Nokia has finally reached an agreement with the Federation of German auto industry spends selling maps "Hare" Here service sector sites and services, in a deal worth 2.5 billion euros (2.75 billion US dollars).
The deal gives, among the company's Finnish and the Federation of German car industry, which includes both the "BMW" BMW, and "Audi" Audi, and "Mercedes" Mercedes, of the first value of the project maps sector worth 2.8 billion euros (3.1 billion US dollars) .
Experts say that the deal commensurate with the gradual auto industry companies to provide more services and Internet-based automation to help drivers plans.
Nokia said in a statement on Monday that the maps "Hare" service to the evolution of cloud service sites allow users to take advantage of the data generated by vehicles, equipment and infrastructure, to provide real-time services sites, and customized, and predictive.Three German car companies and has made clear it will share equal stakes in the "Hare", but they will follow the non-interference in the work of the service, which will continue to operate independently to serve the entire industry approach.
The companies said that the acquisition process aimed at ensuring the provision of services and products, "Hare" in the long run as an open platform, independent of the maps based on cloud computing, as well as providing other navigation services that would be accessible to customers of the automotive industry, and other sectors."Hare" present Maps and Location Services for nearly 200 countries with more than 50 languages. Until the end of June last company included 6454 employees, and during the first half of this year, net sales amounted to 552 euros Mellon.
After completion of the acquisition deal - expected during the first quarter of next year - will remain from Nokia two sectors, namely: "Nokia Networks", which focuses on infrastructure, software and networking services, and "Nokia Technologies" which provides the development of advanced technology service.The Nokia announced mid-April / April last acquisition of the "Alcatel-Lucent" Alcatel-Lucent in a deal value of French telecommunications company was estimated at 15.6 billion euros.
The Finnish company stressed , which sold mobile devices for Microsoft sector, newly intention to return to the smart phone sector, but in the fourth quarter of 2016 at the earliest, in line with its agreement with Microsoft.
Nokia also plans to return to the market of consumer electronics technology, "virtual reality" gate, where revealed last Tuesday for "Ouzou" OZO, a digital camera for recording audio and video angle of 360 degrees.
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