Not sure if this is the place to post this, "GPS news" or GPS free talk" are possibly better places. Or not, as the most important word in this post is "rumor", not "news".

That said, rumors are very strong that TomTom is trying to sell the company.
Decreasing sales of gps devices could be the reason for this, decreasing profits year after year are facts.

Asian market seems to be most interested in TomTom as they are lacking mapmakers. On the other hand, TomTom map division could be very important for the self-driving-car developers and therefor very much worth the money (1.7 billion Euro). AFAIK, this is not a Asian thing, so European or American buyers might be interested as well.

And the latter may be supported by politics as some countries (esp. USA) are strongly opposed to selling to e.g. Chinese firms as with the TT map division, national security could be vulnerable when "enemy states" get hold on it.

To be continued.