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[GPS BUSINESS NEWS] By acquiring Plazes, Nokia Nokia gets the third element of the LBS triptych business case: local search-navigation-social networking, an important part of its service/web strategy under the Ovi brand. "This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy," said Niklas Savander, Head of Nokia Services &

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[Indian LBS Insights] LBS Social Networking worth $3.3Bn by 2013 « Indian LBS Insights: Nokia has also showed the sign with the acquisition of Plazes (Berling based startup) in the recent past. Also the fact that web based social networks, which already have the traffic peaking high on their servers and yet not matured .

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[O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.] Nokia Acquires Plazes: To Be Ovi's New Mapping App - O'Reilly Radar: Nokia, the world's leading handset manufacturer, has announced its intention to acquire LBS web app Plazes. Berlin-based Plazes will provide Nokia with a social mapping property for Ovi, its new web portal.

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[Read/WriteWeb News] Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network ...: Imagine everything Nokia offers wrapped in a cuddly location-based, mapping, social network cloth where all of its users are connected to their interests and each other in the virtual and physical worlds at the same time.

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[CNET News.com] Nokia to acquire Plazes, eyes geo market | The Social - CNET News: "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," the Plazes blog post read. It will still be available as a standalone service, and its iPhone application is still on track.

[VentureBeat » Mobile/Comm] Location buzz continues: Nokia buys Plazes, Verizon backs Loopt ...: Thousand Tiny Tigers » Blog Archive » Nokia buys Symbian, opens it for war with Google Android said:. even a day after the buzz-worthy purchase of the location-based mobile social network, Plazes, Nokia has made a much larger move.

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[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

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