{"id":1435,"date":"2007-12-14T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/microsoft-acquires-multimap\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T11:56:28","slug":"microsoft-acquires-multimap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/microsoft-acquires-multimap\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Acquires MultiMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multimap.com\/press\/press_releases\/pr185_microsoft\/\">has acquired<\/a> Multimap, one of the United Kingdom&#8217;s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world. The acquisition will hopefuly\u00a0give Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services, MSN and the aQuantive advertising platform, with future integration potential for a range of other Microsoft products and platforms, leading the way to new hights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The addition of Multimap enhances Microsoft&#8217;s position as a leading provider of mapping and location platform services, said Sharon Baylay, general manager of the Online Services Group at Microsoft. This acquisition will play a significant role in the future growth of our search business and presents a huge opportunity to expand our platform business beyond the U.K. and globally. We are thrilled to welcome Multimap onboard.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best-known online mapping companies worldwide, Multimap provides a publicly available personal mapping service at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multimap.com\/\">http:\/\/www.multimap.com<\/a>, as well as a range of integrated business services.<\/p>\n<p>Partnering with Microsoft gives us a world of new opportunities to build our mapping services into new technologies and applications, said Jeff Kelisky, CEO of Multimap. As one of the world&#8217;s foremost technology brands, Microsoft is in a position to bring even more value to the Multimap service and give people everywhere new, exciting and fun ways to get from point A to point B.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has acquired Multimap, one of the United Kingdom&#8217;s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world. The acquisition will hopefuly\u00a0give Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services, MSN and the aQuantive advertising platform, with future integration potential for<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/microsoft-acquires-multimap\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Acquires MultiMap&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}