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Nokia Buys German Mobile Navigation Software Company Gate5
Sep 1 2006, 12:00pm CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Mobile phone giant Nokia buys German navigation software company Gate5.
Navigation will become a standard feature in mobile phone in the next few years. Nokia is bringing that know-how now in-house with the purchase of Gate5.
Gate5 offers navigation, routing and mapping products as well as Smart2Go a location-based services platform.Gate5 was founded in 1999, is privately owned, and has its headquarters in Berlin, Germany with about 70 employees.
More details in this press-release. We reported about the Smart2Go product a while ago.
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