If Microsoft Bought Nokia, What Would That Mean for NAVTEQ?

So there is some of that goofy year end speculation that always happens this time of the year, but it got me thinking.  What would happen to NAVTEQ if Microsoft did buy Nokia?

With location and mapping so important in 2011, wouldn’t Microsoft love to have NAVTEQ in their back pocket? And with NAVTEQ being a well placed government contractor, it would only enhance Microsoft’s battle against Google (and to a lesser extent in our space, Esri).

Bing Maps already uses NAVTEQ, Microsoft isn’t abandoning NAVTEQ even though it is a huge OSM supporter and Google already has their own map data. Seems like a good fit to me.

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