10-year partnership allows mapmaker to automate processes, CEO says
LAS VEGAS—In a mammoth $1 billion cloud infrastructure deal, HERE Technologies and Amazon Web Services AMZN 0.00%↑ (AWS) plan to support AI-powered live streaming map and location services for multiple markets. The agreement, which runs for 10...
LAS VEGAS—While still not a pre-pandemic levels, CES 2025 was big, noisy and exhausting. It featured most mapping companies, a surprising number of lidar and autonomous vehicle companies, fleet telematics, GNSS vendors and equipment component manufacturers like antenna companies.
While...
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Topcon Agriculture Signs Distribution Agreement with PFG America
Topcon Agriculture has announced a distribution agreement with PFG America to bring Topcon’s after-market solutions to farmers through...
Initial sale is for $150 million, with contingent consideration worth as much as $175 million…
In what could be the biggest location industry deal to close 2024, Chandler, Ariz.-based Viavi Solutions VIAV -0.72%↓ has signed an agreement to acquire Inertial Labs. Initially, the deal calls...
Canada-based Geotab has partnered with Volvo Cars to combine OEM data with the company’s telematics network. The company says the deal allows commercial fleet operators to make decisions based on the telematics information from its platform.
Additionally, and what is becoming a growing...
Hexagon | NovAtel Launches GAJT-310
Hexagon | NovAtel has rolled out its newest product in the GNSS Anti-Jam Technology (GAJT) with the launch of the GAJT-310. The GAJT line is a battle-proven solution for assured PNT that protects against hostile radio frequency...
By Adam Price, Vice President – PNT Simulation at Spirent
Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies like GPS/GNSS have become part ofthe critical infrastructure of our modern world. As we enter 2025 though, a growing number of chipset developers, equipment-makers,...
OCX, delayed for years and burning through billions of dollars, has drawn the ire of lawmakers…
Despite being years behind schedule, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command last week awarded Raytheon RTX -0.20%↓ a $196.7 million contract extension for the GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX). The...
The Federal Communications Commission late last month adopted final rules for cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology, which critics believe was 20 years too long in the making. The FCC says the new rules, which finalize regulatory transition of Intelligent Transportation Systems to C-V2X, will...
HERE Technologies was named as the top mapping and location vendor in Omdia’s 2024 Location Platform Index. Such companies as Google GOOG 1.05%↑, TomTom and Mapbox were also evaluated for strategy, capabilities and market impact in the report.
One of the reasons HERE scored high was its mapping solutions...