{"id":1755,"date":"2012-01-05T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T02:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-01-05T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T02:14:01","slug":"rumor-microsoft-buying-nokia-smartphone-division-nokia-ceo-elop-exiting-at-end-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/rumor-microsoft-buying-nokia-smartphone-division-nokia-ceo-elop-exiting-at-end-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Microsoft buying Nokia smartphone division. Nokia CEO Elop exiting at end of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/msft_buying_nok_120105.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/msft_buying_nok_120105.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"msft_buying_nok_120105\" width=\"520\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/msft_buying_nok_120105.png 520w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/msft_buying_nok_120105-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just a rumor from a single source &#8211; from a Twitter tweet, no less. But, stranger things have happened (like Google buying Motorola Mobility). So, here goes&#8230; as reported by the Global Post. Eldar Murtazi, Mobile-Review.com, editor-in-chief Analyst, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/eldarmurtazin\/status\/154840815594782720\">tweeted<\/a> that Microsoft will buy Nokia&#8217;s smartphone division.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/business-tech\/technology-news\/120105\/reports-microsoft-buy-nokia-smartphone-division\">Reports: Microsoft to buy Nokia smartphone division<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Murtazi also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/eldarmurtazin\/status\/154851243888611329\">tweeted<\/a> that: <em>Stephen Elop will be resign as Nokia CEO in 2012<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you go! Is there any actual truth to these two rumors? Nokia&#8217;s stock performance (or lack thereof) makes the second rumor tweeted seem likely. But, the first? Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a rumor from a single source &#8211; from a Twitter tweet, no less. But, stranger things have happened (like Google buying Motorola Mobility). So, here goes&#8230; as reported by the Global Post. Eldar Murtazi, Mobile-Review.com, editor-in-chief Analyst, tweeted that Microsoft will buy Nokia&#8217;s smartphone division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows-mobile","tag-nokia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}