Microsoft company intends to close several factories in Beijing and reduce 9 thousand Nokia employees. Part of the equipment of Beijing will be brought to Vietnam by the end of March 2015.

Abbreviations are in the scope of the program to reduce state expenditures from 18 thousand employees, 12 thousand of whom are workers of the division of Nokia Devices and Services. Microsoft is going to say goodbye to nine thousand employees purchased her firm Nokia.

Then the company is going to close some of its plants in Beijing, as part of the equipment transfer to Vietnam by the end of March 2015. This tells the Agency MarketWatch referring to the Chinese media.

The mobile division of Nokia, Microsoft acquired in early April 2014 for the 7.18 bn $ 2.13 billion of which were on the Nokia patents. Under the deal, Microsoft had to move workers more than 130 units of the acquired firm, located in 50 States. The state increased by 25 thousand employees up to 127 thousand people.

Previously Microsoft has categorically rejected the word Nokia in the names of Lumia smartphones. Days.Ru wrote that Microsoft introduced the 1st phone under its own brand - Microsoft Lumia 535. The design of the gadget continues the ideology of the Nokia Lumia.

Meanwhile, Nokia itself requires its own gadgets. November 18, 2014 she introduced the tablet Nokia N1. As informs the web-site of the company, it has a 7.9-inch screen, Quad-core Intel processor, 2 GB timely and 32 GB of integrated memory. The gadget runs on the Android operating system 5.0 Lollipop with a pre-shell Z Launcher.
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