Google has abandoned its U.S. map-data provider, Tele-Atlas, in order to begin making its own maps. Earlier this month, Apple traveled a similar avenue, buying a small maps competitor called Placebase. Is all this movement towards ...READ»
When Garmin [NASDAQ:GRMN] introduced their latest batch of Nuvi GPS units, they came with one transcendent feature: free traffic alerts for the lifetime of the product. But now that review models have gone out to the tech media, ...READ»
Today mobile phone giant Nokia [NYSE:NOK] snapped up GPS maker NAVTEQ [NYSE:NVT] for the healthy sum of $8.1 billion. Because EU regulators and Nokia shareholders had already green-lit the deal, the completion of the transaction ...READ»
