For about a month now, Nokia has been spinning its wheels — trying to unload its Here Maps business. But this week, Nokia’s plodding Norse saga has become a bit more interesting. Reports suggest Uber — the crowd-sourced cab company — just tendered an uber-sized bid for Nokia’s mapping wunderkind.

Is Uber’s bid high enough to force competing bids — including one from a convoy of German automakers — off the twisty road to Here ownership? Or will the Germans put the pedal to the metal — upping their ante for Here — driving ever faster on the Autobahn towards Finland?

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