Any of those price tags would make a merger the most
expensive in tech history, but Qualcomm and lead director Tom Horton have said it's «just not even close to what the value of the company is.»
Now the combined entity — with an estimated $ 74 billion in annual revenue — wants to demonstrate that as a result of the largest
merger in tech history, one plus one really does equal three, as Jeremy Burton, Dell's chief marketing officer described to Fortune ahead of the show.
I'm intrigued by this — only because I remain jaw droppingly impressed by Nokia's ability to maintain such a substantial foothold in the developing world — but if Normandy does turn out to be closed Android I will be unable to imagine another corporate blunder of this
size in tech history.
In the immediate wake of the fiasco that was the explosion - prone Galaxy Note 7, a number of pundits thought that Samsung would never be able to recover from what was arguably the biggest PR
nightmare in tech history.