{"id":23509,"date":"2012-10-03T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=23509"},"modified":"2012-10-03T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T09:31:56","slug":"nokia-hq-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23509\/nokia-hq-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia HQ up for sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling cellphone maker Nokia is seeking to sell its headquarters in Espoo, Finland as part of a drive to dispose of non-core assets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are evaluating different options for non-core parts, such as real estate holdings, and that includes the headquarters,&#8221; spokeswoman Maija Taimi told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The glass and steel building by the Baltic Sea is valued at 200-300 million euros ($259-388 million), according to a report by Finnish newspaper Iltasanomat.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia, which has been trying to improve its finances through large job cuts and other measures, told investors in July it was it was also looking to sell properties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23188\/nokia-may-face-backlash-over-lumia-920-price-analysts\/\"><strong>Nokia may face backlash over Lumia 920 price &#8211; analysts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/22486\/nokia-running-out-of-time\/\"><strong>Nokia: running out of time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/21707\/nokia-lumia-920-gets-a-november-release\/\"><strong>Nokia Lumia 920 gets a November release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/21541\/nokia-lumia-920-fails-to-impress-investors\/\">Nokia Lumia 920 fails to impress investors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/21512\/nokia-microsoft-putting-all-hope-in-new-smartphone\/\"><strong>Nokia, Microsoft putting all hope in new smartphone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling cellphone maker Nokia is seeking to sell its headquarters in Espoo, Finland as part of a drive to dispose of non-core assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,187],"class_list":["post-23509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23511,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions\/23511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}