Nokia

• Nokias net loss nearly quadrupled in the second quarter on sagging sales of smartphones, a market in which the company is struggling to regain ground lost to rivals including Apple and Samsung.
(AP - NBCNews.com)
• Nokia (NOK) reported results that were much better than expected yesterday. So what should you do? Maybe buy some Microsoft (MSFT). Nokias numbers were buoyed by sales of its Lumia 900, a phone running Windows 7 software.
(Seekingalpha.com)
• It's going to be a long, dry summer for Microsoft and Nokia, with consumers roundly rejecting Windows Phone 7 and little hope that things will improve until Windows Phone 8 launches this fall.
(PC World)
• Nokia posted a $1 billion operating loss in the last quarter, and failed to move a significant number of Lumia devices in North America, but global sales of Windows Phone devices did see a bump.
(PC Magazine)
• Nokia shares are trading higher Thursday morning following the company's Q2 financial results. The struggling handset maker posted revenue for the quarter of 7.54 billion Euros, ahead of the Street consensus at 7.35 billion, and up from 7.
(Forbes)
• People are doing just about everything nowadays through Facebook — except buying ketchup.
(AllFacebook)
• More than seven years before Apple Inc. AAPL +1.05% rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick.
(Huffington Post)