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| 10.09.2025 | Telenav Integrates Google Places UI Kit to Enhance Navigation Search Experience | Telenav today announced a partnership with Google to license Google's Places UI Kit for integration into Telenav's navigation platform.
By incorporating Google's Places UI Kit, we deliver the quality and comprehensiveness users expect, whil... |
| 06.08.2025 | Building an Identity Spine for Unified Marketing Success | In today’s marketing ecosystem, businesses are navigating an increasingly fragmented digital landscape while attempting to drive customer lifetime value metrics and purchasing behaviors. Today’s hyper-connected consumers are interacting acr... |
| 10.02.2019 | An Overview of Apple's Second Round of Face ID Secrets Published by the U.S. Patent Office this week
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Search | When Apple introduced Face ID with iPhone X in 2017, the tech site "Motherboard" posted a report about Face ID security being fooled by a 3D-Printed mask. Researchers from the Vietnamese cybersecurity firm "Bkav" used a ... |
| 14.01.2019 | Alexa Automotive News Round Up – CES 2019 | Alexa Automotive News Round Up – CES 2019
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Lots of news came out of this year’s CES, including the continued advancement of voice assistant integration in the automobile.... |
| 04.07.2018 | OpenStreetMap now lets you edit maps with Microsoft’s Bing Streetside imagery | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OpenStreetMap (OSM), the crowdsourced mapping project that lets anyone update and edit online maps, has announced that it now supports ... |
| 04.07.2018 | OpenStreetMap now lets you edit maps with Microsoft’s Bing Streetside imagery | OpenStreetMap (OSM), the crowdsourced mapping project that lets anyone update and edit online maps, has announced that it now supports Bing Streetside imagery in its online iD editor.
This represents a notable development for OSM, which is ... |
| 28.10.2016 | OpenStreetMap invites companies to pay up to $20,000 a year to support the ‘Wikipedia for maps’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OpenStreetMap (OSM), the “Wikipedia for maps” service that lets anyone update and edit online maps, is inviting companies to pay up to ... |
| 06.04.2016 | OpenStreetMap boosted as Maps.me opens in-app map editing on iOS and Android | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is being given a notable boost this week — a major GPS navigation app provider has announced that it will let ... |
| 06.04.2016 | OpenStreetMap boosted as Maps.me opens in-app map editing on iOS and Android | OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is being given a notable boost this week — a major GPS navigation app provider has announced that it will let users edit OSM data directly within its own mobile apps.
Launched out of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011, Map... |
| 17.02.2015 | OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of maps, now offers A-to-B directions on its site to solicit more edits | It may be one of the four major online mapping platforms, but OpenStreetMap (OSM) doesn’t always get the same recognition as Google Maps, TomTom, or Nokia’s Here. The reason? OpenStreetMap has never really been a go-to navigation destinatio... |
| 17.02.2015 | OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of maps, now offers A-to-B directions on its site to solicit more edits | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It may be one of the four major online mapping pl... |
| 09.08.2014 | For The Love Of Open Mapping Data | It’s been exactly ten years since the launch of OpenStreetMap, the largest crowd-sourced mapping project on the Internet. The project was founded by Steve Coast when he was still a student.
It took a few years for the idea of OpenStreetMap ... |
| 19.05.2014 | Telenav Takes On Google With New OpenStreetMap-Based Offline Navigation SDK | Telenav has made a large investment in the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap (OSM) project and currently employs the project’s founder Steve Coast. With the help of this, the company hopes to take on Google’s mapping services for both mainstream u... |
| 30.01.2014 | Telenav Buys Skobbler For $24M To Power An OpenStreetMap Challenge To Google Maps | Last summer we heard that German startup Skobbler was being courted as an acquisition target, in the wake of Google’s purchase of Waze. Today Skobbler has achieved that exit — albeit not Waze-sized — selling to Telenav, maker of the Scout n... |
| 03.09.2013 | OpenStreetMap Founder Steve Coast Leaves Microsoft For Telenav | Along with Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the flagship crowdsourcing projects on the Internet, but unless you are watching this space closely, it may come as a surprise that Steve Coast, the founder of OSM, worked at Microsoft for... |
| 16.04.2013 | Mobile ads GPS study: How far will you drive for a deal? (infographic) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’ll drive 2.8 miles for a sandwich, but 7.1 miles for a great Italian restaurant. And while we may only go 3.6 miles for a coffee sho... |
| 16.04.2013 | Mobile ads GPS study: How far will you drive for a deal? (infographic) | We’ll drive 2.8 miles for a sandwich, but 7.1 miles for a great Italian restaurant. And while we may only go 3.6 miles for a coffee shop, we’ll easily go almost nine miles for just the right mall.
