Trimble Expands Landmine Clearance Collaboration with The HALO Trust
Trimble TRMB -2.64%↓ has announced its expanded support for landmine-clearance non-profit The HALO Trust. The company said it is donating an additional 175 Catalyst GNSS systems, including DA2 GNSS receivers.
In Kosovo, supervisor Valbona Ceka maps the perimeter of...
Satellite maker Astranis to add Xona's PNT algorithms in early design contract
California-based Astranis announced last week that it is partnering with Xona Space Systems to develop an initial phase of the Resilient Global Positioning System, or R-GPS, program. Astranis, which won an $8 million U.S....
European container shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has announced that more than 1.5 tracking device-equipped containers now have HERE Technologies’ location service integrated. The partnership’s financial details were not disclosed.
Hapag-Lloyd, which offers its smart container tracking solution Live Position, has leveraged their known expertise...
Trying to grab a piece of the potentially lucrative autonomous vehicle market, rideshare giant Lyft LYFT 2.66%↑ has announced partnerships this week with May Mobility, Intel-owned INTC 4.83%↑ Mobileye and Nexar.
In the first deal, Lyft will offer its app to launch autonomous vehicle service with May Mobility in Atlanta...
TomTom and CARIAD have announced that the first models from Volkswagen Group brands, which feature the companies’ co-developed next-generation navigation solution, are hitting the roads. Starting with Audi premium electric vehicles, the new navigation solution is integrated into the vehicle platform, providing operation across infotainment...
Photo courtesy of Beijing Satellite Navigation Center.
Is the rise of BeiDou the biggest threat to global U.S. satellite navigation interests?
China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system (BDS) has received about $1.78 billion for new projects to compete with its main rival, the U.S.-based...
Despite legions of naysayers in the media, there is strong financial interest in autonomous vehicles as Waymo closed $5.6 billion in an investment round late last week. Led by its parent company Alphabet GOOG -1.56%↓, other investments came from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T....
United Kingdom-based Loqate has partnered with GrabMaps to integrate location data for Malaysia into its platform. The companies hope to expand the partnership to Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
For its part, Loqate, a global location intelligence specialist, offers its 14,000 business customers...
BAE Systems demonstrates next-generation M-Code Increment 2 GNSS User Equipment Tech
BAE Systems demonstrated M-Code signal tracking with an Increment 2 GNSS receiver powered by the company's Next-Generation Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). This demonstration was part of the Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 2 Miniature...
Canada-based Mappedin, which started as a school project at the University of Waterloo, has grown into one of largest indoor mapping companies. A third of all malls worldwide now have Mappedin maps, Hongwei Liu, CEO and founder.
“We started it to...
