This week Panasonic and Nikon have both announced new digital cameras featuring built-in GPS capabilities. Panasonic has announced the LUMIX ZS20 ($350), a slim Digital Camera with a 20x optical zoom lens. Map data can be installed...

Safely, a division of Location Labs, today announced that its premium Safely Family Locator has enabled more than one billion family safety location checks since inception. “These “locates” have been initiated by Family Locator subscribers across...

Thanks to a partnership between Google and thetrainline.com, British train travellers can now search for journeys across the country at maps.google.co.uk with more than 2,500 stations and 170,000 trips nationwide at their fingertips, in addition to...

Yandex, the leading Russian internet portal and search engine, has selected NAVTEQ map data to power Yandex.Maps outside of Russia. "Our association with NAVTEQ, the leading map content provider, will help us take Yandex.Maps to the level of...

Chinese map maker and LBS provider AutoNavi today announced that their mobile mapping application AMAP is now totalling 40 million users and growing at a fast pace of 4 million additional users per month, up from 26 million users at the end of the...

Many companies are trying to close the loop between smartphones and brick and mortar stores, but Palo Alto-based shopkick is particularly interesting at that level and some statistics unveiled by the company today are demonstrating that....

At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week Audiovox Electronics Corp. unveiled three new products that offer GPS tracking and monitoring to three specific segments: cars, pets and aging people with Alzheimer disease. Car Connection' is a...

TomTom today announced the signature of a content deal with Samsung whereby TomTom maps and location content will power the Wave3 smartphone. the content covered by this contract includes map coverage for over 200 countries, Points of...

AdMoove is a geo-targeted mobile advertising network based in France and founded in 2010. GPS Business News interviewed with Jérôme Léger, CEO of the start-up company who gave us a detailed insight into his business. GPS Business News: What is your...

Portuguese Multimedia company toGuide, which specializes in GPS-enabled audio guides, has announced several new contracts. The company secured a contract in a competitive bid to supply audio and multimedia tours through its toGuide Xperience...

Two weeks ago Google publicly launched indoor maps and indoor location for its Android operating system. Still in beta and limited to a few hundred locations in the United States and Japan, the system offers a map that pinpoints details inside...

Los Angeles-based start-up Factual has reached 55 million places in its database that now covers 47 countries said the company in a blog post today. Interestingly these 55 million Points of Interest can be queried via a single API to make...