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About Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa. In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki and New York Stock Exchange. It was the world's 415th-largest company measured by 2016 revenues, according to the Fortune Global 500, having peaked at 85th place in 2009. It is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

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There was a Nokia executive in 2002 who was fined 116,000 euros for going at about 40 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour speed limit.

from 53: No Such Thing As A 3000km Tall Statue Of Liberty, 2015-03-20 at 00:11:15 · read transcript

Other times Nokia came up

  1. Did you know that Finland is a country where there are more saunas than cars? Practically all the houses in the rural areas have saunas of their own. It's hard to imagine a Finnish summer cottage by a lake without a sauna. He goes on into talking about how Nokia has built saunas for their employees in their company's gyms. He said, Finns carry their saunas with them wherever they go. What?

    No Such Thing As Old Mother Bastard, 2015-05-01 · listen

  2. Is it that one? 33-10? It's not the 33-10. It's the 1100, which I think is a previous version. Seven of the 10 best-selling phones of all time and Nokia phones. Yeah, the 11... They're great phones. Snake, in fact, was obviously the best game of all time, but I realized something about it that I never knew at the time, which is that you could play two-player Snake with your friend.

    No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven, 2019-09-20 · listen

  3. Then, suddenly, you're into this chat room where everyone's phones are dying, and you can commiserate together. Oh, my God. It's like being a palliative care ward. Wow. That's morbid. Speaking of that, actually, do you remember the old Nokia 3310s? They're very, very popular. There's still a few in this audience who've got them. There was a woman in Nigeria. Apparently, this happened. It was on social media, and they claimed it happened.

    287: No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven, 2019-09-20 · listen

  4. Practically all the houses in the rural areas have saunas of their own. It's hard to imagine a Finnish summer cottage by a lake without a sauna. He goes on into talking about how Nokia has built saunas for their employees in their company's gyms. He said, Finns carry their saunas with them wherever they go. All the 98 Finnish diplomatic and consular missions in different parts of the world have their own saunas.

    59: No Such Thing As Old Mother Bastard, 2015-05-01 · listen

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