When Will Microsoft Finally Buy Nokia (And Bury RIM)?:
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Last week on TheStreet, I put out notice: Buy Nokia, Prepare RIM's Grave :
... RIM has told investors, in no uncertain terms, that it has absolutely no plans to make any real change. The company intends to move forward with a pipeline that does not look a whole lot different from previous, failed efforts ...
While Nokia did not go to the extreme Domino's did, the company admitted failure even if it did not say as much when it dropped the Symbian platform. It also welcomed the type of move RIM was rumored to make for months.
In that article, I contrasted Domino's Pizza's improbable, yet virtually flawless turnaround with Research in Motion's lame non-attempt at a transformation. RIM talks change like Barack Obama. But, shockingly, there's much less hope in Waterloo than there is in Washington.
Meantime, Nokia continues to do all of the (right) things RIM should have done last year. I discuss some of them in the above-cited article, but here I want to consider the sane and logical possibility that Microsoft buys Nokia.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Last week on TheStreet, I put out notice: Buy Nokia, Prepare RIM's Grave :
... RIM has told investors, in no uncertain terms, that it has absolutely no plans to make any real change. The company intends to move forward with a pipeline that does not look a whole lot different from previous, failed efforts ...
While Nokia did not go to the extreme Domino's did, the company admitted failure even if it did not say as much when it dropped the Symbian platform. It also welcomed the type of move RIM was rumored to make for months.
In that article, I contrasted Domino's Pizza's improbable, yet virtually flawless turnaround with Research in Motion's lame non-attempt at a transformation. RIM talks change like Barack Obama. But, shockingly, there's much less hope in Waterloo than there is in Washington.
Meantime, Nokia continues to do all of the (right) things RIM should have done last year. I discuss some of them in the above-cited article, but here I want to consider the sane and logical possibility that Microsoft buys Nokia.
...
Click to view a price quote on MSFT.
Click to research the Computer Software & Services industry.
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