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Nokia Chat + Plazes (atmaspheric | endeavors)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:33:48 GMT

Peter Rukavina wrote a very cool hack for Nokia Chat and Plazes over the weekend. Using a jabber bot, you can request Plazes places based on your location. Of course the results vary based on user submitted data, but the idea is quite compelling and something I would imagine we’ll see more of [...]

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Nokia completes Plazes acquisition (SlashPhone)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:58:02 GMT

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...

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Nokia completes acquisition of Plazes (IntoMobile)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:38:18 GMT

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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Nokia Completes Plazes Acquisition (InformationWeek - All Stories)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:39:00 GMT

In a move that will help Nokia (NYSE: ) increase its presence in mobile social networking, the company has completed its acquisition of the privately owned startup Plazes. The acquisition had previously been announced at the end of June, and the purchase price was not disclosed. The Berlin-based Plazes enables mobile users to plan, record, and share their social activities using various...

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Nokia has completed acquiring Plazes (Unwired View)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:11 GMT

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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Nokia Completes Plazes Acquisition (PR News Wire )

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:26:00 GMT

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...

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Video: Founder of Plazes talks about the Nokia acquisition (IntoMobile)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:50:15 GMT

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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Past, present and future of Plazes (blog.delaranja.com)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:38:03 GMT

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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Nokia to acquire social-activity service Plazes (IntoMobile)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:56:51 GMT

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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Nokia acquires Plazes and double its stake on LBS :: MOBIZ (Chinalyst - China blogs in English)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:35:00 GMT

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...

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SpotJots Combines Microblogging with Geolocation (Mashable)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:43:23 GMT

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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Nokia buys Plazes (P2P Blog)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:50:33 GMT

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...

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Nokia Buys Mobile Platform 'Symbian' (WebPro News)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:32:56 GMT

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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Nokia Buys Plazes (Wireless and Mobile News)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:07:45 GMT

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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Nokia Buys Symbian and Plazes to Build Google Android Rival (Dial-a-Phone)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:14 GMT

... deal for the company. As well as Symbian Nokia has also completed a takeover of German start-up Plazes which offers location-based social networking services across the globe. Users can manually geotag WiFi hotspots and then communicate with nearby friends or share location based experiences such as photos and videos online. According to the press release Nokia will be able to extend its...

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Nokia Acquires Symbian, Ready to Battle iPhone and Android (SEOCentro - SEO News)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:21:40 GMT

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...

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Nokia Acquires Symbian, Ready to Battle iPhone and Android (Marketing Pilgrim)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:03:14 GMT

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 [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 6/24/08 (MarketingVOX)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:17:11 GMT

Biz Buzz: Mobile firm Nokia bought Plazes, which lets people show others where they are and plan to be. Nokia plans to integrate Plazes in its mobile devices. Movie ticket service Fandango.com...

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Plazes becomes part of Nokia (merinews - citizen powered media)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:47:21 GMT

To achieve new growth as the cellphone business is set to mature in coming years Nokia has started to invest heavily in building up its presence in Internet service. It also stated that it will be producing dozens of such handsets by this yearÂ's end.

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Nokia getting serious with Open Source Symbian (Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:53:01 GMT

What a day. First Nokia bought Plazes (Congrats!) and now they offer to buy the remaining 52% of Symbian and have launched the Symbian Foundation, which will drive the open sourcing of Symbian over the next 2 years. Of course the Symbian Foundation has wide adoption, same as the Open Handset Alliance around Android, but [...]

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