Nagivation services company Telenav knows a... |
| 21.02.2013 | Telenav Updates Its Scout iPhone Navigation App, Now Lets You Share Arrival Times And Locations | Telenav’s Scout for iPhone is a pretty capable personal navigator that gives you voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, access to local information and all the other features you expect from a GPS app. Today, the company is launching a major... |
| 13.01.2013 | Cars Are The Next Playground For App Developers | This year’s CES may have been about startups more than ever before, but over the last few years, the car industry has also increased its presence at the show. In previous years, we heard a lot about the connected car, but until now, those c... |
| 18.10.2012 | ThinkNear CEO Talks About Post-Acquisition Potential, Credits TechStars NY | On Wednesday, Telenav bought Techstars NY grad ThinkNear for $22.5 million, making it the largest Techstars exit to date. This comes a bit later in the year of mobile ad exits, including Millennial Media’s hugely successful IPO and rumors o... |
| 16.10.2012 | With its first acquisition, TechStars New York has more to offer than reality TV | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
TechStars’ New York greatest success story to dat... |
| 16.10.2012 | With its first acquisition, TechStars New York has more to offer than reality TV | TechStars’ New York greatest success story to date? ThinkNear, a hyper-local mobile ad service that was acquired today by Telenav for a whopping $22.5 million.
Telenav is a GPS navigator for your smartphone. With this buy-up, it will launch... |
| 05.04.2012 | Local Search App AroundMe Trumps Yelp’s Mobile Apps With 6M Monthly Users | Wow, AroundMe has really been flying under the radar. The location-aware mobile search app is announcing today that it’s now passed the 6 million mark for monthly unique visitors. To put that in perspective, Yelp’s mobile apps see 5.7 milli... |
| 07.09.2011 | MobileGroove Boosts Mobile Search Commentary & Coverage; Announces Regular Search Engine Road Test With Industry Veteran Charles Knight | Column debuts today with hands-on analysis of Goby mobile search app
Cologne, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 – MobileGroove, the leading source of analysis and commentary on mobile search, mobile marketing and social media, today joins with Ch... |
| 14.09.2010 | TeleNav Launches Mobile Ad Platform With Turn-by-Turn Directions | TeleNav, which offers branded and white-label navigation apps for a wide variety of mobile phones and carriers, just announced the launch of its own mobile advertising platform. While most mobile ad platforms now offer some form of location... |
| 25.06.2010 | TeleNav Dreams Of GPS Navigation On Every Phone, But Must Contend With Google [Video] | Sal Dhanani, one of the co-founders of mobile GPS navigation company TeleNav, wants to “bring GPS navigation to the masses through mobile phones.” His company has been pursuing that dream since 1999 when TeleNav was founded. Today, TeleNav ... |
| 14.05.2010 | TeleNav shares spike in IPO and remain high — a big win for Menlo Ventures | TeleNav (TNAV), provider of mobile-phone navigation services, had an incredibly strong first day on the market, with its share price rising 23 percent — even though it slashed its price from the forecasted $11 to $13 range to $8 upon its de... |
| 21.12.2009 | Review: AT&T Navigator app for iPhone | I’ve been using the AT&T Navigator app for iPhone for a couple of months now. This is a free app, but it requires a $10/month subscription from AT&T (or $70 for an annual subscription). I’m not going to belabor the GPS functions too... |
| 02.11.2009 | TeleNav IPO: If Google starts a free navigation service, we’re doomed. Whoops | TeleNav, which provides voice-guided navigation services on mobile phones, filed for an IPO today. The company’s offering, though, goes head-to-head with Google’s recently announced Google Maps Navigation offering.
