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Mayr, Garmin: “NAVIGON Telecom Select Coming to Orange UK“

02/27/2012
On the heels of an impressive fourth quarter 2011, today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Garmin announced several products and partnerships announcements. GPS Business News spoke with Gerhard Mayr, vice president worldwide mobile business. Among other topics he explained the new...

Coyote Partners with Garmin, Intros Service in 12 New Countries

02/26/2012
Speedcam warning vendor Coyote System has announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a strategic partnership with Garmin and the release of its iPhone app iCoyote in 12 new additional countries.The partnership with Garmin is related to the co-development of a mobile application that...

Former NAVIGON CEO Leaves Garmin

01/30/2012
As a result of Garmin’s acquisition of NAVIGON last summer, Egon Minar, the former CEO of NAVIGON, has left the company and has been replaced by Johannes Angenvoort, who was previously Executive Vice President of Development and who were at NAVIGON for 14 years. In addition, NAVIGON GmbH has...

NAVIGON Launches Nav App for WP7 (Mango) Smartphones

10/11/2011
Garmin subsidiary NAVIGON today has introduced a new navigation appliction for the latest version of Windows Phone 7 code-named Mango. NAVIGON’s app is available for Windows Phone 7.5 users and takes advantage of new features made available to developers with this new release such as the...

Disappointing Navi for New Volkswagen Up!

09/14/2011
At the Frankfurt Motor Show this week Volkswagen is unveiling its new city car, the Volkswagen Up! that is fitted with a disappointing NAVIGON semi integrated PND. The device fits on the dashboard with a craddle and offers, beyond navigation three menus to manage your phone, your music and...

Volkswagen Up with NAVIGON Semi integrated Nav

09/02/2011
Over the last weeks additional information has emerged about the partnership between Volkswagen and German navigation provider NAVIGON. The new Garmin subsidiary will provide the navigation unit for the upcoming Volkswagen Up city car. The navigation unit will be offers to customers as an...

IFA: Garmin-Navigon, the Start of a New Euro PND Power Player?

09/01/2011
Today Garmin and its newly acquired subsidiary NAVIGON have hosted a press conference at the IFA trade show in Brelin. At this stage the companies have presented together their products but the portfolio, which was designed months before the acquisition was obviously separated with a range...

Garmin Completes NAVIGON Acquisition

07/26/2011
Garmin announced today that it has completed the acquisition of German navigation provider NAVIGON. On July 15, 2011, the German Federal antitrust authority gave its antitrust clearance. Thus far no precise plan has been publicly revealed about the integration of the acquired company.

Podcast: Reflexions on M&A in the Location Market

07/05/2011
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 the most interesting financial transactions that...

NAVIGON to Supply Low-Cost in-Dash Nav to VW

06/20/2011
On the sideline of the Navigation Strategies conference in Berlin last week, GPS Business News had the confirmation by well informed industry sources that Volkswagen is the car maker that will get the low cost in-dash navigation unit currently developed by NAVIGON. The German navigation...

Podcast with Roger Jollis, Garmin, about NAVIGON Acquisition

06/16/2011
Roger Jollis, responsible for the automotive OEM factory fitted and accessories business at Garmin spoke today with GPS Business News at the Navigation Strategies conference in Berlin. It was the opportunity to learn more about the freshly announced acquisition of NAVIGON by Garmin. Jollis...

Garmin Acquisition of NAVIGON Confirmed

06/14/2011
Garmin today announced the acquisition of NAVIGON, confirming earlier rumors and a leak to the Financial Times Deutschland. Navigon will operate as a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the...

Navigon to Sell OpenStreetMap POIs Packages for PNDs

06/14/2011
Navigation software developer Navigon has unveiled a dataset of approximately 2.2 million extra points of interest (POIs) for car drivers to download onto their personal navigation devices (PND). Six destinations packages provide users of Navigon PNDs with...

Navigon: Exclusive Talks for Sale to Garmin?

06/06/2011
According to German daily newspaper Financial Times Deutschland, Garmin has entered into exclusive talks to buy German navigation software supplier Navigon. The price is estimated around €50 million, wrote the newpaper according to a source involved with the deal. The sale could happen in June....

NAVIGON Prepping in-Dash Low Cost Head Unit

05/16/2011
NAVIGON is a company well known for its mobile navigation solutions for handsets and Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) but less for its in-dash expertise. The company has been however active in this field for many years. Nowadays one of its key focus in this area is low cost in-dash navigation....

NAVIGON Debuts on Android Honeycomb

05/13/2011
Mobile navigation provider NAVIGON yesterday announced a free update for its Android navigation app, MobileNavigator. The app is now compatible with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the new Google operating system dedicated to tablets, and introduces features already available to the iPhone platform: live...

NAVIGON Offers Optional US Safety Cam in New iPhone App

04/14/2011
Mobile navigation provider NAVIGON announced today a new version of its turn-by-turn navigation application (version 1.8) for the iPhone that features an optional safety camera database for the United States as well as an augmented reality view for local search of POIs. The safety cam...

Podcast with Gerhard Mayr, Navigon's vice-president of world-wide mobile phone business and new markets

02/14/2011
MWC 2011: Navigon has outperformed the market and seen user growth of 227% for its Mobile Navigator app across various mobile platforms. Gerhard Mayr, vice-president of world-wide mobile phone business and new markets at Navigon, tells GPS Business News about what is driving this growth,...

2m App Users for NAVIGON

02/10/2011
Mobile navigation provider NAVIGON today announced it has now over two million smartphone navigation app users worldwide. NAVIGON MobileNavigator is available for Android smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and Windows Mobile smartphones. NAVIGON had announced one million iPhone...

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...


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