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martinkallstrom on Oct 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 ...

The company is headquartered where I live, Linköping in Sweden with 150 000 people. They were spun off from fighter plane manufacturer Saab Aerospace which is also situated in Linköping. Saab owned 53% of the company and Apple paid around $250 millon.

EDIT: Here is a video from Saab showing the process of acquiring map data and it's military applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNemPTHOKWg

erikstarck on Oct 29, 2011 [–]

That must be why the second video is of "Oslo, Sweden". :)

Tjena, Martin, förresten. :)

JfromSw on Oct 29, 2011 | | [–]

I also figured that :) Kul att se fler Svenskar på HN!

kiiski on Oct 29, 2011 | | [–]

At least it says below it: "A fly-through over Oslo, Norway created by C3 Technologies".

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