Thoughts on (re-)joining Mapbox — I recently started a new chapter, working on Strategic Business Development at Mapbox. In some ways, it doesn’t feel that new; I’ve known the Mapbox team since they were a 10 person start-up, first as a friend, later as a Director and always as an admirer of the innovations they’ve…

Today the sales of Nokia’s HERE division was officially announced ending a long running debate over who would buy them. The sale has been well covered by other folks. …

Although official announcements are not out, it sounds like the German Auto alliance formed between BMW, Daimler and Audi have won the bidding to Nokia’s HERE business. The reported price is €2.5B ($2.7B). …

The Global Positioning System turns 2o years old today. On July 17, 1995 GPS was declared fully operational, marking its official start as a positioning utility, provided free of charge by the US Government. …

Buying and selling map companies is back in the news so I am back on Bloomberg. I really enjoyed this interview with Emily Chang and Cory Johnson on Bloomberg West. We covered a lot of ground and they had very good questions. My reference in the title refers to the…

Mapbox announced today that they’ve just raised $52.55 million in a Series B round. That gives the company the fuel to continue building out their platform. The investors come with great backgrounds to feed into the growth of the company. But I want to talk about timing. This round comes…

I just added a new recipe on IFTTT that sends me a message whenever someone sends a tweet within a specified radius. They bill it as a neighborhood tweet watch but it could obviously be used to watch for tweets within any area or place. …

Interesting press release out of TomTom today: The Dutch PND and map maker announced that they have “extended (their) location-based services product portfolio with an online turn-by-turn navigation service”. That means that they are adding server-based navigation; a feature that is offered by competitors like Nokia HERE and Google but…

(Note: This was first published on Prioleauadv.com September 3, 2013)