Microsoft and Amazon are in talks with Germany's premium carmakers about taking minority stakes in their HERE digital mapping service. BMW, Daimler and Audi agreed last year to pay €2.5B ($2.8B) for the Nokia business to build a platform for self-driving cars connected to the Internet. "We need a cloud provider to handle the huge amounts of data created by HERE and its users," said Thomas Weber, a Daimler board member. Well, Microsoft stocks would appreciate a boost from such news after trading flat for a really long time. If the shares break through 56.5 level, I'll go long)