Nokia - Multinational Communications Corporation
It also offers Internet services such as applications, games, music, maps, media and messaging through its Ovi platform, and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary Navteq. Nokia has a joint venture with Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks, which provides telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services.
Nokia has 130,000 employees across 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of over €38 billion and operating loss of €1 billion as of 2011. As of 2012 it is the world's second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones (after Samsung), with a global market share of 22.5% in the first quarter. Nokia is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki, Frankfurt, and New York stock exchanges.
Since February 2011 Nokia has had a strategic partnership with Microsoft, as part of which all Nokia smartphones will be designed to run under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. On 26 October 2011 Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone handsets, the WP7.5 Lumia 710 and 800.
oDesk Answer TestThe Nokia House, Nokia's head office located by the Gulf of Finland in Keilaniemi, Espoo, was constructed between 1995 and 1997. It is the workplace of more than 1,000 Nokia employees. The Nokia brand, valued at $25 billion, is listed as the 14th most valuable global brand in the Interbrand/BusinessWeek Best Global Brands list of 2011. It is the 14th ranked brand corporation in Europe (as of 2011), the 8th most admirable Network and Other Communications Equipment company worldwide in Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list of 2011, and the world's 143rd largest company as measured by revenue in Fortune Global 500 list of 2011.
