Stephen Elop is an embrace of the wireless technology CDMA, which Verizon Wireless and Sprint use.
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With the deal came a rival successor in Stephen Elop, Macromedia's new chief executive.
And a lot of that comes down to the influence of new CEO Stephen Elop.
Chief executive Stephen Elop said Nokia "faces some significant challenges in our competitiveness and our execution".
According to CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia is also planning a lot of interesting things with Verizon.
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This is the single most important product launch under the stewardship of Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop.
If I were Stephen Elop when he took over at Nokia, I would have embraced the Windows platform, too.
From somewhere atop a Finnish mountain, Stephen Elop is both bellowing and whispering Nokia's fourth quarter and full-year financials.
Two years ago, Nokia changed management and shifted strategy and is now halfway through a turnaround, according to its CEO Stephen Elop.
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"Our fundamental strategy is around broadening the definition of productivity, " says Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, the company's largest unit.
Stephen Elop does not appear to be interested in eating my brain.
Our first face-to-face is with Nokia's chief executive himself, Stephen Elop, who has generously offered up 30 minutes to answer your questions.
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"We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees, " said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Nokia.
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Nokia's Stephen Elop and Kazuo Hirai of Sony each took over their companies at moments when the markets and consumers had turned against them.
"We are very encouraged that our team's execution against our business strategy has started to translate into financial results, " chief executive Stephen Elop said.
However, chief executive Stephen Elop said the decision to focus on Microsoft's software gave his firm the best opportunity to "compete with competitors like Samsung".
Nokia's boss, Stephen Elop, says the company will invest heavily in customers in Africa and Asia who have a mobile-phone signal but no internet experience.
The Nokia brand, Stephen Elop argues, can still excite these customers.
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Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be replaced by Microsoft exec Stephen Elop on Sept. 21, and mobile business unit head Anssi Vanjoki is also quitting.
To correct the situation, even when Nokia brought in Stephen Elop as its new CEO from Microsoft (MSFT), the arrogance at Nokia did not decline.
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Nokia, now being led by former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, initiated the new suit in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands, according to The New York Times.
It seems that Stephen Elop's financial measures may finally be having the desired effect as Nokia records its first sub-billion dollar quarterly loss for a year.
On Sunday Chief Executive Stephen Elop explained that Nokia had chosen to avoid an alliance with Google because of the threat of Android growing too large.
Rather than finding a replacement for Raikes within Microsoft, Ballmer turned to an outsider, Juniper Networks Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop, to take on the high-profile job that Raikes defined.
Staffers walked around carrying Lumia phones for the most part, though they had just been told by new Chief Executive Stephen Elop that they should try using iPhones and Androids too.
The announcement comes just a week after Microsoft tapped Stephen Elop, chief operating officer of Juniper Networks, to replace company veteran Jeff Raikes in the high-profile job of business division president.
"We have areas where we are making progress and areas where we are further increasing the focus, " said Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop, who was hired in 2010 to revive the company.
Nokia's embattled CEO Stephen Elop latched on to the performance of the flagship Lumia range, with sales of 4.4 million providing evidence that the Windows-based phones were at last making an impact.
Stephen Elop has been struggling to convince the market that his campaign to get Nokia off its "burning platform" and into a profitable future making Windows Phone 7 handsets is on course.
The introduction of Windows smartphones has been the big change under chief executive Stephen Elop, who phased out the Symbian operating system shortly after he took control of the company in 2010.
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