According to a Forbes interview with Russian technology blogger Eldar Murtazin, poor sales of the Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 have led the struggling telecommunications company to resume talks with Microsoft over a possible acquisition.
This isn't the first time we've heard a rumor about a possible Microsoft buyout of Nokia. The first time was back in June, but both companies quickly killed those rumors. Murtazin believes that talks between the two parties resumed back in November 2011. The blogger also claims that Nokia could sell off its smartphone division to Microsoft, but keep working on feature phones for "emerging markets."
Nokia has already denied this most recent rumor.
