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>>sirkne+(OP)
Nokia as phone manufacturer is gone.

Nokia the company still exists. It owns the Nokia brand and has massive mobile patent portfolio (only licensed to Microsoft). Nokia is made of NSN (Nokia Solutions and Networks), maps and The Nokia Research Center.

Nokia is prohibited from using the brand to sell mobile phones for few years (ending 2018). It's completely possible that they come up with new gadgets or even phones with Nokia name.

>>nabla9+u3
Nokia is like one of the Japanese/Korean conglomerate where it touches everything[1]. Looking back at its stories, it got involve in power generation, TV manufacture, even forestry. I am sure that this is only part of its evolution.

[1] - http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/the-nokia-s...

>>yitche+F3
Not any more. Those parts of Nokia Keiretsu that once was exist today as independent companies.

http://www.nokiantyres.com/ http://www.nokiantires.com/

http://nokianjalkineet.fi/en/ http://www.nokianfootwear.com/

Nokia Cable is now http://www.nkcommunications.com

>>nabla9+H7
Conglomerate is not a Keiretsu and a keiretsu is not a conglomerate. Keiretsu is cross-ownership of shares centered around a bank.

If you absolutely must use a Japanese term, go with Zaibatsu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu

>>wodeno+md
Ownership of big Finnish companies formed Keiretsu type arrangement until the beginning of the 80's. Finland had two big banks, SYP and KOP, and they formed two camps that cross owned large sectors of Finnish business.

Nokia was mostly in the SYP camp. SYP owned directly 20% of Nokia and even more trough it's insurance companies and other investors.