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Digital Maps Company HERE Is Looking For a New Investor
by Reuters AUGUST 30, 2016, 2:45 PM EDT
Dozens of parties have shown interest.
Digital maps company HERE, controlled by German carmakers BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen, aims to find a new investor by the end of the year, HERE chief Edzard Overbeek told a German newspaper.
“The carmakers want to open the circle of shareholders. We are talking to dozens of parties interested in taking a stake,” daily Handelsblatt quoted Overbeek as saying in an interview published on Tuesday.
Germany’s luxury automotive groups including Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen’s Audi division, and BMW bought HERE for 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) from Nokia NOK 0.88% last year to create an alternative digital mapping business to Google GOOGL -0.49% .
Daimler confirmed in April it was in talks with Amazon AMZN -0.48% and Microsoft MSFT -0.36% about taking a minority stake in HERE. Auto supplier Bosch has also said it was
in talks with HERE.
“It is important to find the right mixture of owners … Partners from the IT sector, from logistics or retail are possible,” Overbeek said, according to the newspaper, without naming any possible investors.
Intelligent mapping systems supply information to control self-driving cars, which are equipped with street-scanning sensors to measure traffic and road conditions. This location data can in turn be shared with other map users.
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