Uber Wants To Buy Nokia Maps For 3,000 Million Dollars

Uber does not simply buy the map service deCarta, now it wants more, and has been raised to put an offer on the table of nothing less than Nokia. The whim of the company is none other than Here Maps, and the offer of some not inconsiderable $3,000 million. But after the offer is hidden a dangerous bid commanded by a great list of manufacturers of German cars, such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as the portal of searches Chinese Baidu. Why so much interest? Here basically because it has managed to capture a market share of almost 80% in browsers for vehicles according point in The New York Times, so everything takes more sense now.

The idea of Über with this purchase is to enrich your system allowing UberPool bind passengers with drivers. In the side of the Germans, the interest passes by be able to cope with the supply imposed by Google with its maps, and allow us to develop autopilot vehicles without having to use the software of Google, who is also working in an autonomous vehicle.

[Via: The New York Times]