After losing his role as head of Twitter’s Product team, Daniel Graf has officially left the company. In a tweet Friday afternoon, Graf thanked…
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Telenav outs Scout app, not to be confused with its other Scout app
Telenav now has two apps called Scout, but they offer different user interfaces and somewhat different functionality. One is for North America and the other -- brought in through Telenav's Skobbler takeover -- for the rest of the world.…
Read MoreCartoDB takes $8M in funding to build platform for “thousands” of niche mapping apps
The Spanish firm is also relocating its headquarters to New York, nearer to most of its client base -- though it insists it will still be a European company.…
Read MoreWhy Google and Apple’s battle to lock users into their services will stop at your car’s door
Gigaom spoke with Nvidia automotive guru Danny Shapiro about what Android Auto will look like and why the car won’t be the next front in the mobile OS war.…
Read MoreIn transit: Nokia’s Here maps moves from Windows RT to Windows 8.1
After starting life on the small screen of a smartphone and then moving to a Windows RT tablet, Nokia's Here mapping software is coming to the big screen: It will be freely available for all Windows 8.1 devices.…
Read MoreOpenStreetMap gets physical as Lokku invests in SplashMaps
The data-wranglers' seed funding should help the U.K.'s SplashMaps, which makes fabric maps for outdoor enthusiasts using OpenStreetMap and other open data, go international.…
Read MoreWe should be worrying about Google’s assimilation and consolidation, and here’s why
The Gmail-Google+ privacy row is interesting on its own terms, but it's really just part of a bigger picture that should concern all of us, particularly regulators.…
Read MoreApple patent shows off “layered” Maps
The USPTO has published a new patent application from Apple that shows some advances to its Maps app.…
Read MoreGoogle wants to build maps that customize themselves based on what they know about you
In the next generation of maps, Google's map designers say the service will know enough about you that it can show you a map that has been customized for your location and specific needs…
Read MoreAre crowdsourced maps the future of navigation?
Telenav hasn't just hired OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast away from Microsoft; the navigation company plans to wean itself entirely off of proprietary cartography, relying solely on OSM's collaborative, crowdsourced and freely available maps.…
Read MoreApple’s M7 coprocessor might bring big improvements to its mapping abilities
The new M7 motion coprocessor in the iPhone 5s might be able to help you find your car, where you are in a building, or where to catch the next bus.…
Read MoreNokia unveils its connected car platform: Here Auto
Nokia takes the first of many planned steps into the connected car, launching an embedded infotainment and navigation system called Here Auto that reaches beyond the vehicle into the broader world of smartphone apps.…
Read MoreForget tablets. Nokia has a bigger connected gadget in mind: the car
Nokia believes its can use its role as the auto industry's mapmaker as a launchpad into the connected car. In an interview with GigaOM, Nokia Here EVP Michael Halbherr shares his vision of the Nokia-powered vehicle.…
Read MoreMaps with friends: CityMaps’ iOS app adds social, personalization to navigation
While it has mapping data and navigation, the primary purpose of the app is to create personal maps that can be shared and collaborated on with friends.…
Read MoreIntroducing Esri, where the world’s biggest organizations come together to build maps
The company has hundreds of thousands of members -- governments, major companies, the biggest NGOs -- that collaborate in real time to make some of the most data-intensive maps anywhere. That collaboration is already having an impact on the types of maps that get made.…
Read MoreRuckus starts tracking indoor location with YFind acquisition
Ruckus Wireless is the latest Wi-Fi equipment vendor seeking to use its own wireless technology as a GPS network in miniature. It has bought Singapore's YFind for an undisclosed sum.…
Read MoreCan you predict future traffic patterns? Nokia thinks it can
Nokia's Here wants to predict traffic patterns in the future by visualizing its past.…
Read MoreOpenStreetMap captures crowdsourcing in striking interactive graphics
OpenStreetMap shows off the last eight years of crowdsourcing map development in a series of striking images.…
Read MoreGoogle sends big bags of fresh cash to Waze’s early backers
Four years after it launched at our Mobilize conference, Waze is finally sold to Google for about a billion. It certainly was a windfall for its early investors. And one surprising one!…
Read MoreGoogle confirms it is acquiring Waze to add real-time social data to its maps
After months of rumors that speculated the company was the target of an acquisition by either Facebook or Google, social-mapping provider Waze is set to be snapped up by Google and added to the web giant's map service.…
Read MoreIf Google isn’t trying to snatch Waze away from Facebook, it really should be
Reports that Google has entered a bidding war with Facebook over the social-mapping service Waze may be just a gambit by the company to force a better deal, but there are compelling reasons why Google should make a bid.…
Read MoreNow there’s an app to help you dodge bullets
Researchers have developed a new app and hardware module that will help you find the direction of gunfire.…
Read MoreTelenav’s Scout iPhone app now lets friends coordinate on a map
Telenav's latest iPhone update has some nifty new collaboration features, including the ability to notify friends and family or your ETA and for multiple users to converge on the same location.…
Read MoreGoogle Maps navigates its way into Kia, Hyundai connected cars
Google's mapping and local search data is making its way into more connected car platforms. Automakers aren't quite ready to let us download Google Maps directly into our dashboards, but they're definitely leaning more heavily on the search giant to power their nav systems.…
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