Nokia recently reported quarterly results.   Revenues were flat to a year ago (compare Apple at up 62%).   Profits were down 64% (compare Apple up 78%).  According to BusinessWeek, the unit volume figures reported were at the low end of what analysts were expecting. Nokia is still the global leader in mobile phones by [...]

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A few weeks ago, Forbes published a list of the world’s 28 most reputable companies, as assessed by the Reputation Institute, a specialist consulting firm.  The Institute based its rating on a large scale consumer survey, where respondents were asked to evaluate companies on their reputations with respect to products and services, innovation, workplace quality, [...]

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I read some fairly depressing reviews of Nokia’s outlook today. one from Barron’s reporting an Oppenheimer analysts negative views of the company’s situation a second from Information Week reviewing the N8 handset and a third from PC mag reviewing the E73 Mode product All three, the Information Week reviewer, Eric Zeman, the Oppenheimer analyst Ittal [...]

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Several recent press reports have highlighted the circumstances of workers in China. According to the Financial Times, ten workers at the plants of a company called Foxconn have committed suicide since the beginning of 2010.   Foxconn, according to the FT, is the world’s largest contract maker of electronics and China’s largest employer.  At a [...]

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Nokia (Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO) is by a wide margin the largest maker of mobile phones in the world.  According to the Gartner Group’s research, they sold 110 million mobile units (a staggering number!) in the first quarter of 2010.  The nearest competitor was Samsung at 64.9 million units.   Nokia, with 35% of the world [...]

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