Nokia sells Vertu, shuffles execs, announces plans to cut 10,000 more jobs

Nokia

Nokia

Nokia on Thursday announced a number of moves as it cut second-quarter guidance and upped its bet on Windows Phone, which has yet to help slow a slide that saw the struggling vendor lose nearly $3 billion over the past two reported quarters. Nokia lost $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter last year and another $1.7 billion in the first quarter as the company attempted to regain its footing in an industry that passed it by several years ago. The vendor has shed thousands of jobs recently, and on Thursday Nokia announced it will lay off 10,000 more workers between now and the end of 2013 as it reshuffles a number of executives. Nokia said it expects these new restructuring efforts to cost €1 billion on top of the €900 million tied to its previous restructuring plans. Read the full story at Boy Genius Report.

 

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Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).