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[DL Media Roundup] HELSINKI - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services.

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[GPS Obsessed] Nokia Buys Plazes Location Aware Web App ”” GPS Obsessed: The big news today is Nokia’s intention to purchase LBS web app Plazes, which will provide the handset maker with social mapping for its new web portal Ovi. Plazes has been around for a while now and is more or less a service that lets .

[TheNextWeb.org] Keep it in the family: Plazes acquired by Nokia: The team is very excited to be able to further develop the Plazes service that is online today together with Nokia. If all goes well, in the near future plazes will be made available to millions of Nokia customers both online and on millions of mobile devices.

[Profy.Com] Nokia Purchases Plazes for the Voyeuristically-Inclined | Profy ...: In the meantime, lovers of Nokia phones have a new social platform to look forward to. Just keep in mind that your loved ones might have a much clearer understanding of where all those vague "business"

[Mobile Marketer Food and beverage Sectors Feed] Nokia acquires Plazes to expand location-based services - Mobile ...: The system then triggers an update of the user’s location and status on the Plazes.com Web site and sends out messages to external systems to publish the user’s new activity to services like Twitter or Facebook. This lets consumers coordinate activities with their network of friends and family, as well as to collect and share interesting Plazes using their mobile phone.

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[Thomas Crampton] Nokia acquires Felix Petersen’s Plazes - Thomas Crampton: Espoo, Finland and Berlin, Germany - Nokia and Plazes (www.plazes.com) today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities: why they are at a given location at a given time, whether in the past, present or future.

[Startup Meme] Nokia confirms deal with Symbian | Startup Meme - Technology ...: Sardar Mohkim Khan - June 25, 2008; Location based Social Network Plazes bought out by Nokia Sardar Mohkim Khan - June 23, 2008 .

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog] Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Plazes Acquired by Nokia: The Plazes team takes pride in being one of the first services inthe location-context arena. When we started in 2005 the potential ofthat space might have been obvious but it was an uphill battlenevertheless with so many concepts gone sour before. 

[Enterprise Software Blog] Enterprise Software Blog » Blog Archive » Nokia Buys Plazes, a ...: “This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy,” Niklas Savander, the head of Nokia’s Internet services, said in a statement.

[Fone Arena - The Mobile Weblog] Nokia buys Plazes Location Based Social Network | Fone Arena - The ...: “This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy” says

[wirelessinfo.com Blog] Nokia Acquires Plazes - Blog - WirelessInfo.com - Cell Phone ...: "This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy," Niklas Savander, the head of Nokia's Internet services, said in a statement.

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