Any bored investment bankers out there?
All the talk lately about Bubble 2.0, and I've started to think that investment bankers should start thinking about a few big mergers in order to get in on the action (since we know all the web 2.0 IPOs are still a few months years decades away).
As I've been mulling the mobile Internet and seeing the desktop and mobile phone become more and more interconnected, I've been thinking about whether Apple and Nokia should merge.
Apple Computer, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of personal computers and related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions worldwide. It also designs, develops, and markets a line of portable digital music players along with related accessories and services, including the online distribution of third-party music and audio books.
Nokia Corporation manufactures mobile devices principally based on global system for mobile communications, code division multiple access (CDMA), and wideband CDMA (WCDMA) technologies. The Multimedia division focuses on bringing connected mobile multimedia to consumers in the form of advanced mobile devices, including 3G WCDMA mobile devices and solutions.
The combined company would be committed to innovation and community on an unprecedented global scale, stemming from the shared admiration for those concepts that both companies already have. Their design teams would have a lot in common, learn a lot from each other and probably realize they're working on similar stuff anyway. The merger would provide a new platform for mind-blowing, cross-device innovation and it would cause countless identity crises on the parts of other companies. Of course, it would also be the biggest technology merger ever, with a combined current market cap of $115B (but not the biggest ever as I think GSK has those honors at roughly $160B).
Am I crazy?

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