Question

Which technology company has acquired the Swedish mapping technology company, ‘Mapillary’? Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft

Answer 1

Facebook has acquired the Swedish mapping technology company, ‘Mapillary’

Extra Information:

Facebook =>

1. Facebook Inc. was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in the year 2004.

2. It is an American social media conglomerate corporation.

3. Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

4. Facebook is very popular global social networking website who has acquired many other companies such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and Giphy

Mapillary =>

1. Mapillary was released in the year 2013 and was developed by remote company Mapillary AB which is in Malmö, Sweden.

2. Mapillary provides service for sharing crowdsourced geotagged photos.

3. Co-founders of Mapillary were Jan Erik Solem, Johan Gyllenspetz, Peter Neubauer and Yubin Kuang.

4. Mapillary helps us to capture different modes such as walking, standing etc. and this service is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS.

5. Mapillary is a type of Web mapping.

Answer 2

Facebook has acquired the Swedish mapping technology company, ‘Mapillary’.

• Facebook is a social networking service company which is located in California, United States.
• This social networking service was launched on February 4th in 2004 by "Mark Zuckerberg" along with his Harvard college students.
• Mapillary is a type of web mapping that was released initially in 2013. The co-founders of this company were Jan Erik Solem, Johan Gyllenspetz, Peter Neubauer, and Yubin Kuang.
• Chief Executive Officer of Mapillary said that his company's technology would be used for Facebook.
• Facebook has announced that it has acquired Swedish mapping technology company Mapillary.