{"id":645862,"date":"2013-03-08T07:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=363098"},"modified":"2013-03-08T07:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T12:35:01","slug":"nokia-still-on-the-hook-for-650-million-in-windows-phone-license-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645862","title":{"rendered":"Nokia still on the hook for $650 million in Windows Phone license fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/nokia-windows-phone-licensing-fees-363098\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/elop_ballmer1-e1349265859685.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=391&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Nokia Windows Phone Licensing\" title=\"Stephen Elop, Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/windows-phone-shrinking-market-share-analysis-361986\/\">Windows Phone has shown little signs of momentum<\/a> in recent months, that doesn&#8217;t mean <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nokia\">Nokia<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=nok\">NOK<\/a>) isn&#8217;t still obligated to pay <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/nokia-paying-microsoft-500m-for-using-windows-phone-7000012276\/\">Per<em> ZDNet,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Nokia disclosed on Thursday that the fees it pays to Microsoft over the remainder of its licensing agreement will be\u00a0\u20ac500 million \u2014 or roughly $650 million \u2014 more than the platform support payments that it&#8217;s slated to receive from Microsoft. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/01\/steven-elop-interview-iphone-android-353869\/\">good news for Nokia<\/a> is that the total platform support fees that it has either already received or is due to receive from Microsoft are still projected to exceed the licensing fees over the course of the entire deal, so Windows Phone won&#8217;t likely be a net money loser for the company.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/plzvxZHGnn4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Windows Phone has shown little signs of momentum in recent months, that doesn&#8217;t mean Nokia (NOK) isn&#8217;t still obligated to pay Microsoft (MSFT) hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees. Per ZDNet,\u00a0Nokia disclosed on Thursday that the fees it pays to Microsoft over the remainder of its licensing agreement will be\u00a0\u20ac500 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}