GPS Business News interviewed with Marc Prioleau, Principal at Prioleau Advisors, a Palo Alto, California-based consultancy firm providing strategic and M&A advisory services for the location market.
In this 20 minutes exclusive podcast Prioleau explained the key trend he is seeing on the location-based services market; from a map and navigation-driven industry, the location business has redefined itself around the concept of "places", a central piece for companies such as Facebook, Twitter and a range of "check-in" start-up.
In this 20 minutes exclusive podcast Prioleau explained the key trend he is seeing on the location-based services market; from a map and navigation-driven industry, the location business has redefined itself around the concept of "places", a central piece for companies such as Facebook, Twitter and a range of "check-in" start-up.
Prioleau is then pointing out some of the consequences affecting participants in the value chain: platform providers and map makers.
At the end of the podcast Prioleau is also providing some thoughts on what had been the M&A landscape in 2010 and what we could expect for 2011.
At the end of the podcast Prioleau is also providing some thoughts on what had been the M&A landscape in 2010 and what we could expect for 2011.




















