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Nokia Buys Trolltech

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-bubble dept.

egil writes "Trolltech announced this morning (CET) that they have accepted a bid from Nokia to buy the entire company. The bid was for 16 NOK per share, which values the company at an equivalent of approximately 150 million USD. The stock currently trades at 15.70 on the Oslo stack exchange, up from around 10 on Friday. The offer has already been accepted by the Trolltech BOD."

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  1. Lovely by david@ecsd.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, I suppose, when KDE boots up it's going to play that annoying, "bee de do deh, bee de do deh, bee de do doo dah."

    Can't wait.

  2. Damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn Nokia feeding the trolls.

  3. Re:Parent post is GMAA Final Measure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, what? Opera prevents popups by generating a popup window that asks you if you want to see the popup?

  4. Re:So what happens to Maemo by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 3, Funny

    My guess is that Nokia will probably start reworking Qtopia to better suit their needs. And since their Qt-using competitors don't want a conflict of interest, they'll probably switch to another platform. Why don't we make it GTK+-based? And how about we call it...
    ...Maemo?

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  5. Re:So what happens to Maemo by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    And how will Nokia's competitors that currently use Qt for their mobile products take this?


    "Up the ass", I guess.
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  6. Re:Just prooves - your data is worth more ... by Genom · · Score: 5, Funny

    TrollTech: $150 million
    MySQL: 1 BILLION!

    GTK: ?

    Priceless. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's...aww heck, you know.
  7. NOK is Nokia Stock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    NOK, AAPL, MOT.

  8. Re:KDE Qt Free Foundation by AJWM · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not quite sure why they're picking Trolltech and Qt up,

    Maybe they figured it would work out cheaper to do that than paying per-seat Qt commercial license fees for their 14,000 software developers somebody mentioned. ;-)

    (Seriously though, I doubt that played more than a small part in the decision. Acquisition is something big companies do to keep up the appearance of growth. Perhaps they also wanted to have more influence on the future direction of Trolltech's products.)

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  9. Re:What's a NOK? Are they paying in bananas? by LarsG · · Score: 3, Funny

    NOK is Norwegian Kroner. Currently, 1 USD is approx 5.5 NOK.

    NOK also happens to be Nokia's stock ticker on Nasdaq, I'm sure someone can make a joke about that.

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  10. Rumor time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In other news, Nokia is in negotiations to purchase Novell.