Did Google rush its annou... |
| 04.08.2009 | TeleNav GPS Navigator hitting the T-Mobile myTouch tomorrow | If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying much attention. TeleNav is the first GPS house to really get messy with mobile (well, except for Garmin, who is just doing it entirely wrong), having already launched full-fledged Turn-by... |
| 15.07.2009 | Whuffaoke or Bust: RWW’s Road Trip Resources | After publishing her book about social capital and the power of social networking,The Whuffie Factor, Tara Hunt is doing what any change agent does. She’s changing. She’s quit her job, purchased a winnebago and coerced five friends to karao... |
| 12.02.2009 | Telenav turn-by-turn for Android coming in 2 weeks | Were you disappointed by this mornings news that the other nuvifone wouldn’t be sportin’ the droid? So were we. Then we realized it wasn’t so much because we cared for the new nuvifone, but because we just wanted turn-by-turn navigation on ... |
| 05.01.2009 | CrunchGear Loyalty Rewards Program contest winners! | *Drum roll*
And the winners of the first CrunchGear Loyalty Rewards Program are…
Johnal and Outlaw. Marc M., we realize you’ve been around for quite a while and we’re looking into it.
So, Johnal and Outlaw, check your inbox.
Thanks again to... |
| 11.11.2008 | Hands on: Telenav Shotgun Internet-connected GPS has promise | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 08.11.2008 | TeleNav launches their own PND calls it the Shotgun | It’s just another GPS, right? Is that what you’re thinking? While it is just a GPS the Shotgun from TeleNav brings a bit more than your standard Garmin. It’s somewhat comparable to the Dash as well, but we all know what happened to them.
Th... |
| 18.09.2008 | The digital car is the next big applications market | [Editor’s note: The following is an op-ed piece by Dev Khare, vice president of VC firm Venrock in Palo Alto. Dev frequently blogs on this topic at http://www.nextwala.com.]
In parallel to the Web and mobile devices, a new marketplace for a... |
| 25.06.2008 | CONTEST: Guess how much we’ll all be gouged by gas prices and win three months of free Telenav service! | Hey, look – gas prices keep going up! How about that? We can’t save you any money on gas but we can give you three free months of TeleNav GPS service on your cell phone. There’s a feature that finds cheap gas in your nearby vicinity, too. H... |
| 04.03.2008 | GPS in 3D may be coming to the US | Nav N Go, a producer of navigation software for handhelds, may finally be ready to bring its 3D GPS software to American handhelds, as it debuts its latest version this week at CeBIT in Hannover.
The company only recently began a strong app... |
| 30.01.2008 | Hands on with TeleNav's GPS Receiver | When I switched from the Sidekick Slide, I decided to stay with T-Mobile since I’m month-to-month with them rather than jumping to AT&T or Verizon or Sprint. So my BlackBerry Curve is sans GPS, but has Wi-Fi instead. It sort of evens ou... |
| 22.01.2008 | TeleNav makes its way across the pond | [photopress:TeleNav_GPS_Navigator_on_the_TMobile_UK_8310.jpg,thumb,left]
One of our favorite mobile phone GPS providers, TeleNav, is bringing its unlimited 3D moving maps with voice and on-screen turn-by-turn driving directions to Europe. A... |
| 19.12.2007 | Holiday Horror Contest winners | I’m pleased to announce the two winners in our Holiday Horror contest:
* beaudeal’s Holiday Horror: Canada has too much snow
* XDonBoard’s Holiday Horror: Rompin’ through the desert with illegals and no cash!
These two crazy kids got the mo... |
| 18.12.2007 | Holiday Contest: Tell us your holiday travel horror stories, win a Blackberry Curve with Telenav | Over the river and through the woods indeed — the next few weeks are going to be some the nastiest travel weeks ever. Take snow, sleet, the flu, poor logistics, and a few million roadside assistance calls and you’ve got a nightmare waiting ... |
| 11.12.2007 | Tell CG a Holiday Travel Horror Story, Win a Blackberry Curve | Telenav was kind enough to send CrunchGear two free AT&T Blackberry Curves to give away to the readers with the best holiday travel horror stories. The phones include three months of Telenav service and our own Erick Schonfeld swears by... |
| 07.08.2007 | TeleNav Now On HTC Advantage | My family recently caught the GPS bug, probably because they’re tired of hopping onto MapQuest every time they go farther than the local mall. They ask me which models/software I’d recommend and I throw out all the big names, including Tele... |
| 17.07.2007 | TeleNav "Share Your Location" Contest Winners | Hey folks, back on July 6 we wrapped up a contest for TeleNav’s GPS Navigator service awarding two lucky readers a Bluetooth GPS receiver and 3 months of TeleNav service. People entered. We picked winners. And then we promptly forgot to eve... |
| 06.07.2007 | Great Outdoors: In Car Diversions | We all spend too much time in our cars and a summer drive can turn into a nightmare with the right mix of traffic, heat, and gas prices. There are industries built around making our in-car time more productive and enjoyable. The degree to w... |
| 29.06.2007 | Canadians Get BlackBerry 8830, TeleNav | Canadians get all the fun stuff: Socialized healthcare, clean air, provinces and territories instead of states. And now, along with getting the BlackBerry 8830 smartphone, they’ll be getting GPS Nav from Bell, powered by TeleNav GPS.
