Luokung Technology was granted its motion for a preliminary injunction stopping the U.S. Defense Department from enforcing a Trump-era ban. Luokung, a China-based LBS company, was recently implicated, along with nine other companies, under Section 1237 of the National Defense Authorization Act...
Startup Takes in $33 Million Total Funding
Palo Alto, Calif.-based oneNav last week said it had closed a $21 million Series B round, led by GV, with participation from Norwest Venture Partners and GSR Ventures. The newest round brings total funding to...
Private equity firm Accel-KKR has acquired fleet management software company GPS Insight, a fleet management software leader. Founded in 2005, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GPS Insight provides SaaS-based fleet management software, GPS tracking and other products for Class 3-6 fleets in the...
LBN: You've assembled an impressive team with experience at most of largest location companies. Was that one of the goals when you started oneNav?
SP: When we started oneNav, we wanted to recruit an all-star team of GNSS engineers to...
Eco-Friendly and Safer Routing Announced at Developer's Conference
New Google Maps features were announced this week at the company’s first virtual Google I/O developer conference. Namely, an Eco-Friendly Route option that prioritizes roads and directions to the most fuel efficient. Some of these directions include...
Gozio Health and CriticalArc are partnering to offer CriticalArc’s SafeZone safety, security and emergency management product to hospitals and health systems. The companies said that Gozio’s location-based services platform will be added to SafeZone.
The companies cited the statistic that 75 percent of workplace assaults...
HERE tops list, but all digital mapping companies have strengths/weaknesses.
A recent Strategy Analytics report, “Location Platform Benchmarking Report: 2021,” places digital mapping company HERE on of several categories that include map making and freshness, meeting automotive industry needs, map...
With many stories written about European indoor location companies, particularly during the pandemic, it is interesting to report about a large U.S.-based company’s subsidiary launching a service.
LenelS2, part of Carrier Global Corp. rolled out its indoor location subscription-based...
HERE Technologies is partnering with Siemens Healthineers for HERE Tracking technology to allow engineers to follow the location of service parts during transit and after delivery inside a hospital and monitor their condition in real-time.
The Customer Services unit of Siemens Healthineers, with 1 million annual service...
Prototype Focusing on Ride-Hailing Markets
Airbus Intelligence, Orange Business Services and Geoflex are working on a prototype to deliver a mix of telecom and cloud services that rely on GPS/GNSS positioning of vehicles, smartphones and assets.
The goal of the partnership, which was first announced at...