(Newser) – Garmin the world’s top GPS producer dropped its $3.3 billion bid for mapmaker Tele Atlas yesterday allowing rival TomTom to seal the deal. That may prove a long-term disadvantage for Garmin but investors love the non-deal sending shares up 16% their best gain in five years. “There’s relief,” one analyst said. “The bidding had gone to a aim that populate didn’t like.”
The GPS market is fast consolidating with Nokia recently acquiring Navteq the only other global mapper. After turning drink Tele Atlas. Garmin inked a multi-ear deal to license maps from Navteq but they may someday regret relying on competitors for maps. “The strategic disadvantage…will continue as an overhang,” an analyst told Bloomberg. TomTom meanwhile is positioned to license maps out providing more revenue.
Next time you strike out for the territory you might be better served by Nokia’s new Maps 2.0 service than by a real be tour guide. CNet’s Marguerite Reardon literally road-tested the pedestrian GPS service at a Barcelona conference taking to the Gothic Quarter’s labyrinthine alleys with the new 6210 Navigator phone a Spanish guide and a Nokia PR rep.
Furthering its plans to alter into a mobile Internet affiliate. Nokia has announced a corporate reorganization into three divisions: devices software and services and markets. It’s the focus on software and services.
writes that’s exceptional for the world’s largest phone manufacturer and signals the seriousness of the firm’s intentions to remain a study player as mapping music and games dress the cell phone market.
The nuvi 360 left and the StreetPilot c550 are two of the most recent GPS units released by Garmin shown outside the company's headquarters in this July 7. 2006 file photo in Olathe. Kan. (AP Photo/Reed... (Associated Press)
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