We jus... |
| 27.06.2007 | Contest: "Share Your Location" With TeleNav GPS Navigator | Last week we mentioned the latest version of TeleNav GPS Navigator, with new features including finding, sharing and rating the locations of businesses, restaurants or even where you found cheap gas.
To celebrate the release, the company is... |
| 25.06.2007 | Contest: "Share Your Location" With TeleNav GPS Navigator | The entries have started rolling in, so it looks like we’ll have a real competition on our hands. Please keep ’em coming.
In case you’re not sure what this is all about, we’re running a contest to celebrate the release of the latest version... |
| 11.06.2007 | TeleNav Adds A Bit O' Social Networking To Its Service | With all the Apple happenings, or lack thereof, it’s probably not the best day to launch a new version of a mobile-device app, but not everyone’s world revolves around Apple. TeleNav today launched its latest version of TeleNav GPS Navigato... |
| 19.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Finds Its Winner | There were some great stories submitted for our Find Yourself with TeleNav contest. We’re now closing the votes. The winner, I’ll remind you, will receive a TeleNav GPS Receiver with three months of service, graciously donated by TeleNav.
T... |
| 17.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Finalists | The contest has been closed for awhile now and I want to say, good stuff from all of you. You’re all winners, but only one of you is getting the TeleNav GPS Receiver with three months of service.
Anyway, we’ve now had some minutes to sort t... |
| 16.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Update | The end is neigh! You’ve got about six hours until the conclusion of our Find Yourself with TeleNav contest.
To enter, send an email to contest at crunchgear dot com explaining your best stories of directional retardation (use the subject: ... |
| 15.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Update | Our Find Yourself with TeleNav contest is drawing to a close. Just one day left. There have been some great entries so far, and I know there are a bunch more out there, so keep them coming.
To enter, send an email to contest at crunchgear d... |
| 14.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Update | We’re entering day three of our Find Yourself with TeleNav contest. There have been some great entries so far, and I know there are a bunch more out there, so keep them coming.
To enter, send an email to contest at crunchgear dot com explai... |
| 13.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Update | Just a quick update to remind you all about the continuation of our Find Yourself with TeleNav contest. The winner will receive a TeleNav GPS Receiver and three months of the TeleNav service.
To enter, send an email to contest at crunchgear... |
| 12.02.2007 | Find Yourself with TeleNav Contest | In celebration of our deep appreciation for the TeleNav service and in recognition of its continued global expansion (US, Canada, Brazil, China, Italy and more to come), we’re launching a contest that will be open to anyone within TeleNav’s... |
| 29.01.2007 | Blackberry Pearl + TeleNav GPS = Hearts | I have before me a Blackberry Pearl from Cingular and a TeleNav GPS Receiver. Individually, the Pearl is one of the most desirable phones on the market. Packed within its ultra-svelte casing are some genuinely dynamic features.
Although it’... |
| 22.01.2007 | CES 2007: TeleNav, Trimble Outdoors And Polaroid's ClickFree Products | There are a few more products from CES I wanted to fill you in on. One I met with before CES (TeleNav), one I missed my meeting with (Trimble Outdoors) and the other was a spur-of-the-moment thing (Polaroid’s Media Backup Drives).
TeleNav m... |
| - | Telenav Helps Chinese Auto Manufacturer SAIC Expand to Markets Outside China | SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 15, 2021--
Telenav, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNAV), a leading provider of connected-car and location-based services, announces that SAIC, China’s largest automotive group, has selected Telenav’s VIVID ® Nav so... |
