Nokia buying NAVTEQ by 8,100 million dollars, nothing else and nothing less As they explain in his note of press, announce the intention to take control of their supplier of maps, although the treatment is not closed.
NAVTEQ is one of the great ones in the business of the maps - perhaps only surpassed by TeleAtlas, although I do not have compared numbers of the business of both - and with this Nokia purchase shows clear the their fort bets by the services based on the local GPS, maps and searches, cradles in the geographic position. Via Engadget. A movement with sense within the bet of Nokia to reinventar itself. If they are going to put in the center of his business the services based on maps, has logic that they want to have the strategic component within the company, something that already they did years ago with Symbian, when the bet was smartphones. Sample of the movements of Nokia towards the services based on maps and geographic position are:
* Nokia the 330 and GPS in the car.
* Smart2go and the GPS in the moving body like “killer-app”.
* GPS Nokia 500 Navigation Car.
* Nokia N95 and the GPS in the moving body more close.
* GPS in all the Nokia moving bodies.
Source: Error500