Nokia Acquires Symbian Limited
Nokia today announced that it has completed its acquiring of Symbian Limited. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.
All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.