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Microsoft is laying off 1,850 to “streamline” its smartphone business, takes $950M charge
Following last week’s news of Microsoft selling off its feature phone business for $350 million, today Microsoft turned its attention to smartphones: the company announced it would lay off 1,850 staff and take a charge of $950 million, including $200 million in severance payments, as it “streamlines” the business to focus on enterprises and niche areas where it feels it… Read More
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Microsoft’s New Lumia 650 Is A $199 Windows 10 Phone
Microsoft unveiled its first Lumia phones running Windows 10 back in October, and today it offered up a third and much cheaper variant. Microsoft Unveils The Lumia 950 And Lumia 950 XL, Two Powerful Windows Phones
Microsoft unveiled the best phones no one buys at a press conference in New York today. As expected, the company showcased two new flagship devices, the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL. As the names suggest, the XL variant is a phablet. These devices come with great specs. Yet, these devices are exclusive to AT&T in the U.S. Read More
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Watch Microsoft’s Hardware Event Live Right Here
Microsoft is holding a big press conference in New York at 10 AM EDT (7 AM PDT, 3 PM BST). After Apple and Google, the company is expected to announce a whole new line of hardware devices. You can expect a Surface Pro 4, new flagship Lumia phones, maybe even a new Band and some HoloLens news. Read More
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Microsoft Squeezes Windows Phone To $81 With Entry Level Lumia 435, $93 With Lumia 532
Microsoft has announced two new Lumia smartphones running its Windows Phone 8.1 mobile OS, both focused on beefing up the portfolio at the lower end and expanding the platform’s appeal in emerging markets to try to compete with budget Androids. Microsoft’s New Lumia 535 Costs $140 And Is Its First Non-Nokia Smartphone
Microsoft teased the imminent arrival of the first non-Nokia Lumia last week, and now it has unveiled the Lumia 535, a budget device priced at €110 (that’s just under US$140) with improvements across the board. Microsoft Drops Nokia Name, Sticks With ‘Lumia’ For Windows Phones
After a long and complicated relationship that first involved just a close partnership with Nokia handling hardware duties, and then Microsoft acquiring Nokia’s phone-making business during what appeared to be a fairly acrimonious separation, there will be no more confusion as to who’s making first-party Windows Phone hardware going forward: they’ll be called just… Read More
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Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To Quit
News broke today that Microsoft is offering employees in China a Lumia 630 device to leave the company voluntarily. Microsoft’s mass layoffs are not going over smoothly in China. Reports of protest have cropped up, with workers reacting in anger about the company’s impending job cuts that will eventually total 18,000 across the company. When Microsoft purchased most of… Read More
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Microsoft Sold 5.8M Lumia Handsets In Its FQ4, But That’s A Partial-Quarter Sales Figure
Today in its fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft reported that it sold 5.8 million Windows Phone-based Lumia handsets. Last year, in the second calendar quarter — Microsoft’s then fiscal fourth quarter, welcome to the world of finance — Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia handsets. However, Lumia sales didn’t fall 22 percent as those figures appear to indicate.… Read More
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