When Microsoft announced plans to buy Nokia's devices business it was an almost inevitable culmination of a deal hammered out between Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop. But for Microsoft the deal is fraught with risk
When Stephen Elop was poached from Microsoft to head-up Nokia in autumn 2010, the tin-foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists warned that Elop was little more than a Trojan horse. He would subvert...
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