Nokia Acquires Symbian Ltd

(Business News & Technology News, 4 Dec 2008)

Nokia has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Ltd. All conditions to Nokia's offer to acquire Symbian have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9 percent of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.

The closing of the offer is a fundamental step in the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, announced on June 24, 2008 by Nokia, together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.

All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.

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