New purchases reveals big ambitions’s known so far mainly due to the efficient circumvent local regulations transport and tax.
Source: press materials
Uber taxi company from Microsoft Bing takes all the resources associated with digital maps. Financial details of the agreement have not been disclosed.
photos, topographic data in digital form, a data processing center in Colorado and 100 engineers – so it looks like the latest purchase Uber taxi company. The company in many countries have problems with the law, because she presents itself not as a carrier, but only as a supplier of application that connects drivers with people looking for transport.
The Uber some time trying to start your own maps. Together with the Chinese Baidu (a shareholder Uber) tried to buy Nokia Here for approx. 3 billion. In March, the company bought a Californian DecArt, which map he had used in their applications for tracking fleet.
On the other hand, Microsoft is trying to get rid of departments not directly related to the core business. All middle “thrown” on the new operating system Windows family and office software. The maps are one of those industries that Satya Nadella, head of the company, is trying to cut.
“Over the last year we have made many efforts to focus efforts on our core business strategy. Therefore, we will no longer collect information to the maps and pictures to them. Instead, we will offer content from our partners, “- reads the message sent to a Microsoft spokesperson ZDNet editors.
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