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Nokia’s Acquisition Run “Not Over”

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image Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to snap up more firms as it continues to build out its internet services, according to the Finnish handset maker’s internet head Niklas Savander, who told Reuters in an interview that it was “absolutely not yet where we need to be” with its current level of offerings.

SEE ALSO: @ CTIA: Nokia Continues Services Push With Ovi; Adds Contact Back-Up

So far, the company has purchased ten smaller firms to beef up its internet business, as well as its mammoth $8.1 billion purchase of US digital mapmaker Navteq. Today, the company announced additional features to Ovi that allow users to back-up their contacts, calendar, notes and tasks between their phone and Ovi.com. It also recently rolled out its remote access service Files on Ovi, built from its Avvenu purchase last year, which lets users store files on the web. It has also put its Share on Ovi and its Reset Generation applications on Facebook and was talking to the social net, as well as others, on how to make their sites more easily accessible from Nokia phones.

But despite Nokia’s strong push to reinvent itself from manufacturing firm to web services company, Savander said that the company was building up its offering “incrementally, step-by-step” to ensure that it “matched with demand.” The company had also put a priority on getting new services out to the market quickly, rather than offering up a fully integrated, unified service. This has meant that Nokia’s services all have separate sign-ons, rather than a more user-friendly, universal one. Said Savander, “We are realizing of course that as a consequence of this we are making it a little bit more complicated to the user than is the ideal situation.” Eventually, however, the end goal is to have a “seamless” integrated service.

Savander also dismissed the long-running notion that Nokia’s move into services had upset operators, which see these offerings as their territory. “In the end we have the same goal: we need to find ways to convince the consumer to incrementally spend on their phone,” he said. He also expects that its Comes With Music phones will be sold by operators, and that it was just a matter of “timing” with operators.

Sep 9, 2008 6:12 AM ET

Posted In: Companies, Nokia, ovi

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