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Mapping Company NavInfo Tapping into Consumer Market, Thanks to Baidu and...
NavInfo (SZ:002405) was once AutoNavi’s direct competitor when their target customers were businesses, not end-users. Apart from serving clients like automobile makers, NavInfo sold map data to...
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Indoor Map Service Palmap+ Secured 12 Million Yuan Of Series B Financing
Indoor Map Service Palmap+ reportedly received 12 million yuan ($1.95 million) of Series B Financing from TusPark Ventures (report in Chinese). Founded in 2010, the company is principally engaged in...
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AutoNavi’s English Nav App Goes Free too
AutoNavi announced today the English version of its nav app and human-based navigation service would be for free. It’s only one month after the Chinese version of the nav app become free. The company...
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AutoNavi Launched LBS Cloud Platform with Alibaba
AutoNavi recently unveiled LBS cloud strategy with Alibaba, which invested $294 million for a 28% stake in the company earlier this year. AutoNavi’s LBS cloud platform and Alibaba’s cloud platform has...
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5 Questions With Spottly, A Social Travel App That Helps You Spot Interestingly
When check-in is no longer fun to you or your friends, what else are you willing to share related to location and places you’ve been to? Today we are introducing you a new social travel app which was...
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Location-based Social App Momo Announced 80 million Users, Having Broken Even
image credit: Tang Yan’s Weibo Location-based social app Momo has registered 80 million users after two years and three months since the launch, the founder Tang Yan disclosed with a Weibo post. Daily...
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PassyingBy, Another Location-based Social App Connecting You to People...
PassingBy is an app for you to share messages or pictures with people passing by and interact with them. It sounds simple but can help you on various occasions; for instance, it can broadcast a...
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Tencent Fully Acquires Map Service Linktech Navi with 60 Million Yuan
Chinese Internet giant Tencent continues its acquisition spree this year by pouring 60 million yuan ($9.92 million) of funding in Beijing-based mapping service Linktech Navi for a 100% stake in the...
View ArticleAlibaba to Fully Acquire Mapping Service AutoNavi
Alibaba, the largest e-commerce marketplace and service provider, announced today to fully acquire AutoNavi Holdings Ltd.(NASDAQ:AMAP), the Chinese map and data service provider. Update: AutoNavi...
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Alibaba’s Mapping Service AutoNavi Talks Monetization Plans
AutoNavi, the Chinese mapping company Alibaba Group has fully acquired, talked its monetization plans at the 2014 World Geospatial Developers Conference (WGDC): (1) transaction-based commissions from...
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