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2011-02-14 , 20:59
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Originally Posted by cBeam View Post
Who could buy Nokia?

Nokia's market cap is currently about 33 B USD.

Total Cash (from balance sheet, most recent quarter):

Microsoft Corp: 40.0 B
Oracle: 24.8 B
Intel Corporation: 21.8 B
Hewlett Packard: 10.9 B
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Well, HP already bought Palm, so they probably don't want Nokia, but wouldn't it be fun if Intel used all of its liquid assets to acquire a control package of Nokia's shares, and then fired the current board and CEO and forced Nokia to use MeeGo
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