(1) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
(2) Elop denies it is in talks about a takeover by Microsoft .
(3) Elop says Nokia is considering them, and looking into platform options such as Windows 8 , Windows RT – as used on the Microsoft Surface – and even Android.
(4) The marketing department will now report directly to Elop, and a management reshuffle has seen key staff replaced and US executive Chris Weber – who, like Elop, previously worked for Microsoft – promoted to run sales and marketing.
(5) Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, said : "This settlement ... enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
(6) Stephen Elop is the odds-on favourite to become Microsoft's next CEO ( see 8.51am ), but do you think he's got what it takes to replace Steve Ballmer and take the company forward?
(7) For example, we rejected the traditional wedding day and we eloped to Las Vegas when our son, Conrad, was three.
(8) Claire McComb, spokesperson for the East London Out Project (ELOP), a gay and lesbian outreach organisation, says: "Homophobia is equivalent to racism, sexism, ageism, sizeism and prejudice against disability, yet this is often disregarded in favour of conflicting personal values.
(9) Vote here: Should Stephen Elop take over at Microsoft?
(10) Elop managed to make Nokia actually sell *less* phones, quite a feat given how the smartphone market exploded.
(11) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
(12) Their 18-year relationship made a gut-wrenching but fascinating public story, which began with romantic passion, high hopes and an elopement to Spain.
(13) "Yes, you can call it [Android] open source but in practicality, you're getting more and more constrained on what's possible in that environment," Elop says.
(14) This is the challenge Elop, and Nokia more generally, faces – a smartphone market where the Lumia is in a tiny minority.
(15) Nokia's future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue the business if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group's smartphone business by the end of the year, analysts have warned.
(16) Asked why his strategy had not yet produced results, Elop said there was "frustration" because so few consumers were aware of Nokia's new products: "We have truly great products but aren't getting the traction that we would prefer."
(17) Here's a selection on the Microsoft-Nokia deal: os2baba 03 September 2013 8:28am If ever there was a Trojan horse... Stephen Elop sure fits the bill.
(18) "Stephen Elop is running out of time," said Francisco Jeronimo at telecoms research firm IDC.
(19) The two companies announced the outline for the deal in London in February, after Elop had courted both Google and Microsoft, choosing between the Android mobile operating system – now the world's most-used on smartphones – and Windows Phone, which was only introduced in October 2010 and has had a lukewarm reception from customers.
(20) Ram had married but his wife – a woman who had three children when she effectively eloped with him – died of an illness without bearing him a child of his own.
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