| ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bg_white-squares.png) ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/ms-nokia.png?w=152&h=168&crop=1) | Colleen Taylor In a surprise move, Microsoft announced Monday evening that it has inked a deal with Nokia to acquire "substantially all of Nokia's Devices & Services... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/bliss.jpg?w=152&h=168&crop=1) | Jon Evans I spent last week in Black Rock City, where on Saturday night I and 60,000 others stood within a ring of hundreds of vehicles transformed into spectacular art,... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/p1010017.jpg?w=152&h=168&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington Microsoft gains a key advantage with its acquisition of Microsoft's handset and devices division today: control. Microsoft itself says that acquiring the phones... read more | | | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/iphone-ios7-unlock-hero.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington A big request from parents regarding iOS has been that Apple implement user accounts on its mobile devices, in order to make it so that a parent can sign in... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/kindle-matchbook.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington Amazon announced a new program today called Kindle MatchBook, which offers digital versions of print books purchased through its online bookstore to customers... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/spotify-connect-image.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Ingrid Lunden Spotify is today adding a new feature to its iOS app that represents the streaming company's most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/nokia-tyres.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Natasha Lomas You don't get to be an almost 150-year-old company, as Nokia is, without being good at reinvention. The Finnish company's latest Houdini trick -- announced late... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/trojan-horse.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Ingrid Lunden Microsoft's landmark decision to buy Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion will put Stephen Elop back into business working at the company where he was... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/here-auto04-incar.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington Nokia is divesting itself of its hardware division, selling that business mostly off to Microsoft in a deal worth around $7.2 billion announced today. But it... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/screen-shot-2013-09-02-at-6-48-01-pm.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Colleen Taylor At the same time that unemployment and low wages continue to plague the larger U.S. economy, Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry is having a hiring... read more | | |
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