Rediff.com has sold its stake in Adnear (previously known as Imere), a location based company which it had bought a minority stake in, in 2009, for $1.14 million, Rediff.com has ... Continue_Reading

MakeMyTrip.com backed, online travel meta search engine, ixigo has launched its road travel app, On The Way on the Google Play Store. The company claims that it has over 3,00,000 places listed on the app. ... Continue_Reading

Update: A statement in Parliament is non-committal on why exactly the complaint was filed, except that the Mapathon was without permission. In our opinion (detailed below), India’s Maps policy is ... Continue_Reading

India will start the process of setting up its indigenous satellite based navigation system (SBNS), by launching its first navigation satellite Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) in the second week of ... Continue_Reading

Zoom, a car rental service based out of Bangalore has raised $215,000 in angel funding from Empire Angels, New York and an investor group based out of U.K led by Lady ... Continue_Reading

AssetTrackr Pvt Ltd, providing vehicle tracking solutions, has raised $500,000 from three angel investors ... Continue_Reading

TLabs, the incubation unit from Times Internet*, has announced its second batch of startups, featuring Happay, Langhar, GradeStack, Offermandi, Ooogwave, PrepSquare and iExperience. TLabs provides seed funding of Rs 10 lakhs ... Continue_Reading

Google has today officially launched Google Business Photos program as part of its Google Maps services, to businesses in India. The program was launched in India last year as a pilot program and ... Continue_Reading

It looks like OnMobile has quietly launched a mobile group buying deal service called GreatBuyz, allowing users access deals and discounts on their mobile phones. ... Continue_Reading

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has once again asked all telecom operators to install Location Based Servers (LBS) at the earliest to aid location based tracking of calls up to ... Continue_Reading

India will launch its first navigation satellite this year as a part of its Gagan (GPS aided geo augmented navigation) project ... Continue_Reading

MapMyIndia, a maps and Geographical Information Systems company has launched Mappls SafeWorld, its emergency response enterprise solutions division, which will offer maps based solutions to Indian government agencies and private ... Continue_Reading