{"id":56833,"date":"2014-05-05T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T09:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=56833"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T09:06:56","slug":"nokia-invests-in-connected-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56833\/nokia-invests-in-connected-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia invests in connected cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish mobile communications equipment maker Nokia on Monday said it had started a $100 million fund to invest in companies working on connecting cars.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will be run by the company&#8217;s venture capital arm Nokia Growth Partners and will cooperate with Nokia&#8217;s location unit HERE, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our new $100 million venture fund launched today further underlines our belief that the connected car is a significant growth opportunity,&#8221; Nokia Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on cars<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cars are the next ground for communication: GM\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39991\/cars-are-the-next-ground-for-communication-gm\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cars are the next ground for communication: GM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Electric car incentives for SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/37047\/electric-car-incentives-for-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Electric car incentives for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Petrol price: good news for motorists\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/36710\/petrol-price-good-news-for-motorists\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Petrol price: good news for motorists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Petrol set for massive hike\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/32659\/petrol-set-for-massive-hike\/\">Petrol set for massive hike<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish mobile communications equipment maker Nokia on Monday said it had started a $100 million fund to invest in companies working on connecting cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,6066,187],"class_list":["post-56833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-connected-cars","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56835,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833\/revisions\/56835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}