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AOL spinoff a bargain-Barron'sIt also cited other reports saying AOL had been shopping a few of its businesses, including social network Bebo and online mapping site Mapquest. Such sales could lift the stock, Barron's said. (Editing by Maureen Bavdek)... In this article: Time Warner Inc, Market capitalization, Cash flow, MapQuest, Bebo, and New York Stock Exchange |
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International Herald Tribune | 1 day ago
Cultured Traveler: Brad Pitt's Gifts to New Orleans
...the organization may eventually offer tours, but "right now the priority is getting residents settled. ") I drove a rental car, following MapQuest directions, to the intersection of Tennessee and North Galvez Streets, near the heart of the...
In this article: New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Thom Mayne, Lower Ninth Ward, and New York
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Forbes.com News | 1 day ago
Google's Plan To Map The World
...maintains a database of roads that link more than 200 countries. The company says several major Internet-based mapping services, such as Mapquest and Microsoft's ( MSFT - news - people ) Bing Maps, rely on its data for some geographical...
In this article: Google, Android, Europe, Tele Atlas, Navteq, Western Europe, and Nokia
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CNET News.com | 7 days ago
Farewell, triangles: AOL preps its post-Time Warner look
...all sunny: The company is on the verge of significant layoffs, as well as the possible chucking of non-"content" properties like ICQ and MapQuest, as the spinoff date grows closer. Whatever. Isn't that goldfish cute? Caroline McCarthy, a...
In this article: AOL, Time Warner, CNET, Google, Brewing, IT Security, ICQ, and Weblogs Inc.
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washingtonpost.com | November 20, 2009
Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why That Would Make Sense)
...as a policy, and the MIH Group has not gotten back to us at this point. AOL is said to also be eying a sale of other properties, including MapQuest and Bebo. AOL acquired ICQ (well, its then parent company Mirabilis) for $287 million in cash...
In this article: ICQ, Naspers, AOL, Mirabilis, MXit, BuscaPe, and Allegro
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AOL plans to cut a third of workforce
In its portfolio are successful and popular properties such as the celebrity news site TMZ, tech blog Engadget and map service Mapquest. In his Thursday morning e-mail, Armstrong told employees that he would not take a bonus this year...
In this article: AOL, E mail, Google, Time Warner, Revenue, Engadget, Securities and Exchange Commission, and New York
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St. Petersburg Times | November 19, 2009
Crossing the digital divide to Grandma's house
...Everyone's got a different answer and no one's necessarily wrong. Say you live in St. Petersburg and grandma lives in Palm Beach. Mapquest would send you southeast from Tampa. The trip would be 200 miles and take three hours and 27...
In this article: Tele Atlas, Google, Nokia, Florida, and Google Maps
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AOL also likely to eye sale of MapQuest--Is Microsoft a possible buyer?
...shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sale could be its MapQuest online map service. Purchasers of the service that provides mapping and directions,...
In this article: AOL, Microsoft, Waste, ICQ, Bebo, Google, and Time Warner
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Techmeme | November 19, 2009
AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest-Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer? (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Preferences: Open Links in New Window Show Discussion Excerpts Show Link Search Font Size: Note: Because cookies are disabled, reloading this page will clear your settings. Refer to this page to reenable cookies. AT&T loses first legal...
In this article: Verizon Wireless, AT&T, AOL, Microsoft, Techmeme, AppleInsider, Links, and Engadget
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Cnet | November 18, 2009
iPhone online GPS navigators: MapQuest vs. Gokivo
...you might miss another exit by the time the rerouting is done. Costing another $1/month, the Gokivo Navigator offers a lot more than MapQuest. The app had shorter rerouting time during my trials and it has integrated iPod controls (so you...
In this article: Iphone, AT&T, Google Maps, Navigon, TomTom, IPod, and CNET
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MapQuest is a map publisher and a free online Web mapping service owned by AOL. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois. It moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969. When it became an independent company in 1994, it was renamed GeoSystems Global Corporation. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America Online, Inc. Company headquarters are in Lancaster and Denver, Colorado.
Donnelley began making maps with computers in the mid-1980s to generate maps for customers. Much of that code was adapted for use on the Internet to create the MapQuest web service in 1996. In 1999 the company was renamed to MapQuest to leverage the popularity of its online brand. For a while, MapQuest included satellite images, but later removed them. In September 2006, the web site once again began serving satellite imagery in a new beta program.
In 2004, MapQuest, uLocate, Research in Motion and Nextel launched MapQuest Find Me, a buddy-finder service that works on GPS-enabled mobile phones. MapQuest Find Me lets users automatically find their location, access maps and directions and locate nearby points of interest including airports, hotels, restaurants, banks and ATMs. Users also have the ability to set up alerts to be notified when network members arrive or depart from a designated area. In 2005 the service became available on Sprint and in 2006, Boost Mobile.
In July 2006, MapQuest created a beta version of a new feature in which users could now "Build Your Route" by adding additional stops, reorder one's route (and the stops along the way), to avoid any turns or roads en route.
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