To: sylvester80 who wrote (22014 ) 9/20/2012 2:22:57 PM From: zax 4 Recommendations Respond to Tim Cook is doing such a blunderful job X-D blogs.wsj.com Nokia NOK1V.HE -0.45% , which has spent billions of dollars building up its mapping assets during the past few years. Google GOOG +0.05% dominates smartphone navigation, Nokia owns one of the most widely used digital mapping platforms after, four years ago, it acquired Navteq—a company that provides the underlying digital mapping information that is used by GPS navigation devices and Internet services—in an $8.1 billion transaction. post on its official blog Garmin Ltd GRMN -0.45% ., as well as Web-based map applications, including those of Yahoo! Inc YHOO -0.50% . and Microsoft Corp MSFT +1.12% .’s Bing Maps, use Nokia’s Navteq’s mapping platform. Nokia has recently launched a number of upgrades to its own mapping applications that come preinstalled on its Lumia devices, and in November last year, Nokia also launched a public transport application for its smartphones, that provides public transport information for many cities around the world.
