*Smartphones for emerging markets Nokia's best bet- analyst. HELSINKI, May 7- Nokia investors told Chief Executive Stephen Elop on Tuesday that they were running out of patience with his flagging attempts to catch up with market leaders Apple and Samsung in smartphones. The transition to Windows Phone from Nokia's own Symbian system was meant to take two years.
HELSINKI, May 7- Nokia will unveil new models in its Asha range of mid-tier phones, after first-quarter results showed a sharp fall in sales of mobile phones while management focused on boosting sales of Lumia smartphones.
HELSINKI, May 7- Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop said the company would remain focused on using Microsoft's Windows Phone software to compete with smartphone rivals such as Samsung.
TAIPEI, May 6- Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. posted a 37 percent fall in April sales from a year earlier. >Nokia says awarded injunction against HTC One.
OSLO, April 30- Norway's central bank will sell 300 million Norwegian crowns a day in May to buy foreign currency for the country's oil fund, the same as in April, it said on Tuesday. Norges Bank manages Norway's $720 billion Government Pension Fund Global, which invests surplus oil wealth to save for a future when the country's oil and gas resources run dry.
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April 25- Royal Dutch Shell Plc's India arm has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging the claims by the local tax authorities that a share sale to its overseas parent in 2009 was undervalued by about 152 billion rupees. The Anglo-Dutch oil company filed the "writ petition" in the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, a company statement said.
*First-quarter adj EPS $0.30 vs est $0.24. *First-quarter revenue flat at $1.81 bln vs est $1.96 bln. April 24- Specialty glass maker Corning Inc's first-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates, helped by strong demand for Gorilla Glass used in smartphones and tablets, as the company looks to touch-screen PC notebooks for further growth.
April 22- Nokia Oyj said it won a court injunction that would prevent rival HTC Corp from using microphone components made by STMicroelectronics NV in HTC One phones.
April 22- Nokia Oyj said it won a court injunction that would prevent rival HTC Corp from using microphone components made by STMicroelectronics NV in HTC One phones.
April 18- Microsoft Corp Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein will leave at the end of the current fiscal year, the company said on Thursday, adding to a lengthy list of top executives who have left the company in recent years. The software guru tapped by Bill Gates to take over his role as Microsoft's big-picture thinker left to start his own project in 2010..
European shares closed mixed on Thursday, after a rally in technology shares was curbed when Nokia released disappointing earnings. Yet more weak U.S. data also weighed on investor sentiment.
LONDON, April 18- European indexes pared gains to end steady on Thursday after more weak corporate and economic data in the United States and Europe heightened fears over the growth outlook. Banks were the worst-hit sector, down 1.1 percent, with French bank Societe Generale among the top fallers, down 3.4 percent.
*UnitedHealth profit falls, shares drop. *Nokia drops in premarket after earnings. "It just seems like a rudderless ship right now that we've got really two offsetting factors- one clearly slowing, most certainly globally," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago.