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SlashPhone (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Nokia announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Plazes (www.plazes.com), a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. The deal was initially announced on June 23, 2008. By acquiring Plazes, Nokia will extend its context-based service offering with social presence and time-based activity planning features. Plazes adds the elements [...]
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IntoMobile (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
This was fast. About three weeks ago we wrote about it and now it's completed. I'm talking about Nokia acquiring Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. According to the official release, by acquiring Plazes, Nokia will be able to "extend its context-based service offering with social presence and [...]
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InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The deal will help Nokia beef up its location-based mobile social networking offerings.
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Unwired View (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In a rather short press release, Nokia notifies the general public (and reporters who like to read company sites late at night) that they have just finished their acquision of Berlin, Germany based startup Plazes. The deal was first announced on June 23rd of this year. And now it’s official. According to Nokia, the Plazes acquisition [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
ESPOO, Finland, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia (NYSE: )
announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Plazes
(), a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people
with its principal operations in Berlin. The deal was initially announced
on June 23, 2008.
By acquiring Plazes, Nokia will be able to extend its context-based
service offering with social presence and time-based activity...
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IntoMobile (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Plazes&Nokia from Tiburon-TV - Viktoria Trosien on Vimeo. On June 23 we found out Nokia was going to buy Plazes, well here is a video with the founder, Felix Petersen, sharing his thoughts about the whole thing and location based services in general. [Via: ruk] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Nokia to acquire social-activity service PlazesIs Nokia working with u-blox?SK [...]
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blog.delaranja.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
It’s great news to hear that Plazes was acquired by Nokia a few weeks ago. I heard about Plazes 4 years ago during a presentation at reboot and it feels good to see an entrepreneur start and then succeed. During the last 4 years many questions were raised as to what was Plazes all about, how [...]
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Ring Nokia (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Nokia has recently announced the acquisition of the context-aware social-activity service Plazes. Under the agreement, the Finnish giant will acquire all assets of the privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. By acquiring Plazes, Nokia will be able to extend its context-based service offering with social presence and time-based activity planning [...]
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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Nokia and Plazes today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities: why they are at a given location at a given time, whether in the past, present or...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
SpotJots is a new site that’s ready to reveal its beta. It’s a microblogging tool that lets you share your life experiences as they happen. Sounds like Twitter, right? Or even the recently acquired Plazes? Throw in some mapping features and media attachments and you’ve got something that looks a lot [...]
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P2P Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Plazes announced yesterday that is has been bought by Nokia . Plazes is a location based presence platform, which I've covered here and elsewhere before. In fact, I'm somewhat of an early user of Plazes who has been sticking with the service through a few incarnations, so I'm pretty excited about these news. pic of plazes nokia Of course, now comes the hard part. It's always a balancing act when very...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Yesterday’s news that Nokia acquired location based social network Plazes, was worthy only of making our Pilgrim’s Picks. read more
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Wireless and Mobile News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Nokia and Plazes (www.plazes.com) announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to...
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Dial-a-Phone (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Nokia has today announced two strategic acquisitions that will help it fend off the challenge from the Apple iPhone and Google’s upcoming Android operating system. The major acquisition is of the final 52 percent of Symbian Ltd for £209m. Nokia already owned 48 percent of the company but has made a clear statement of intent by [...]
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SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Yesterday's news that Nokia acquired location based social network Plazes, was worthy only of making our Pilgrim's Picks. Today's news that Nokia has acquired mobile platform Symbian -and plans to make it open source-is definitely worthy of its own post. Nokia already owned 48% of Symbian , but is willing to pay around $410 million in cash to acquire the remaining 52%. So, what's Nokia's plan for Symbian?...