Intel Acquires Navigation and Location-Based Service Provider Telmap

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Friday said it had signed an agreement to acquire Telmap, a provider of navigation and location-based services, search and content. Telmap This move is a step towards expanding the chip giant's mobile software services capabilities as Intel continues to grow in the area of software and services.

Telmap provides unique, end-to-end mobile location-based services that include the Mobile Location Companion, which is the world’s first personalized mobile location companion, serving as the meeting place for all things local, social and personal, a complementary web companion, and a location platform and APIs to support customers in delivering a strong LBS strategy.

Telmap is all about empowering mobile industry players to offer worldwide mobile location-based services that enrich consumers’ on-the-go experiences anywhere in the world, whether in their cars or on-foot, using a wide range of mobile devices. As such, the Telmap Mobile location Companion is open to premium content from any third party content provider, adding value to each consumer in their respective geographies. Telmap is the selected location solution provider of leading industry players Orange FT Group, Vodafone, Vodacom, SFR, Telefonica-O2, MTS, SingTel, OPTUS and more.

Telmap will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel and will thus continue to serve its existing customers.

From a consumer perspective, Telmap should help Intel to bring to life its vision for integrated, uniform experiences across consumer devices. Telmap has a lot of expertise around end-to-end mobile local search, mapping and navigation services.

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