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Microsoft-Nokia Deal is Ballmer’s Last Stand

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With Microsoft Corp.’s $7.2 billion deal to finally buy Nokia Corp.’s mobile phone business, retiring CEO Steve Ballmer is putting what may be his last imprint on the software giant. Whether Microsoft’s MSFT -0.05% competitive position in the smartphone arena will improve by acquiring its main hardware partner is the big question. But Ballmer, who is […]