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Thursday, July 16. 2009
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Following Up on Some #ESRIUC Threads
One of the truly great things about ESRI User Conference is that if you have a question "THE" person who has the answer is here! I put that to the test during my last afternoon on the floor to follow up on a few threads I'd been following.
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GPS Business News: Larry Kaplan to replace CEO Judson Green at NAVTEQ
GPS Business News reports Larry Kaplan, formerly EVP and General Counsel at NAVTEQ has been appointed new CEO as Judson Green steps down. I found no official statement yet from NAVTEQ.
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Nokia Expects Flat Mobile Share; NAVTEQ Sales Up
The basic story from the Q2 earnings report: The expected target of a 2009 increase in its mobile market share has been re-jigged. It's no expected to be about the same as last year.
NAVTEQ is showing growth: "Geopositioning acquisition Navteq's gross profit rose to EUR126 million from EUR116 million the previous quarter, on higher in-car GPS demand."
- MocoNews
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TomTom "Rights Offer" Pays Off
Remember that TomTom was looking to raise some funds to pay down debt via a few methods? First there was a private placement (securities are sold without a public offering). Then there was a rights offer (a secondary public offering, per Wikipedia).
The sold 96 percent of the shares in the rights offer at 4.21 euros ($5.90) a share.
- Reuters
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World Wind Goes to Programming Camp
internalDrive runs programming camps across the country. A recent one held at Stanford was aimed at teens who already know a bit of programming. Their projects involved World Wind, the open source geodata visualization tool from NASA. Among the tasks to the campers:
- code the game of Risk onto World Wind
- code an interface so users could add data and labels to the program
- code in interface so the Wii could control the program
- The Modesto Bee
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Obama to Tap Marcia McNutt to head USGS
President Obama announced last week that he will nominate McNutt, a professor of geophysics at Stanford, as the next director of the (USGS) and science advisor to the Secretary of the Interior. She'd be the first woman to lead the Survey, if confirmed.
She's been on the Stanford faculty for more than 20 years, and has worked with the USGS at its Menlo Park branch on earthquake studies.
- Stanford Daily
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