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Uber Wants To Buy Nokia's Mapping Services

Posted by timothy on from the where-you-are dept.

jfruh writes: When Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft, one of the services left that it intended to rebuild the company on was Here, its rival to Google Maps. But now a deal is said to be in the works to sell Here to Uber, a company that relies heavily on navigation services and that doesn't want to end up too reliant on Google, a potential rival in the futuristic self-driving car business.

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  1. Re:They better be fast by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should just support and contribute to OpenStreetMap. The world does not need yet another proprietary map system, and Uber needs to focus on their core business rather than getting side tracked into a lot of silly vertical integration.