Charles Davies, head of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) R&D’s strategy and architecture team, and former CTO of Symbian is leaving the beleaguered handset maker for TomTom, the Dutch makers of GPS navigation systems for cars, devices, and other platforms, reports The Register. Davies, who has a PhD in plasma physics, came…

TomTom is focusing its mobile strategy on building a platform for developers to use rather than creating its own apps, said CEO Harold Goddijn in the Q4 earnings conference call. “If you look at our business strategy in mobile, I don’t think we should aim to develops tens of small…

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…

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…