Mapbox Raises $52.6M Led By DFJ To Be The “Map Layer” For All Apps

mapbox smart directions With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a developer of customizable maps used by third-party apps like Foursquare, Pinterest, Mapquest and 16,000 others, has raised $52.55 million in a Series B round of funding. The company claims that it’s… Read More

MapBox Takes On Apple With An SDK To Put Maps Into iOS Apps

Screen Shot 2015-05-21 at 08.12.21 The impending sale of Nokia’s Here mapping division has put a sharp focus on the role that location and maps in particular are playing in the mobile world. And while we are seeing a number of big names emerge as potential Here suitors — they include the likes of Baidu and Uber, Facebook and more — an upstart in San Francisco is hoping to provide its own viable — and,… Read More

Foursquare Targets Its B2B Pitch With Places And New Location Cloud

dennis-crowley1 Foursquare — the startup likely best known for popularising the “check-in” for users to share their locations with their social networks — has more recently been trying to make a name for itself as a location-based big data machine. To grow its business, it partners with large tech companies like Twitter and Microsoft to gather data, and with advertisers like… Read More

Facebook And Nokia Quietly Ink Deal For Here To Power Maps On Mobile, Instagram And Messenger

hacker way on here One of the companies in the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia’s Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish company to power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps for its mobile web version, and it is also running a test for Here to power location in native apps like Instagram and Messenger. The news comes as mobile company Nokia has confirmed that it… Read More