Microsoft (MSFT +0.46%) Corp. got a lot of things with its $7 billion purchase of Nokia (NOK1V.HE +5.16%) Corp.’s mobile phone business.
Nokia Growth Partners Bo Ilsoe, managing director of Nokia Growth Partners. It got a healthy heap of skepticism that integrating Nokia’s devices and services business with its own will lead to products that can win market share from Apple and Google. It got praise that even as its second largest acquisition (Skype was its largest at $8.6 billion), the deal was financially savvy, given the division it purchased generated half of Nokia’s 30.2 billion euros in sales in 2012.
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