Digia buys Nokia's remaining Qt assets for 'fraction' of purchase price, eyes Windows, iOS, Android

Nokia's Qt project could be reinvigorated now that it's been bought out in its entirety by Finnish firm Digia, following a partial acquisition last year. Digia is eyeing porting the development platform, used to code applications for Symbian and Meego, to Windows 8 (the PR doesn't mention Windows Phone 8), Android and iOS in the near future. While a fee hasn't been mentioned, it's reportedly a "fraction" of the $150 million that Nokia originally paid when it purchasing Trolltech in 2008 -- which probably won't improve matters on the handset maker's balance sheet.

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