- Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop said that the company rejected Android to avoid a "duopoly" in the mobile industry between Google/Nokia and Apple. He claimed that he was approached by both Google and Microsoft in the weeks leading upto the announcement. Nokia-Microsoft partnership will be like a licensing deal, where Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee to use its software. More In another address at the MWC, Elop emphasized on bringing mobile data connectivity to less developed market and promised a “continuous enhancement and new investment” in the company’s mass-market Series 30 and Series 40 device portfolios, in addition to to expand its Nokia Money and Nokia Life Tools services and extend Nokia’s mapping offerings to Series 40 devices. More - Google CEO, Eric Schmidt in his keynote address said that Google would have loved Nokia to have chose Android and the offer still remains open. He said that Android apps had tripled in the last nine months to 150,000. Google demonstrated 'Movie Studio', a new movie editing app for Android. More - Ericsson’s CEO Hans Vestberg made a prediction that by 2015 today’s global mobile subscriber base will increase dramatically from the current 5.3 billion to a staggering 7-8 billion. More. - Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, called on the mobile industry to integrate twitter to devices to work like water and deliver the same user experience on all devices. He also announced a crowdsource translation platform that will allow users to translate tweets into local languages. More - Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer,in…
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