Rafat Ali
Jun 30, 2008 8:54 PM
Tele Atlas, the Dutch mapping company which was recently bought by Tom Tom, has signed a five-year deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to include its maps on various new services from the online giant, and also includes porting the maps to mobiles based on its Android mobile OS system. The…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jun 5, 2008 6:27 AM
Some news on a pair of related acquisitions… Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) $8.1 billion proposed acquisition of Navteq is unlikely to get objection from the EU, reports Reuters. Back in March, there had been some talk that the tie-up would receive heightened scrutiny, but apparently the time has passed for the…
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Dianne See Morrison
May 22, 2008 6:42 AM
Alain de Taeye, CEO of digital map maker Tele Atlas, has said it is wrong to assume there are only four players in the digital navigation world—Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Navteq, Tom Tom and TeleAtlas, because such a notion discounts Google, reports Reuters. De Taeye, speaking at the Reuters Global TMT…
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Dianne See Morrison
May 14, 2008 6:56 AM
Car navigation device maker TomTom’s proposed 2.9 billion euro ($4.5 billion) purchase of digital- mapping firm Tele Atlas has received the all clear from the EU. Bloomberg reports that the European Commission’s decision concludes a six-month probe, which saw TomTom rejecting EU demands to license Tele Atlas’s database to create…
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