Nokia, Microsoft Failed Trial Lost Over USD 8 Billion !

In his experiments with Nokia, Microsoft is known to have spent approximately USD 8 billion. The money spent on Microsoft it include the costs of corporate restructuring and severance pays thousands of its employees who are laid off.

The Verge, Thursday (26/5/2016), recently, they issued the funds of about USD 1 billion after a mobile phone business collapses. I.e. mem-1,850 LAYOFFS of employees and conduct a write-off of $ 950 million. A year ago, Microsoft also released USD 7.6 billion and fired approximately 7,800 employees.

Microsoft initially attracts about 25 thousand Nokia employees as part of a business acquisition Nokia phones for USD 7.2 billion. But the number of LAYOFFS that Microsoft conducted during the last two years, marking the surrender of the original company Redmond, the United States that was in the cell phone business.

Nokia's acquisition by Microsoft is going under the leadership of CEO Steve Ballmer. But after the Summit leadership was changed to Satya Nadella, all that changed. Nadella since the beginning has shown below is not interested in running a business phone.

Actually, this Nokia acquisition steps be defended by many parties. According to them, Microsoft does indeed need to acquire Nokia Finland origin because the company that controlled more than 90% of the market, and rumored Windows Phone will switch to Android.

Similar steps are in fact Google has done with its acquisition of Motorola. The giant technology company it bought Motorola $ 12.5 billion. But then, Google is selling it to a Lenovo with a value of only USD 2.91 billion in the span of fewer than two years.

However, Google still benefits in the form of patents-patents are important now. What about Microsoft? It is unclear what Microsoft gained from the acquisition of the Nokia