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Nokia, once an iconic mobile handset maker, is shutting down its India plant Saturday at Sriperumbudur near here, a company spokesperson said Friday. "As announced earlier (Oct 7), we are stopping ...
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Data show labour unrest is not the problem - The Hindu
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Nokia will not make handsets in India anymore
Chennai, Oct 31: Nokia, once an iconic mobile handset maker, is shutting down its India plant Saturday at Sriperumbudur near here, a company spokesperson said Friday."As announced earlier (Oct 7), we are stopping handset production at our Chennai plant from tomor...
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Nokia will not make handsets in India anymore
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Nokia all set to suspend operations at Chennai plant tomorrow
Eight years after it came into being as one of the worlds largest mobile manufacturing facilities, Finnish telecom major Nokias Chennai plant is all set to suspend operations from tomorrow due to its exclusion from the Microsoft-Nokia deal. Nokia started operations at Sriperumbudur plant near here, the second biggest facilities by any global firm,...
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Nokia all set to suspend Chennai plant operations tomorrow
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Nokia to suspend operations at Chennai plant from Nov 1
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Hubwoo announces Q3 2014 Revenues
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AP Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella As news broke on Wednesday that part three of Microsoft’s huge multi-phase layoffs had occurred, employees at the company are having mixed feelings. Not surprisingly, all this change “wears on” a lot of Microsoft’s employees, said a former employee who left the company shortly before the big layoff was officially announced...
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Microsoft cuts 3,000 jobs, rounding out July plan
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it cut about 3,000 jobs, effectively completing its plan to reduce its workforce by 18,000, or 14 percent of total staff, announced in July. The majority of the 18,000 job cuts were in the phone handset business Microsoft acquired from Nokia earlier this year. “We’ve taken another step that will...
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