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

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...