This year, Santa sports a purple face mask as he makes his rounds delivering toys. But to ensure kids and others stay safe, he reportedly received one of the fir ...

The bi-directional taxi could position Amazon in the DOOH ad space, attaching traveling billboards to moving vehicles -- and ease the challenge of deliveries for online orders. ...

Location-based services are changing -- and it just may make a measurable impact for ad targeting. ...

Commerce Signals has launched a tracker to help marketers understand where consumers are spending and how their own sales compare to other companies and competitors. Data also is available f ...

When it inevitably comes, the U.S. vs. Google will be the most high-profile antitrust action since the U.S. vs. Microsoft in the late 1990s. In that case, the software gia ...

How much can you trust Google to lead you down the correct path? Google and DeepMind researchers explain how they use data and machine-learning models to predict traffic flows. ...

Waze already helps drivers find nearby gas stations and now will prompt payment of fuel through contactless payments at participating Exxon, Mobil, and Shell stations. ...

Simon Weckert toted a bunch of smartphones down empty streets in Berlin and essentially gamed the technology Google Maps uses to predict traffic, he told the Business Insider in an emai ...

Some believe Santa warps time to deliver all the gifts worldwide in 24 hours. Google Maps knows different. ...

Google rings in 2020 with a look back at 2019. Emily Wood, editor-in-chief for The Keyword, walks through changes at Google in the past year, everything from search and Stadi ...

Company data suggests Google has invested "tens of billions of dollars" in its mapping platform, which is supported by thousands of engineers and map operators and is one of t ...

The travel app Nexit links to Interstate Data USA to display names and types of businesses rather than "nearby" businesses like Google Maps, which could reroute travelers in the opposi ...

By crunching anonymized data such as speed and location, Google can provide insight into the best times to travel or stay off the road, ...

A study found that half of searches were done at home, with 81% on a smartphone, 22% on a desktop or laptop, and 9% on a tablet. ...

"Put yourself in the customer's shoes and consider the roadblocks, pain points, and motivations at each stage of the journey -- paying close attention to the transitions between each sta ...

Local Guides in Google Maps are about to become more visible and social, allowing Maps users in several cities to follow Local Guides who offer recommendations. The filtering feature ...

On Tuesday Google announced plans to expand and add campaign tools to help businesses send directions to consumers, and increase phone calls and traffic to stores. These features -- arrivi ...

It appears that internet utilities will take search into the future, whether organic or paid -- specifically through Google. ...

The newly launched forum and Business Redressal Complaint Form will let people who come across fraudulent activity report issues with business listings in Google Maps. ...

The partnership, designed to direct drivers to retail locations via in-route messaging, will launch in Canada, France, Italy, the U.K. and the U.S. this year. ...

The AR Visual Positioning System map provides navigation through a layer of augmented reality on a real-time map seen through the user's camera. ...

I am seeing more connections between digital-out-of-home interactive screens and search engine advertising and marketing -- especially around the use of data. Others agree. ...

Bing has released three location APIs to support location services for enterprise companies, helping businesses to serve more specific locations in search results. ...

The change lets business owners use cities, postal codes or other data as their location markers to identify service areas. ...

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, announced on Tuesday that Apple will now power its address and map searches on mobile and desktop. ...

A series of recent filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show unusual ways to implement search with advertising. Patents are from Dish Technologies, Uptown Network, and Uber Technolog ...

The deal will bring maps and apps into the manufacturer's infotainment systems that run on the Android operating system. The media display system will become available in cars in 2 ...

Google Maps began testing new shortcuts for directions to home and work - but it is less dependable in charting rural parts of the world. , ...

LinkedIn now calculates data from Bing Maps to show the distance from a commuter's location to a potential job. When viewing a job post from a mobile phone a n ...

A survey released by TripAdvisor on Monday suggests the online channels that influence consumers on where to dine, and finds that 94% of respondents report they have based a dini ...