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...

The last few days saw both Google confirming it will not be collecting any more pictures for its Street View service in Germany and Microsoft/NAVTEQ announcing the collection of street pictures across Europe. Google, which launched Street...

In a new report “Personal Navigation Devices: Making Money from a Declining Market,” IT market monitoring firm ABI Research forecasts a grim future for Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs). “Over-inflated shipments generated by ‘price wars’...

GPS Business News interviewed with Marc Prioleau, Principal at Prioleau Advisors, a Palo Alto, California-based consultancy firm providing strategic and M&A advisory services for the location market. In this 20 minutes exclusive podcast...

GPS Business News reached another milestone in January 2011 with 578,533 pages viewed, 72,265 visits and 26,165 unique visitors. The website also experienced its largest peak ever during the CES trade show in Las Vegas, counting over 39,000...

As the CES 2011 trade show came to an end, it is important to make sense of new trends affecting the consumer electronics industry and subsequently the GPS business itself. First of all it is interesting to see that consumer telematics has...

INTERVIEW: Study into quality of OpenStreetMap data finds much to applaud but stresses use-case crucial in whether to chose the free map over a commercial one. GPS Business News spoke to Dr Muki Haklay, of University College London, about his...

In a post on a Google Blog yesterday we learned that the search giant invited 60 of Google Map Maker’s top users in Africa to a community workshop in Nairobi. After a long blabla explaining that these people are citizen cartographers, the blog post...

Last week Facebook introduced “Deals”, a platform that allows local merchants and retailers to offer coupons to Facebook mobile users (in the U.S. thus far) who check-in at their locations. Wilson Kerr, founder and consultant at Location Based...

We hear they are a dying breed, slow, outdated, outsmarted by phones… still there is plenty of life left in the PND category and the next generation of connected PND will have what it takes to attract operators interests. Mobile operators are still...