on Thursday of 1.41 billion euros ($1.74 billion), four times more than during the same period a year earlier and more than double the loss expected by anal

It is ‘succeed or die’ for Nokia, observers say after cuts

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Nokia's surprise announcement of massive new spending cuts and 10,000 more layoffs had observers cautioning the beleaguered mobile phone giant is at a crossroads that will determine if it sinks or swims.

Nokia to cut up to 10,000 jobs globally by end-2013

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Finland's Nokia, one of the world's biggest mobile phone makers, announced on Thursday that it planned to cut up to 10,000 jobs by the end of 2013 due to massive additional cost-savings measures.

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Samsung denies interest in Nokia

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Samsung Electronics denied it was interested in acquiring Nokia, sending shares in the Finnish mobile phone company down 2 per cent.

Nokia shares rose 6 per cent last Friday on speculation of a possi

Two dead, seven injured in Finland gunman shooting

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Police arrested on Saturday an 18-year-old man suspected of killing two people and wounding seven others in a shooting targeting restaurants packed with teenagers in southern Finland.

The gunman had

Samsung may overtake Nokia for cellphone crown

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Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd ended Nokia Oyj's 14-year leadership of the global cellphone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling Finnish handset maker for the first t

‘Singh-Merkel’ formula can help

A formula converging the views of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has the potential to contribute to breaking the logjam in international climate negotiations, rural

Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs in Finland, Hungary and Mexico

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World-leading mobile phone maker Nokia intends to cut 4,000 jobs at its smartphone manufacturing facilities in Finland, Hungary and Mexico by the end of 2012, it said on Wednesday.

"The expected head

Finnair crew's Bollywood jig goes viral

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This is something an air passenger will least expect on a flight even of an Indian carrier -- a Bollywood jig by a foreign crew, all dressed in dazzling salwar kameez and traditional Indian attires!

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