Tag Archives : Locationary

After buying out Toronto-based crowd-sourced location data company  Locationary, Apple purchased  transit navigation app HopStop, HopStop’s deal was first reported by Bloomberg . HopStop organises data on local businesses and will be a part of the mapping suite too. The deal to pick up HopStop which had recently launched a Waze like service for reporting delays, accidents and other traffic [...]

Apple has been pulling all stops to improve its Maps app after the debacle of its Maps app, Apple has reportedly bought crowd-sourced location data company Locationary. Google is continuously improving it’s popular Google Maps app, Google’s acquisition of Waze, the GPS navigation app was a step in this direction. Locationary is located out of Canada and focuses on improving searching for [...]