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Former CEO of Angry Birds-Maker Rovio Hired To Revive Nokia's Phone Business (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the bring-back-from-the-dead dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Nokia really started to go downhill after it agreed to sell itself to Microsoft at the end of 2013, going all in with Windows Mobile. When that faltered, "Microsoft folded Nokia into its mobile business, maintaining the Finnish company's brand on feature phones, while offering up smartphones under the newly integrated Microsoft Lumia line," reports TechCrunch. In May of this year, Microsoft sold its feature phone business to Foxconn for $350 million. At around the same time, Nokia essentially licensed its brand to Finnish company HMD global Oy to create phones under the Nokia name, "which would be manufactured and distributed by Foxconn." Now, TechCrunch is reporting that Nokia has hired Pikka Rantala, the once CEO of Angry Birds creator Rovio, who stepped down in 2015 after a rough year with the mobile gaming company. He will be joining the company as Chief Marketing Officer.

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  1. Doesn't sound too promising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OTOH it could've been a lot worse. They could've hired Stephen Elop.

  2. They had one by jgfenix · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was to standardize the development in Qt and use Symbian foor feature phones and Maemo (then Meego) for smartphones. Yes, there was infighting (the Symbian section wasn't thrilled) but I thought it was a good plan.

  3. Angry Birds and Nokia by bayankaran · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alrighty then...angry birds dude reviving Nokia is like Donald Trump making America great again.

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