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ALK’s CoPilot Includes 1 Year Free Live Traffic with Navigation App (UPDATED)

04/25/2012
Mobile navigation provider ALK technologies today announced that its navigation app for iOS and Android, CoPilot Live Premium, will now include 12 months free access to real-time traffic. Previously a €9.99 additional annual subscription, the traffic service supplied by Nokia Location &...

Inrix Appoints Andreas Hecht as VP-GM Automotive

04/11/2012
Traffic information provider Inrix today announced the appointment of Andreas Hecht as vice president and general manager Automotive. Previously, Hecht was the Co-Founder and General Partner at Spot It Out – a LBS provider of travel guide information for mobile apps and GPS-enabled devices. Before...

Inrix Moving Closer to an IPO?

04/10/2012
According to news from Bloomberg, traffic information provider Inrix is looking for an initial public offering that could raise $75 million to $100 million by offering 10 percent to 15 percent of Inrix shares through underwriters. CEO Bryan Mistele is talking with banks, looking for a transaction...

TomTom Claims HD Traffic Outperfoms Competitors: Study Methodology Under Question

03/27/2012
TomTom today at the Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam published the result of a study from the German Aerospace Center that, according to the GPS maker, demonstrates TomTom’s HD traffic superiority against the competition. The methodology used is however mixing results from traffic feed and...

Aha (HARMAN) Target Western Europe with In-car Infotainment Service

03/06/2012
Aha, a business unit of in-car infotainment vendor HARMAN, announced today at the Geneva Motor Show the beginning of its services in Western Europe by the end of the year. Aha provides web content under a radio format suitable for in car consumption without distracting the driver.Traffic provider...

Toyota Launches (ITIS/Inrix) Traffic over DAB Radio in the UK

02/20/2012
Last week Toyota announced to be the first car manufacturer in the UK to provide TPEG traffic information service using DAB technology (digital radio). The service is provided by INRIX (formerly known as ITIS).DAB is five time faster than its analogue counterpart, RDS TMC that use the FM radio...

Mapquest Embeds Road Traffic Cameras in U.S. Map

02/06/2012
MapQuest last week announced it integrated traffic and road condition cameras into their maps and directions in over 100 U.S. markets, featuring more than 11,000 cameras. These camera feeds are coming from traffic provider INRIX which distributes the service from traffic camera aggregator Vizzion....

Interview with Hans-Hendrik Puvogel, INRIX

10/20/2011
GPS Business News interviewed with Hans-Hendrik Puvogel, European General Manager for INRIX. In this discussion we focused on the most recent news on the rea-time traffic informtion market: their acquisition of ITIS Holdings for £37 million, the recently announced agreement with Google and...

Google Selects INRIX Traffic for EU Navigation & Mapping Apps

09/27/2011
Google has selected INRIX’s Real-time Traffic to help power its navigation and mapping applications, we learned today. The service is initially available in 8 countries across Europe, including the U.K. and Germany with plans to roll out into addition markets by the end of the year. INRIX...

INRIX Makes $60m Offer for ITIS Holdings

07/28/2011
Traffic information supplier INRIX today announced a $60 million offer (￡37 million) for the acquisition of its competitor, British ITIS Holdings plc. Upon approval by ITIS shareholders, the deal is expected to close in late August 2011, said INRIX. the Seattle company announced earlier this week a...

INRIX Raised $37m

07/25/2011
Seattle-based traffic information provider INRIX, today announced an impressive $37 million Series D round of funding led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers’ (KPCB) Green Growth Fund and August Capital. This funding will be used for acquisition, global growth and R&D, said the...

Real Time Traffic: “The Big Revolution is Two-Way Traffic Data”

05/02/2011
INTERVIEW: The world of real time traffic data is increasingly fluid. To get an overview of the market GPS Business News spoke to Roger Lanctot, senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, about the emergence of more efficient data delivery methods, two-way traffic data, the leveraging of Bluetooth...

INRIX Partners with Viasuisse and Infoblu

03/31/2011
Real-time traffic provider INRIX is announcing today two partnerships with local traffic providers ViaSuisse (Switzerland) and Infoblu (Italy). The company has also announced another partnership with Italian mobile services provider Targa. These partnerships will enable INRIX to strengthen...

NAVIGON Adds Traffic for 87K Miles of US Secondary Roads in App

01/27/2011
At the MacWorld Expo today in San Francisco, Mobile navigation provider NAVIGON announced an upgrade to its Traffic Live feature for its iPhone and Android navigation app. NAVIGON now uses a more comprehensive traffic feed of traffic provider INRIX, which increases road coverage by 76...

Bryan Mistele, INRIX: "We Will Bring New Services Live in Asia, LatAm and Elsewhere"

01/24/2011
Real-time traffic provider INRIX is unveiling today a new partnership with Audi AG. GPS Business News spoke with INRIX CEO Bryan Mistele about his new OEM and upcoming developments for the traffic data provider. Listen to the audio podcast below:

INRIX XD Traffic Selected by Audi for Connected Nav

01/24/2011
At a launch event today in Italy for the 2011 Audi A6, the German car maker is unveiling a new breed of connected navigation system that uses real-time traffic data from INRIX. The car will start shipping in the second quarter of 2011 in a number of European countries and the service will be part...

Toyota Selects INRIX Real-Time Traffic for New Entune Head Unit

01/04/2011
INRIX today announced that Toyota will use its real-time traffic information to fuel the automaker's new Entune multimedia system on select audio head units in the United States. Via Bluetooth Toyota Entune leverages the customer's mobile phone connectivity to access INRIX's real-time...

Bryan Mistele, INRIX: “lifetime traffic subscription is going to be a standard way”

03/19/2008
Traffic information provider INRIX has announced this morning an important contract with MapQuest (read our news). GPS Business News seized the opportunity to talk to its CEO, Bryan Mistele, to get an update about the company and the rise of traffic information among navigation systems in the...


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