There was no way to dress up Nokia’s fourth-quarter results report yesterday (27 January) – the figures were certainly not rosy. Nokia’s accountants must have felt shooting pains in their fingers as they typed in each digit of the bleak financials: profit down 21% for the three months to December, full-year sales at a lower […]
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