Dutch mapping company TomTom explains why it's betting on Microsoft's cloud (MSFT, TOM2)

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Microsoft and Dutch mapping company TomTom announced Monday that they will expand their partnership.




TomTom will become Microsoft Azure's leading location data provider, and TomTom is choosing Azure as its preferred cloud.




TomTom and Microsoft had already been partners for a year and a half.



For Dutch mapping company TomTom, Microsoft Azure is its top pick for cloud.
Microsoft and TomTom announced Monday that they're expanding their partnership. TomTom will become Microsoft's leading location data provider for Microsoft Azure, putting TomTom's maps and traffic data onto Microsoft's cloud. and bringing its tech to Microsoft's Bing Maps as it strives to catch up to Google Maps. Meanwhile, TomTom is picking Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud provider.
They've already been partners for a year and a half, and TomTom says it wanted to round it out.