U.S. Mobile-local ad network xAd reported yesterday a set of performance metrics for its network that delivered nearly 2 billion locally targeted search and display ads across mobile sites and applications in the first quarter of 2012.

The average click-through-rate for search campaigns was 8.13 percent (against 7% in 4Q 2011) and the secondar...

UK Wi-Fi provider Spectrum Interactive and location-based media company Selective Media have partnered to launch local deals on mobile devices that can be downloaded when accessing free Wi-Fi hotspots in the center of London.

The “FREE Street WiFi” network currently attracts around 25,000 unique users per month from 28 hotspots i...

Japanese tier one automotive supplier Fujitsu Ten has signed a joint-venture agreement with Indian auto components manufacturer Uno Minda to establish a manufacturing and sales organization to bring to market local car infotainment products.

“This JV is an attempt to tap into the growing segment of car infotainment products and bring innovativ...

Ptolemus Consulting Group, a boutique consulting firm focussing on the telematics and LBS markets, released last week a large report about the insurance telematics market.

According to this market research 2 to 2.5 million motor insurance policies are currently linked to telematics systems installed in cars.

The market forecast of the fir...

Open data platform Factual has released today a new API called Geopulse that provides attributes for a said location based on the type of business located around and census data.

“You pass us a latitude and longitude, and we return additional attributes, called 'pulses', about that location.  Pulses employ Factual’s network of signals...

Chinese map data and LBS provider AutoNavi today annoucned its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, posting net revenues of $35.7 million, an increase of 40.3% year-over-year.
 

The gross profit in the first quarter of 2012 was $26.9 million, an increase of 49.6% year-over-year and the perating income was $10.0 million, an increas...

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), the organization driving the MirrorLink standard that connects smartphone with dashboards, announced this week at the CTIA trade show in New Orleans it has surpassed the 50 member mark.

These members are currently representing 70 percent of automotive and 70 percent of smartphone markets worldwide with th...

Following on its roadmap for indoor location, Google today introduced a new version of Google Maps for Android that offers indoor walking directions for venues in the United States and Japan. This new feature is available to venues that have uploaded their floor plans to Google’s mapping portal.

Google also extended its Business Photos progra...

This week at the CTIA trde show in New Orleans, TeleCommunication Systems and cross operator location service provider LOCAID have announced a partnership to help wireless operators monetize their LBS infrastructure.

Through this partnership, Locaid’s aggregation solution integrates with TCS’ network location platforms enabling wireles...

Swedish market analyst firm Berg Insight today reported that the total value of the global real-time mobile location-based advertising and marketing (LBA) market will grow from €192 million in 2011 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 91 percent to €4.9 billion in 2016.

This will then correspond to 28.3 percent of all mobile advertisin...

Dutch GPS maker TomTom today introduced a new Personal Navigation Device (PND) that features a 6-inch touchscreen display.

The so-called Start 60 is available immediately and cost €200. 

Besides its large screen size the device is relatively basic in terms of feature, and mostly targets new PND owners, without the bell and whistles o...

GPS maker Magellan, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Mitac has updated its line up of GPS devices for the North American market this week.

The Magellan RoadMate family includes the following new models with prices ranging from $99.99 to $169.99:
- RoadMate 2210 – 4.3 inch
- RoadMate 2210T – 4.3 inch with Lifetime Traffic Alerts...