# Prof. Nicholas Economides on Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's handset business

1 Faculty News February 14, 2014 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/business/microsoft-plunges-into-handset-battle-as-google-withdraws.html?_r=1) -- “'Google has won,' said [Nicholas Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides), an economics professor at the Stern School of Business of New York University, and currently a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in network economics and electronic commerce. 'We’re in a world where the biggest market share by far is Android. And the second-biggest is Apple. Then, way behind, is Microsoft. What’s in this game for Microsoft?'”

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