Microsoft Corp. is closing a Swedish research and development unit it bought three years ago, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The Mobile Internet Business Unit in Stockholm, previously known as Sendit, developed software that helped bring wireless Internet access to mobile phones. Microsoft bought the company in 1999 for about dlrs 100 million, spokesman Adam Anger said. "We are reorganizing the group that's there, which will result in the closing of the mobile business unit," Anger said. He said the technologies developed at the Stockholm unit had been integrated into Microsoft's core products, such as server software developed at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
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