Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in a memo to all Nigerian employees late June, said that the company needed to make some “tough choices” in areas that were not working.
According to the memo, “7,800 jobs would be cut from the mobile division working on Windows Phone hardware.”
“The company will also write off $7.6bn from the acquisition of Nokia, despite it only paying $7.2bn for the company in 2014,” Nadella said.
Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer acquired Nokia in 2012.
Microsoft’s Windows phone has performed below par so far as it currently controls less than 5% of the mobile phone market worldwide.
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