In the last couple of weeks I received several emails from Telematics Update - the organizers of the once yearly, now monthly telematics conferences - which wanted to sell me the “Telematics Connectivity Strategies Report 2013,“ a 90 pages reports...

Last week Apple posted on its career website seven jobs of “Maps Ground Truth managers“; one on each continent with the mission to manage a regional team responsible for the quality of the local Apple map. According to Apple’s post: “each Team’s...

A persisting rumor in the LBS industry is the “possible“ acquisition of TomTom by Apple as if the ownership of map data would represent a competitive advantage per se. In the following article we comprehensively investigate the map data business and how map data ownership did not bring a competitive advantage to TomTom and Nokia in the last five years.

In this article, Michael Dobson, President of TeleMapics gives his opinion about the problem faced by Apple in entering the mapping business.

ESRI this week announced the acquisition of Portland-based LBS start-up Geoloqi. Geoloqi is a 7 people start-up that was born in 2010 with the intent to make life easier to developers willing to add LBS features to their app. Geoloqi raised about...

Three weeks ago, digital map maker NAVTEQ, now completely integrated into Nokia’s Location and Commerce division, held its annual European customer event, “Directions 2012“. The well attended event that gathered several hundred people was...

In the last 12 months a number of automakers have announced and sometimes already launched new in vehicle infotainment systems that feature their own, built-in app stores. It sounded great and innovative at first sight, but the more I looked at it...

On the heels of U.S. consumer electronics (CE) store Best Buy announcing the closure of 42 of its stores, market research firm Canalys predicts that many more consumer electronics retailers will follow in the footsteps of Surcouf, Best Buy Europe,...

The hottest topic for the automotive infotainment industry is connectivity in the car. Recent years have seen a flurry of vehicle manufacturers releasing connected services, and it seems clear this trend will continue. However, one key...

In this podcast GPS Business News spoke with Marc Prioleau, founder of Prioleau Advisors, a strategic consultancy and M&A boutique focusing on the location market. In this first installment of a Location M&A Podcast Series, he shared his thoughts on...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a conference in Berlin named “Navigation Strategies Europe”. Having over 100 industry leaders in one room, brought up some very interesting discussion on the future of In Car Navigation. Hearing the Car Industry...