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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.
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.
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
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
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
