Vodafone to Acquire LBS Developer Wayfinder

Update:GPS Business News offers analysis.

—original post 12/9/08 —-
Here’s the full 10 page story (pdf).

Here’s the short story:Wayfinder,a Swedish company,makes mobile applications that use GPS functionality. Vodafone will pay ?24 million to get essentially an in-house LBS application development team. Wayfinder offers a mapping app called Navigator,a fitness app called Active,and a database of POI’s,Wikipedia Earth. They all work across Symbian and Windows Mobile.

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