Facebook planning to acquire GPS app Waze
USA: Facebook is in discussions on a potential $1 billion deal to acquire the GPS mobile navigation app Waze, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The report said that the discussions were “serious” but that no deal had been finalized.
Waze, [...]
BMW Motorrad offers new GPS navigation for riders
USA: According to a recent news, BMW Motorrad is offering the new Navigator Adventure in addition to Navigator IV as a navigational tool for BMW Motorrad riders.
As in news, the Navigator Adventure is a versatile GPS navigation system [...]
Shipment of container tracking units to surpass 1.0 million by 2017
USA: According to a new research report by Berg Insight, the number of active remote container tracking units deployed on intermodal shipping containers was 137,000 in Q4-2012, up from 89,000 a year earlier. Growing at a compound annual growth [...]
Harman releases third quarter fiscal year 2013 results
USA: Harman International has released the results for the third quarter ended March 31, 2013. Net sales for the third quarter were $1.062 billion, a decrease of three percent compared to the same period last year. Net sales decreased due [...]
Qualcomm ranks #1 as the LTE baseband chipset vendor in ABI Research’s assessment
USA: According a recent report from ABI Research, Qualcomm is dominating LTE chipset sales so far with over two-thirds of shipments in 2012. It is forecasted that Broadcom and Intel to be significant challengers to Qualcomm over the next few [...]
China ADAS market to reach 3.1 billion by 2019: IMS Research
China: A recent report by IMS research, now part of IHS, forecasts that the market for automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in China is forecast to grow quickly from $971.0 million in 2013 to $3.1 billion in 2019 in light of [...]
Delphi gets Edison Gold Award for its Connected Car technology
USA: Delphi Automotive’s Connected Car, a product that provides car-to-cloud/cloud-to-car connectivity service, was named a 2013 Gold Award Winner by the Edison Awards. Recently launched with Verizon Wireless as Vehicle Diagnostics by Delphi, [...]
Smartphone shipment surpasses 216.2 million units in first quarter 2013
USA: A recent report by market research firm IDC stated that smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones.
As [...]
Hyundai customers to get enhanced infotainment with SiriusXM package
USA: According to a recent news, Hyundai Motor America and SiriusXM will offer new Hyundai customers a three-month subscription to SiriusXM’s All Access package. Programming enhancements for new vehicles include: SiriusXM NFL Radio, SiriusXM [...]
79% of commercial vehicle drivers are distracted during risky driving maneuvers: SmartDrive study
USA: SmartDrive Systems has released the initial results of the SmartDrive Distracted Driving Index study, which explores the distracted driving rate of commercial fleets.
The study concludes that the top five percent of commercial vehicle [...]
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