Geosim's 3D-city models enable:

Integration with tourist attractions and information kiosks.
Virtual tours for trip planning and familiarization with places of interests; customized multimedia and interactive solutions.
E-commerce compatability for booking rooms, dinner reservations, purchasing theater tickets and more.
Integration with custom 3D indoor models for tourism related locations (such as museums, hotels, restaurants etc.).

does sound like what yahoo are chasing or is it MSN

MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth

Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The service is promised to provide:

Satellite images with 45-degree-angle views of buildings and neighborhoods

Satellite images with street map overlays

Ability to add local data layers, such as showing local businesses or restaurants
The service will allow users to choose from a number of different data types plus allow people to contribute their own information. The announcement came today at the D3 conference happening this week.

Here are some screenshots from the service to come. You can click on the first to make it larger:


http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208

brainspark website still down, thats an extremly good sign

and Google have announced they are shopping for companies.. they have 7billion to spend

12mins to go

for what 12 o clock,or for lift off .i like your comments.

Armistice silence. Lest we forget.

brainspark website is down... strange... is it today we get news or what

Francesco Gardin, Brainspark PLC 0039 0228 0141


Called the above number in Italy. Mr Gardin was not present, he may be present in an hour. I will be in a meeting so maybe someone could call him to find out what is going on!!

i.e. news is out when the USA market opens today..

this could turn out to be a very good weekend

anyone tried ringing the company, they wont accept calls from shareholders, and there website is down...

Interesting

http://www.skylinesoft.com/corporate/corporate_home.asp

just go to this link... download the software, and tell me its not a new version of google earth... and by the way... look on the screen it says geosim


when you aproach a 3d building, click on it and it takes you to that buildings website, for example a hotel or shop.....

or a football stadium... think how much money google will make if people use this to book tickets, basically for anything...

so how much money will we get for Geosim... I am thinking QXL

Doctor tops the stockpickers


A doctor who only trades shares in his own portfolio every few months, this week won Investa-Quest, a competition run by the London Stock Exchange and Barclays Stockbrokers to find the countrys best stockpicker.


Michael Langton from West Yorkshire beat 100 investors nationwide by turning a fantasy shares portfolio of 50,000 into 127,749 in just one month.

Taking a much riskier approach to stockpicking than he would for his real life holdings, Langton, used all 20 trades available to him during the final to make gains of 155.5 per cent on his fantasy portfolio of 50,000.

I didnt have a set list of companies that I wanted to invest in. I just chose cheap, relatively unknown companies that I thought would rise in value over the short term, he says. I bought a lot of penny shares in specialist areas such as energy and consumer debt. He chose some renewable energy companies such as Alkane Energy and Biofuels, because he has an interest in that area already. I kept hearing the news about rising oil prices and the shortage of supply of energy so decided to invest in alternative energy companies, he says. And it seems to have paid off.

He also invested in small companies Brainspark and Telecom Plus as well as some of the bigger FTSE 100 companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Prudential.

The London Stock Exchange laid down the challenge in January to find Britains most successful private investors. While investors did not benefit financially from their picks, 10 winners from each region competed for a 40,000 national prize.

but this is the best one of them all

Google - Brokekid.net
In this case, the morning of June 29, the page flickers and, bam, Google has ...
Were working with GeoSim Systems out of Israel ( Link ) to create a 3D ...
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Geosim is owned by BSP and its being sold off well 50.1%... and google need 3D buildings for google earth, the deal is about to be signed

http://www.wedbush.com/inside/InvestmentBanking/Technology.asp

I think this is our private equity firm... again per what maestro posted, linked with google ;-)

WEDBUSH is a leading financial services and investment firm that, through its holdings, provides private and institutional brokerage, investment banking, private capital, research, and asset management to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Founded in 1955, the firm's largest holding, Wedbush Morgan Securities, is one of the largest full-service investment banking and brokerage firms headquartered in the western United States. WEDBUSH's second institutional fund, Wedbush Capital Partners, invests in and buys profitable and growing, lower middle-market companies primarily headquartered in the Western United States.


http://www.wedbushinc.com/

WEDBUSH
WEDBUSH is a private equity and investment firm that provides capital and management
assistance to talented entrepreneurs and executives to build great ...
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read page 45 of shares mag

;-)

GOING ALL GOOGLY OVER BRAINSPARK
thats the title

Which Sharesmag statement is correct:

September 05
i. the stake could have gone for a higher
price but did not because Brainspark had failed to
appreciate the full value of Geosim or

November 05
ii Once the identity of the mystery
buyer is revealed and it is unlikely that either Microsoft or Google will
come in for it, especially at this stage the share price is likely to drop
back to pre-bid levels. ?


err I think someone has asked share mag to terrify some holders out of there shares... november issue has full of mistakes, its says google have 3d landscape company Keyhole so wont need Geosim, problem is Geosim dont do 3D landscape, they do 3D cities which google desperately need... it also say google are not interested in making any aquisitions... thats wrong also, there is an article about google wishing to spend $7bil on making aquisitions. the article also said the price may drop to prebid levels once the announcement comes out, who ever wrote that article clearly knows nothing about Geosim and did not do his research correctly, the august RNS states we will get more than $10mil for geosim... Good try Sharemag... but you made yourselves look stupid, you have now contridicted yourselves re the september issue, maybe Google wont get geosim, maybe not microsoft, but maybe its Yahoo or AOL. anyway shares are about risk reward... personally if there is any selling I will just top up more on the cheap, as we know Geosim is going for more than 10mil ;-), and ACS is to be announced and also easyart is intending to go on the AIM...