Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ.
The navigation area is a fast growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth. NAVTEQ brings a number of key assets to Nokia: a great team with best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform with the broadest geographical coverage.
NAVTEQ will continue to provide the most advanced and flexible map data platform to navigation industry players. With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services offering and bring to market the most innovative, context aware Nokia Internet services with accelerated time to market.
NAVTEQ leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has signed a license agreement with Fine Digital USA, a leading navigation solution provider, to feature NAVTEQ map data in its new portable navigation (PND) product, FineDrive 400.
NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, today announced that its expansive digital map data for North America will be available in the new HP iPAQ hw6500 series Mobile Messenger. With NAVTEQ premium data ‘giving it direction’, HP’s iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger with integrated GPS receiver(1) offers users route guidance nationwide from one destination to another.