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MapAnything and ServiceMax from GE Digital Collaborate to Improve Field Service Response and Delivery Times The Joint Solution Offers Customers Advanced Mapping Capabilities, Real-Time Location Services and Comprehensive Route Planning ServiceMax from GE Digital and MapAnything, Inc. announced a partnership that...

TomTom announced the launch of the new TomTom Camper – a sat nav specifically developed to help explorers to travel worry-free, knowing that they are on the best road for their camper or caravan, whilst avoiding traffic along the...

Bloomberg Read full story at the link above. Self-driving cars may not be on the road anytime soon, but that isn’t stopping Dutch navigation device maker TomTom NV from investing in high-definition maps needed when autonomous driving becomes the norm. Later this...

Denver Post Read full story at Denver Post link above... Here Technologies has opened a new research and development office in Boulder that will focus on improving its futuristic mapping system to ultimately help autonomous vehicles. The company — based in Amsterdam...

TechCrunch Read the full story at the link above... Uber has acquired bike-sharing startup JUMP for an undisclosed amount of money. This comes shortly after TechCrunch reported that JUMP was in talks with Uber as well as with investors regarding a...

TomTom on Sales Block, Again? Rumor? Read the Reuters story at the link above.  Highlights include: * TomTom hit by drop in personal navigation device sales * Asian investors among those being tapped * TomTom developing self-driving car navigation * Possible regulatory hurdles over sensitive...

BARCELONA—Indoor positioning companies exhibited at the Mobile World Congress here to educate retailers, government agencies, transportation companies and others about the benefits of locating and tracking customers, assets and goods. At MWC, Finland-based Quuppa rolled out a Bluetooth Low Energy...

BARCELONA—Canada-based Geotab is grabbing a huge chunk of the worldwide fleet tracking market, saying they have reached 1 million subscribers--and signing a deal with AT&T. Geotab, which started out 15 years ago as a family-run business with a GPS-based telematics...

BARCELONA—As telecommunications companies move to 5G, such companies as New York-based CARTO will be able to give executives location information to optimize their business processes. “As they add 5G networks, and how they plan to deploy them, the insights around...

BARCELONA--Harman announced at the Mobile World Congress that it will build and deliver products based on the Samsung ARTIK Smart IoT platform. Samsung will provide ARTIK-based System-on-Modules (SoMs) and software that run on Harman IoT gateways for both enterprise and...