Uber Acquires Part Of Bing’s Mapping Assets, Will Absorb Around 100 Microsoft Employees
June 29, 2015 at 14:30 PM EDT
Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work. The companies confirmed the transaction with TechCrunch, but each declined to name the terms of the agreement. The excision of a slice of opex from Bing… Read More
