Monday, June 29, 2015

Uber Snags Mapping Technology, Engineers From Microsoft

San Francisco-based Uber is reportedly buying up a number of mapping related technologies from Microsoft, and hiring around 100 engineers to work on mapping software at the ridesharing company, according to reports Monday afternoon. Financial details of the deal had not yet been announced. The deal comes as Uber has been on a major push for mapping technology, having acquired Nokia's mapping service in May, and purchasing San Jose-based mapping technology developer Decarta back in March. The Microsoft engineers and technology were part of Microsoft's Bing search engine.