Last week GPS Business News met with Ankit Agarwal, the CEO of Micello, an indoor map provider based in Sunnyvale, California. The start-up has focussed on indoor maps for nearly 5 years. It now provides maps for 15,000 venues in 30 countries. He...

Malaysian wireless operator Maxis has launched a local deal service using geo-targeted text messages. Maxis’ location-based advertising service is now available in over 15 participating shopping destinations (mostly popular malls). By year end, the...

On June 6, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued an order enabling NextNav to begin commercial operation of its advanced positioning network, which is designed to support 9-1-1 emergency first responders. NextNav's terrestrial...

Marc Prioleau, who runs Prioleau Advisors, a boutique consulting firm specialized in location-based services, provided its thoughts about the acquisition of Waze by Google to GPS Business News. Watch the video below filmed in front of Waze offices...

French indoor location technology provider Pole Star has announced two new customers this week: the Nantes (Western France) Atlantis Shopping Center and the Paris Air Show. Nantes Atlantis is the first shopping center to deploy an indoor location...

French start-up Fidzup has announced last week to have raised €300,000 in a seeding round of funding from several business angel networks: IT Angels, Val’Angels, and Dauphine Angels as well as French public investors. Fidzup targets shopping malls...

Madison, Wisconsin-based SOLOMO Technologies today announced they have completed a Series A round of funding worth $1.7M to expand their indoor location analytics platform for retailers. The round was co-led by Venture Management, LLC and Don...

Swedish mobile location-based services developer Appello today announced they are powering a new LBS service launched by Mobily, a leading wireless operator (22 million subscribers) in Saudi Arabia. Amaken is a mapping, direction and local search...

Enterprise Wi-Fi network vendor Aruba has acquired Meridian, a U.S. Start-up that offers apps and an app making platform for indoor geo-location. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. “The addition of Meridian will enable...

The German wireless operator O2 Telefonica has launched this week a new service called O2 More Local that allows its subscribers to receive SMS or MMS with geo-targeted commercial deals. Customers can directly redeem the offers or vouchers while...

Yesterday at their I/O conference in the United States Google unveiled a new version of Google Maps which key new features are to provide a more personalized experience and to display the map on a larger portion of the screen plus a number of...