Crowdsourced real-time traffic and navigation app Waze today announced a monetization partnership with IMS Internet Media Services, one of the leading digital media buyer in Latin America. "Waze is especially useful in the congested traffic of Latin...

Indoor mapping startup Micello today announced they have reached 15,000 venues in their database. This dataset represents 3.7 billion square feet, more than 50,000 individual building and 775,000 Points of interest (POI). Today this coverage is...

Venture Capital firm Mobility Ventures yesterday announced they joined a €500,000 ($ 650,000) seed round raised by IndoorAtlas, a Finnish startup company specializing in indoor geo-location. The startup was founded in 2012 as a spin-off from the...

Yesterday big geo-location data provider Factual announced a partnership with mobile advertising network Millennial Media. The ad network has integrated Factual’s Global Places data and the just released Geopulse Context API (Application Programming...

PlaceIQ announced today Place Visit Rate (PVR), a new mobile advertising success metric for retailers. PVR is defined as “the ratio of people who viewed mobile ads for a physical retailer and subsequently were observed in that store.“ Duncan McCall,...

Neustar Localeze and 15miles, helped by Comscore have published today the Sixth Annual comScore Local Search Usage Study that gives a wealth of details about the state of the customer usage in terms of local search. It also shows the winners and...

GPS Business News recently interviewed with JiWire President David Staas as we wanted to learn more about their Location Graph, an audience profiling system that works based on the location history of mobile devices. GPS Business News: What is the...

According to the Wall Street Journal, later confirmed by Apple itself, indoor location technology start-up WIFISLAM has been acquired by the Cupertino company. The price of the transaction is rumored to be in the range of $20 million. WIFISLAM was...

GPS Business News recently met with Fraser Campbell, CEO at Wcities, a company that provides rich, geo-located data to the travel, mobile and automotive industry. GPS Business News: Wcities has been around for more than a decade if I am correct. How...

Russian web giant Yandex has see a continuous growth of their map services in Turkey. According to comScore, Yandex.Maps (or Yandex.Haritalar in Turkish) web service has been visited by more than 1.6 million unique users in January 2013 - as an...

Telmap Navigator is now offering coupons and vouchers from local merchants in South Africa. The mobile search and navigation subsidiary of Intel has partnered with Mobilitrix, South Africa’s leading multi-channel aggregator of mobile vouchers and...