MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste.

MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. MetaCarta’s still sitting on the home page a mashup with Google Maps. But there also other compatible card services include: Microsoft, Yahoo and ESRI.

As part of his advance in the market for mobile services, Nokia has expanded particularly map-based services for years. Its biggest acquisition in this area was that of Navteq for $ 8.1 billion in 2007.

In August 2009, Nokia introduced a netbook, which was equipped with the unusual feature of this device class of a GPS chipset: the booklet 3G. A month later, the purchase of Dopplr, a travel community. In January 2010 it was then the map service Ovi Maps for most of their smartphone models available free of charge and countered that Google’s announcement of a free service routing with turn instructions.

Simultaneously with the purchase of Nokia MetaCarta announced it has completed the acquisition of Novarra. Its mobile browser and services will come into the middle class of the Series 40 mobile phones are used.

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MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]

MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]

MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]

MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]

MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]

MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]

MetaCarta still advertises on the home page with Google mash-ups (Screenshot: ZDNet) Nokia announces a takeover. For an unknown price, it has acquired the location-based search service MetaCarta. He was previously in private hands. Its technology will be incorporated into Nokia’s Geolokalisierungsdienste. MetaCarta has about 30 employees. Company headquarters are in Cambridge in the U.S. [...]