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December 10, 2012 04:30 pm EST

Huawei spending $93 million on software R&D facility in Helsinki, Finland

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For those Nokia employees on the wrong end of the company's austerity drive, it seems like another aspiring smartphone power has its eyes on their underutilized talent. Huawei has announced that it'll invest €70 million ($93 million) in a new R&D facility in Helsinki, fifteen miles down the road from Espoo. The new outfit is tasked with developing software tweaks for its Android smartphones and tablets, as well as the company's forthcoming Windows Phone 8 hardware. 30 employees will join the company at the start of the process, with 70 more expected join over the next few years as it tries to double its European workforce to 14,000. We're secretly hoping that the folks from Jolla go and visit their new neighbors in short order -- after all, Huawei is still on the hunt for its own OS.

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