Nokia, based in Finland, recently announced that they are buying digital-map provider Navteq Corp. for $8.1 billion dollars. This is the largest buyout that Nokia has been affected with in their operating record. “The navigation field is a fast-growing vocation, and with location-based services expanding like a shot into mobile-communications devices, the vigour is poised for even new growth,” said Nokia Chief Top banana Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. “The behave will strengthen Nokia’s placing in the GPS/maps market. Acknowledged the big push around thisfield, this move makes feel,” said Carolina Milanesi, enquiry director in the mobile devices and consumer services drill of Gartner. The give out has been approved by both companies boards and is expected to shut down in the first quarter of 2008. Nokia is expected to money the deal through a mix of spondulicks and debt.
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