I was invited to give a talk at the MobileMonday Helsinki event on June 8th, 2009. Here is a summary of my speech (as I recall it) titled "The Real Nokia Ovi Story".

Ovi Internet services and the Ovi Store are news even for many industry-followers. 10 years is a long time, especially in high-tech business, but that's how long Nokia has been developing online services for consumers. That's not all. The world's largest mobile phone company opened its first online application store back in 2003. Haven't heard of them? Yes, I thought so. These projects were created by visionary teams that lacked top management support and sufficient resources.

When Club Nokia service was launched in 2000, it caused an international incident...

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