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Loqate Names HERE Technologies Foundational Partner Supporting Address Verification for E-Commerce and Top Businesses HERE Technologies has been named a foundational partner for Loqate, a global address verification platform. The partnership expansion builds on a 15-year relationship between the two companies. HERE and...

Ability to operate in PNT-denied or degraded areas growing CACI International CACI 0.36%↑ was awarded a 10-year Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) contract worth as much as $450 million.  CACI will provide JNWC operations support, joint and operational planning, adversary positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)...

Google GOOG -1.23%↓ this week said that both Maps and Waze will have new features that will make it easier for drivers to report such incidents as nearby construction, lane closures, objects and police presence.  The reports, which will come from the Maps and Waze communities,...

Strengthening its efforts to offer positioning in industrial and automotive markets, u-blox this week announced that it has joined the NVIDIA Jetson Partner Ecosystem, which offers AI for autonomous machines and other industrial applications.  As part of the ecosystem, the company says it...

Send your news releases to kdennehy@driverlessreport.com. Go to www.locationbusinessnews.com for more news and an archive of stories. TomTom Expands Partnership With NextBillion and Causeway TomTom  has expanded its partnership with NextBillion.ai, a location technology platform provider.  TomTom is integrating its data and APIs for...

Large investment comes as Waymo expands further into San Francisco So much for autonomous vehicle funding drying up.  Alphabet GOOG -0.01%↓ announced this week that it will invest $5 billion in its Waymo self-driving car unit. The funding announcement, which was announced at the company's second-quarter earnings call, comes...

Overture Maps Foundation has announced the General Availability (GA) of several of its global open maps datasets, which is a free alternative to mapping data provided by Google GOOG -0.01%↓ and Apple AAPL -0.48%↓.  The organization, which is part of the Linux Foundation, said the release will pave...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based oneNav is touting test results in Israel that showed its GPS technology is resilient to widespread interference, including jamming and spoofing.  The company, which has been featured in the national media this week, tested its L5 technology around Haifa, Israel,...

Swift Navigation Reaches 10 Million Vehicle Milestone Swift Navigation has announced that it has been awarded contracts that will equip 10 million ADAS-enabled and autonomous vehicles with its location technology.  The company said that its Skylark Precise Positioning Service is addressing the three barriers...

TomTom’s maps and traffic will power Microsoft products through end of decade TomTom said this week that its maps and traffic data will be used by Microsoft MSFT 0.00%↑ in location-based services.  The deal, which will go through the...