European Commission approves Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech

by Darren Murph, posted Jun 17th 2008 at 9:25AM

Not like we were really suspecting any issues or anything, but the European Commission has just made public its "unconditional approval" of Nokia's "voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA." In other words, Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech is officially complete, with today being the final day in which the latter company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Such a cute couple, don't you think?

Filed under: Cellphones

Tags: Acquisition, business, europe, European Commission, EuropeanCommission, industry, nokia, troll, Trolltech

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kal326 @ Jun 17th 2008 9:34AM

Seriously, Trolltech? What do they make web forum and bloging software?

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Kris @ Jun 17th 2008 9:38AM

Actually, they make Qt as well as a prototype Linux phone that was actually pretty cool.

I hope Nokia can leverage the Qt framework and the work Trolltech has already done on their Linux phone.

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Micah Blomgren @ Jun 17th 2008 3:14PM

KDE anyone? Qt is a cross platform graphical widget toolkit for the development framework of GUI computer programs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28toolkit%29

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Mehdi Cheddadi @ Jun 17th 2008 10:26AM

I care because?

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J.K Pe @ Jun 17th 2008 10:30AM

You just did by posting to this topic so you actually did some work just to get here ;)

It should mean something when world mobile phone leader buys software company like this.

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Soze @ Jun 17th 2008 10:27AM

Nokia road to some linux powered phones. Some one in finnish forum said that there is proto linux phone alive thought who knows when first linux powered Nokia would be out. This is rumours so take that info as you want.
They will have some plans for Trolltech that's for sure. It's not like they buy company worth of 160 million dollars just for fun.

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