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"The
carmakers want to open the circle of shareholders. We are
talking to dozens of parties interested in taking a stake,"
daily Handelsblatt quoted Overbeek as saying in an interview
published on Tuesday.
Germany's luxury automotive groups including Daimler's
Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen's Audi division and BMW bought HERE
for 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) from Nokia last year to
create an alternative digital mapping business to Google.
Daimler confirmed in April it was in talks with Amazon.com and
Microsoft about taking a minority stake in HERE. Auto supplier
Bosch [ROBG.UL] has also said it was in talks with HERE.
"It is important to find the right mixture of owners... Partners
from the IT sector, from logistics or retail are possible,"
Overbeek said, according to the newspaper, without naming any
possible investors.
Intelligent mapping systems supply information to control
self-driving cars, which are equipped with street-scanning
sensors to measure traffic and road conditions. This location
data can in turn be shared with other map users.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan, editing by Louise Heavens)
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