Webwire: Apple's Cook paid $376m in stock; Nokia buys another OS

Staff writer
10 Jan 2012
00:00

Apple CEO paid $376m in stock in 2011

Apple CEO Tim Cook's $900,000 base salary for 2011 pales in comparison to the 1 million restricted stock units he also received, which are currently worth around $376 million.

Associated Press

Nokia buys feature phone OS maker

Nokia has acquired Norwegian touchscreen feature phone OS developer Smarterphone for an undisclosed sum.

Reuters

SK Broadband, CHT agree to partnership

South Korea's SK Broadband and Taiawan's Chunghwa Telecom have agreed to form a strategic alliance to improve connectivity between the nations.

MarketWatch

China's People's Daily to IPO online unit

Chinese state-run news agency People's Daily plans to list its online news portal, people.cn, on the Shanghai exchange, and aims to raise around 527 million yuan ($83.5 million) from the IPO.

Wall Street Journal

ICANN plays down TLD threat to UN, IMF

Internet regulator ICANN is attempting to appease concerns from bodies including the UN and the International Monetary Fund over the potential for cybersquatters to seize important web suffixes including .un and .imf under the new expanded TLD regime.

Reuters

India's 3G roaming dispute takes new turn

Indian operators involved in domestic 3G roaming pacts - including the one between Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone - are resisting an attempt by the telecom ministry to learn the details of the deals, citing fears the data could be leaked to rivals.

Economic Times

Huawei unveils world's thinnest smartphone

Huawei has unveiled what it says is the world's thinnest smartphone. The Huawei Ascend P1S is just 6.68mm thick.

Agence France-Presse

Lenovo to launch first Android 4.0 TV

Chinese vendor Lenovo has announced it will launch the first smart TV to use Google's Ice Cream Sandwich OS in China during April.

USA Today

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