BMW i ventures, the new venture arm of the German car manufacturer on Friday announced the appointment of Edward Robinson, a 32 years BMW Group veteran, as President as well as the planned launch of an incubator and the establishment of an advisory...

Carlo des Dorides was officially appointed as the new executive director of the European GNSS Agency (formerly known as GNSS Supervisory - GSA), starting on February, 1st, 2011. Carlo des Dorides, an Italian national, spent almost seven years...

Mark Gretton, who was one of the top engineers at TomTom has left the company last month to take the role of CTO at Crave Interactive, a UK-based start-up company incorporated in September 2009 that provides Interactive ordering solutions for...

General Motors has appointed Linda Marshall as new president of OnStar, effective February 1, 2011, said the carmaker in a statement yesterday. Marshall succeeds Christopher Preuss, who is launching a communications consultancy practice....

MapQuest revealed this week the recruitment of Patrick McDevitt, named vice president of engineering. McDevitt joins MapQuest following his tenure with TomTom/Tele Atlas where he served as the vice president of community mapping. McDevitt...

Serge Bussat, currently vice president sales and marketing wireless and consumer for EMEA at NAVTEQ, will join the speedcam warning manufacturer Coyote System as of early January 2011. He will be in charge of Coyote international markets outside...

Last year Doug Antone, CEO of Networks In Motion (NIM) sold his company to Telecom Systems for $170 million, the largest acquisition in the LBS arena since the sale of NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas. Since then he has been heading the navigation and...

Steve Coast, who founded a few years ago the now 320,000 volunteers strong OpenStreetMap (OSM) project, just moved from Cloudmade to Microsoft, to become Principal Architect for Bing Mobile. This recruitment is part of a Microsoft initiative...

Location based media company Where, Inc. this week announced the appointment of Scott Hendrickson as Vice President of Advertising Sales. Most recently, Hendrickson served as a publishing and business development executive at Sports Illustrated,...

Location-based social start-up Loopt recruited Steve Boom, a seasoned mobile and Internet industry executive as President.“Steve is a tremendous addition to the Loopt management team, enabling us to capitalize on the exciting opportunities available...

Jeff Jordan, president and CEO of OpenTable, has joined the board of directors at Booyah, the maker of location-based mobile entertainment app MyTown. "The combination of Jeff's expertise in the real-world local space and his past experiences...