Moving ahead: BMW, Audi and Mercedes' collective bid to buy Nokia's mapping service HERE has been granted US antitrust approval.
FRANKFURT: Digital mapping company HERE, which was bought by BMW Mercedes-Benz and Audi, has appointed Edzard Overbeek as chief executive to help Germany's luxury carmakers develop self-driving vehicles.
German carmakers clubbed together last year to buy HERE from Nokia for €2.5bil (RM11.52bil), shaking up the pecking order between carmakers, their parts suppliers and software rivals such as Uber, Google or Apple.
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