Nokia Maps a Course for Its Location Business, Unveils “Here” Cloud Service

The company is also buying Earthmine, a California-based 3-D mapping company, releasing an iOS app and partnering with Mozilla to bring Nokia maps to Firefox OS.
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Nokia Seals Mapping Deal With Oracle

Nokia Corp., looking to increase use of its mapping software, will unveil a new deal with Oracle Corp. intended to give Oracle’s stable of customers access to Nokia’s growing vault of map data and location services.

Nokia: Map Apps Can’t Be Built Overnight. Just Look at Apple’s.

Nokia turns Apple’s map embarrassment into a selling point for its own location platform.
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Bezos on Android: We Like It!

In an interview, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that Amazon is quite pleased with its ability to build on top of the operating system Google created.
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Nokia’s Microsoft Partnership: Does the New Strategy Add Up?

Nokia has already announced the key piece of its strategy–a shift to Windows Phone for its future smartphones. Now the company is set to talk about the financial implications of that and go through the rest of its strategy, which includes a mix of Symbian and even a dash of MeeGo. Mobilized has live coverage of the event, which started at around 4 am PT, or noon here in London.

Exclusive: Nokia’s Stephen Elop Talks About How He Made His Big OS Decision

In an interview, Nokia’s chief executive talks about the factors that went into choosing among three possibilities for its high-end smartphone business–sticking with plans to develop around MeeGo, shifting to Android or adopting Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

Nokia Bank Account Coordinates Added to Navteq Database

It might seem like a lot of money–$8.1 billion–to pay for a company whose reported second-quarter net income was just $40.9 million on revenue of $202.3 million. Unless you happen to be the world’s largest cellphone provider. And you believe the company in question to be the key to your success in the location-based services [...]