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Vicinity Corporation is a provider of enterprise location services to Global 2000 companies across Web, wireless and speech platforms, enabling businesses, governments and agencies to market the local availability of their products and services. The Company unifies and enriches Web, wireless and speech inquiries in order to catalyze a fundamental improvement in the customer experience. The Company turns location information into a coherent, rich source of knowledge and embeds location intelligence into the fabric of the organization. The Company's suite of private-label and co-branded content and services includes the Vicinity Location Server, along with a comprehensive portfolio of application services and application programming interfaces for embedding location intelligence deep within existing enterprise applications. In December 2002, the Company was sold to Microsoft Corporation, a provider of software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing..(Source: 10-K)