The telematics, mapping, and mobile applications industry is growing and so are crowdsourced traffic companies. The race to build or acquire the biggest crowd data has taken hold with the first acquisition of Trapster by Nokia / Navteq. Navteq reportedly outbid by five other potential acquirers. Trapster attracted a large app following putting it ahead of TCS / (Networks in Motion) with about five million probes, but behind Telenav, with more than 17 million. Who else is in the game? Onstar, RIM, Google, TomTom, Inrix, Waze, Telmap who track the mobile phone and device location speeds. Read more in the article The Race to Scale Crowd-Sourced Traffic Data is On.
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