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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: quartersawyer who wrote (53020)	6/30/2006 4:20:04 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197012

Besides, if Nokia (or Qualcomm) understand that the only way to gain favorable rulings is by pledging to plow profits into an Industrial Park or Research Institute in a target country, knowing that the money will be handled by corrupt people in that country, does that make N (or Q) "corrupt"? Nope, politics and high stakes business as usual. Nokia is very good at placing plants where they'll do the most good from a political and a business standpoint. Brazil is a terrific example. As a fabless manufacturer, Q has little to offer. Asking for royalties, nay, demanding them in a fairly unreasonable manner from locals, while not offering much on the back end, will never make friends and influence people.