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U-blox spins off its Cellular IoT Business...see our paid subscriber story (u-blox). Weekly Location Industry News News tip? Send them to kdennehy@driverlessreport.com. Go to www.locationbusinessnews.com for more news. Location Business News is looking for your company’s news, products and use cases...

Hexagon announced this week that it closed the acquisition of Leuven, Belgium-based Septentrio NV for an undisclosed figure. Hexagon, which made the initial announcement in January, hasn’t said if there will be personnel consolidation or layoffs at Septentrio, which...

Waymo has won a 30-day permit to map roads at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). While the company won’t be allowed to carry public passengers, the permit gives it the opportunity to begin aggregating data to allow its cars...

Hexagon Unveils Portfolio of Physical Security Solutions, Rebrands Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division has announced the expansion and rebranding of its portfolio of physical security solutions to HxGN dC3. The new name stands for detect, command, control and collaborate,...

Trimble Partners With Xona Space Systems, Makes Investment Paid subscribers get access to U.S. Senator blasts Ligado investor, more on FCC's alternatives to GPS meeting, Grab Maps foray into autonomous vehicles, plus People/Jobs. Xona Space Systems has partnered with Trimble TRMB -1.16%↓ to integrate Trimble’s correction...

Send your news releases to kdennehy@driverlessreport.com. Go to www.locationbusinessnews.com for more news and an archive of stories. C.J. Driscoll & Associates Releases New Study of the U.S. Commercial Telematics Systems Market C.J. Driscoll & Associates has released the 324-page 2025-26 U.S. Mobile Resource Management...

Embedded World 2025, held this week in Nuremberg, Germany, allowed GNSS and telematics company to showcase new modules, antennas, sensors and other products. One company, IoT provider Telit Cinterion, rolled out the LE310 LTE Cat. 1 bis module series...

Zonar Lays off Staff Following Acquisition Seattle-based Zonar Systems laid off an undetermined amount of employees following the company’s recent acquisition by GPS Trackit. The company declined to provide details about the layoffs, according to Puget Sound Business Journal. Location Business...

The FCC will vote on alternatives to GPS later this month.  Full details are in our paid subscription to Location Business News. News tip? Send them to kdennehy@driverlessreport.com. Go to www.locationbusinessnews.comfor more news. Location Business News is looking for your company’s news,...

While artificial intelligence, for the second year in a row, dominated many sessions at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, location technology as an enabler for asset tracking, connected and autonomous vehicles seemed to be gaining pre-pandemic traction. One company, Samsung subsidiary HARMAN, launched Ready...