Symbian Now Officially No Longer Under The Wing Of Nokia, 2,300 Jobs Go
Source: mocoNews.net
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the operating system that Nokia had developed, owned and been using as the basis of its smartphones for years—a strategy that changed in February this year when it announced it would be making devices based on Microsoft’s Windows Phones in the future.
The decision to outsource Symbian was first announced back in April, and Nokia finalized the terms of the deal in June.
Today’s completion of that deal was noted by a terse statement from the company:
“Nokia announced today that it has completed the transaction to outsource its Symbian software development and support activities to Accenture. The signing of the transaction was announced on June 22, 2011. As a result of the transaction, approximately 2,300 employees will transfer to Accenture.”
