Nokia shareholders approve mobile phone sale to Microsoft
Helsinki (AFP)
Finnish telecom company Nokia announced Tuesday that its shareholders had approved the 5.44 billion euro ($7.35 billion) sale of its mobile phone division to US software giant Microsoft.
According to Nokia -- which will now become a telecom equipment and services company -- the deal was almost unanimously approved (99.7 percent) by shareholders who voted ahead of an extraordinary meeting in Helsinki.
(Agence France-Presse, 19 Tuesday November 2013 The Roman)
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