Quick - where is the company based now? HQ is in Kansas City, but it’s incorporated in the Cayman Islands. (That’s the stuff you pick up in my line of work…)
Wednesday the company said it will shift the location of its incorporation to Switzerland. The board approved it and shareholders will vote on May 20. Assuming all goes well the move will be effective June 27.
Part of the reasoning for the move? “The Swiss office will provide a base for expansion of certain corporate functions in Europe and a more favorable structure from which it would be possible to acquire or partner with European businesses,” said Min Kao, chairman and CEO, in a statement.
Garmin also approved an annual cash dividend of $1.50, a one-time increase from 75 cent, payable to shareholders of record on April 15 and will be paid on April 30.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/18 at 06:00 AM |
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Mayor Tom Menino announced Tuesday that the Public Technology Institute (PTI) selected Boston to win two technology awards:
The city’s Citizens Connect iPhone application won the web and e-government category. The iPhone-based reporting app has been downloaded 5,119 Boston times.
The city’s GIS Data Hub won the GIS award. The Hub launched in August 2009 and gives city employees and residents the ability to access maps, charts and reports with geographic data layers.
- Mass High Tech
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Bernhard Lehner, a professor who studies global hydrology in the Geography Department at McGill, has put together the latest worldwide river map, one with “unprecedented resolution and detail.” The map is a pull-out in the April 2010 “Fresh Water” Issue of National Geographic. The project dubbed HydroSHEDS, when it began at the World Wildlife Fund uses NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data and is from what I understand a raster database, one that’s downloadable.
- McGill Reporter
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North Carolina State University now has a smartphone app that guides users around campus and provides nuggets like photos of buildings from the past and other information. What’s interesting? It was developed by the library, well known for its focus on tech. The future of the iPhone/Android app?
It could even morph into a tool with “augmented reality” features that would allow users to point a smart phone camera at a building or street and have information about it pop up on the screen.
- News Observer
The Downtown Redevelopment Project in Nassau is giving architecture students an opportunity to document measurements and locations of historic buildings and redraft lost blueprints for historic buildings in a GIS.
“The Downtown Redevelopment Partnership works with five partners, all gathering data about Bay Street through the Bahamas National Geographic Information Service (BNGIS), and the Antiquities, Monuments & Museums Corporation AMMC will be the repository of that information,” said Andrew Chin, Assistant Dean of Florida A&M University.
“The GIS database allows us to query information and produces maps of 11,000 buildings, 200 of which are historic buildings, within the study area to get answers.”
The AMMC welcomed students on March 11 from The College of The Bahamas and Florida A&M University to build a relationship with the architectural history of The Bahamas. The AMMC is supervising the group of architectural students.
- Bahama Islands Info
There are 14 internships with the USFS in Arizona (Williams Ranger District and North Kaibab Ranger District) to help the service mark road clearances and perhaps do field work with GPS. Four day work week! Full time college students can apply.
- Williams News
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