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[O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies] Nokia Acquires Plazes To Be Ovi's New Mapping App: 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.

 [Techcraver.com | Craving tech, craving life!] Location Based Services Becoming Real: Nokia Acquires Plazes: Nokia has been delivering some great mobile applications that utilize location and GPS data as of late, so I’m very anxious to see how the Plazes team is positioned within the company and future offerings.

[Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones] Nokia buys Plazes location-based social networking service: Nokia has been scooping up a bunch of interesting companies in recent months, in areas such as mapping and media-sharing. Now it’s bought someone else: location-based social networking firm Plazes. It’sa pretty neat service - the idea ...

[TODAY ON FOUND3R - Venture Capital STORIES] Nokia Buys German Location-based Navigation Startup Plazes: Nokia has bought Germany location-based Web 2.0 and mobile firm Plazes for an undisclosed amount. as our sister site the a:c euro reported, Plazes is a Swiss company that was founded in December 2005 with R&D is in Berlin.

 [venturebeat] Location buzz continues: Nokia buys Plazes, Verizon backs Loopt & NIW: [...] even a day after the buzz-worthy purchase of the location-based mobile social network, Plazes, Nokia has made a much larger move. One that will continue to evolve the mobile landscape: It has [...]

 [last100] Nokia purchases Plazes, a location-based social networking service: 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.

[Untitled] Nokia to take location-based social networking mainstream: Nokia is placing a massive bet on Location-based Services. The company now includes GPS functionality in almost all of its most recent handsets, and has been bundling its own mapping software (based on a previous acquisition of Gate5, another Berlin-based startup).

 [WeFi Blog] Nokia buys Plazes: Nokia Maps is a map application on Nokia’s Symbian phones which shows you not only a map of a city or region, but also the restaurants, hotels, shops and other establishments around you. So having Plazes show you where your friends are on a Nokia Map would be very cool.

 [Webware.com] Nokia acquires Plazes, eyes geo market: With more GPS-enabled handsets on the way--iPhone 3G, I'm looking at you--there are few Web 2.0 niches that are more hyped-up than location-based services. The latest evidence: Nokia announced Monday that it plans to acquire Plazes, .

 [TechMacro] Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network: To us, that sums up everything Nokia is doing, including today’s announcement. Nokia, the world’s largest handset manufacturer, is purchasing Plazes, the location-based social networking service based in Berlin.

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