The US company Uber, offering reservation services through smartphone vehicle with driver, submitted a bid of $ 3 billion for Here, Nokia mapping service, said Thursday 7 May the New York Times citing people familiar with the matter. Contacted by AFP, Uber did not respond immediately.
Nokia had said in mid-April on the sidelines of its merger agreement with the French group Alcatel-Lucent, examine “strategic options” at its disposal for its mapping activity Here, based in Berlin and is one of the major competitors of Google Maps.
According to the New York Times , Uber would compete with a joint bid being prepared by German carmakers BMW, Audi (Volkswagen Group) and Mercedes-Benz (Daimler), allied to the Chinese internet group Baidu.
An investment company would also have already made an offer and a decision could be announced by the end of May
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