The news of Nokia’s acquisition of Navteq for $8.1B hit the news wire Monday, while I was at the SMX Mobile-Local show. Fascinating news! After the TomTom acquisition of TeleAtlas, it was only a question of when not if. I completely “get it”, and I’ve been scratching my head as to why this headline wasn’t stolen by Google or Microsoft.
the news…
Good coverage and context provided by NY Times, as usual. CNBC also did a nice piece with some added industry insight, but for a well outlined analysis and report form the news, check out Mike Dobson’s Telemapics blog postings (a guy with enough “map pioneer grey hair” to add real insight!). (more…)
