{"id":521712,"date":"2010-04-09T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=72646"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:56:34","slug":"nokia-buys-metacarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521712","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Buys Metacarta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Mobile\/\">Mobile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/acquisitions\/\">acquisitions<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Wade Roush wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, MA-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacarta.com\">Metacarta<\/a>, whose software searches digital text for references to place names and addresses, has been acquired by Nokia, the Espoo, Finland-based mobile hardware giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/press\/press-releases\/showpressrelease?newsid=1401778\">announced today<\/a>. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and it&#8217;s not yet clear how Nokia will integrate Metacarta&#8217;s technology into its mobile offerings, which include navigation services through the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.nokia.com\/ovi-services-and-apps\/ovi-maps\">Ovi Maps<\/a> application. Nokia&#8217;s terse press release said only that the 30-person startup&#8217;s technology will be &#8220;used in the area of local search in location and other service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/04\/09\/nokia-buys-metacarta\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Nokia%20Buys%20Metacarta%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=72646\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/04\/09\/nokia-buys-metacarta\/&#038;t=Nokia%20Buys%20Metacarta\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/04\/09\/nokia-buys-metacarta\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=Nokia+Buys+Metacarta&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fnokia-buys-metacarta%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/d1.openx.org\/ck.php?bannerid=' ><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img src='http:\/\/d1.openx.org\/avw.php?bannerid=&amp;cb=701' border='0' alt='' \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7b7037393268bbac23daa2b78b129c1d&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7b7037393268bbac23daa2b78b129c1d&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jwAOZvH8sDzh-IukAxI8P5t33do\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jwAOZvH8sDzh-IukAxI8P5t33do\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jwAOZvH8sDzh-IukAxI8P5t33do\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jwAOZvH8sDzh-IukAxI8P5t33do\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/OMKRrw9z2VA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile, deals, acquisitions Wade Roush wrote: Cambridge, MA-based Metacarta, whose software searches digital text for references to place names and addresses, has been acquired by Nokia, the Espoo, Finland-based mobile hardware giant announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and it&#8217;s not yet clear how Nokia will integrate Metacarta&#8217;s technology into its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}