(BN) Microsoft Said to Agree to Buy Nokia Phone Business, BGR Reports

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Microsoft Said to Agree to Buy Nokia Phone Business, BGR Reports
2011-06-01 15:13:13.868 GMT


By Colin Keatinge
June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. has agreed a deal to
buy Nokia Oyj's mobile-phone business for $19 billion,
BoyGeniusReport said on its website, citing Eldar Murtazin.
Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant today declined to comment on
the report when contacted by Bloomberg News.
The Finnish company said on May 16 that speculation by
Murtazin it may sell its mobile-phones unit to Microsoft was
inaccurate.

With assistance from Diana Ben-Aaron in Helsinki and Simon Thiel
in London. Editor: Peter Branton

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