Motorola and Nokia Financial Analysis

For the financial analysis, I selected Motorola and Nokia. The two companies control a dominant share of the cellular handset market. Successful competition in the cellular equipment industry requires companies that can plan for change, identify their worldwide position, and recognize trends in their financial results and in the tastes of their customers. Company Overviews Motorola, founded in 1928, was originally known as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, after its founder Paul V. Galvin (Motorola, 2004). The company's first …showed first 75 words of 1167 total…

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