This is quite a long interview, I’m only going to post a few of the questions. I highly suggest you check out Australian IT’s entire article:
Nokia is said to have a war chest of €9 billion for acquisitions. What are the types of companies you are looking for, and will you be looking at Australia?
Our practice has been to buy small to medium companies. Geography does not matter. We go where we can find good technology, good people and good markets.
Gate5 is German. Loudeye is a US-British company, so all markets are possible and definitely we will also look at Australia.
Why has Nokia not cracked the Japanese or Korean markets?
Japan’s mobile phone technology is different from technologies elsewhere in the world. We felt it was not commercially viable to enter that market.
The Japanese market is now moving to third-generation mobiles and the Koreans are moving as well.
That means their technology is becoming the same as elsewhere. This development is opening up access to the Japanese market.
That is why we are seeing a sizeable upside. Japan is a very advanced market. We have been investigating the Japanese market and there are many high-end users who like technology.
Definitely read the whole thing. If you haven’t heard Olli speak yet then you check out the keynote address he gave at CES.