Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent are joining forces in an attempt to create a new global leader in the fast-evolving communications equipment sector, which is still trying to come to terms with the Internet ...

Lucent Technologies last week landed a DSL deal with the only US regional Bell that Alcatel had failed to partner with, Qwest Communications International, and that could make the courtship of the two ...

Nokia Wednesday confirmed its plans to acquire rival Alcatel-Lucent in an all-stock deal that's valued at $16.6 billion. "Together, we expect to have the scale to lead in every area in which we choose ...

Nokia Corp., once a household name as the leading seller of cellphones, agreed to buy a major rival in its effort to remake itself into a global leader in another telecom field. With the onset of ...

Nokia has announced that it plans to move ahead with the purchase of Alcatel-Lucent, less than one day after confirming that the two companies were discussing a deal. Nokia will pay $16.6 billion in ...

On Wall Street, timing is everything. Just ask Alcatel, which used the demise of its merger talks with Lucent Technologies to drop a profit warning. After weeks of speculation about an Alcatel and ...

Nokia could soon be the largest maker of mobile phone network equipment in the world ahead of Ericsson and Huawei. It just acquired French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for 15.6 billion euros ...

Will 2013 be the year of the leveraged buyout? Alcatel would fit snugly into that potential trend. At these price levels, Alcatel-Lucent starts to look like a tempting takeover target. But what would ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs worldwide, calling it the last chance to turn the company around from heavy losses. It was the latest ...

Finnish telecoms-equipment maker Nokia confirmed on Wednesday that it's buying French rival Alcatel-Lucent in an all-stock deal that values Alcatel-Lucent at $16.6 billion. The Finnish company said ...

A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second ...

France's Alcatel SA, pursuing a trans-Atlantic transaction that would unite two of the world's biggest communications-equipment suppliers, is near a deal to acquire Lucent Technologies Inc. for about ...