A decade of GPS Business News

A decade of GPS Business News

Dear all,
GPS Business News was born early 2007 on the simple idea that the GPS and positioning/navigation markets were in need of a business newsletter and website that would help worldwide stakeholders keep up to date with technology and business.

The outcome was an immediate success with 25,000 monthly readers in 100+ countries in the first year and pageviews that reached sometimes half a million a month.

In that decade geolocation technologies (in all their flavours) have become ubiquitous and transformed the world in many ways, from location-based advertising to driverless cars, to the (almost) extinction of paper maps.

9+ years and almost 6,000 articles, podcasts and videos later I have decided to discontinue GPS Business News. It has been a great ride from the beginning till the end, and, like every journey, a great opportunity to make a number of good friends all over the world.

I have decided to concentrate on consulting, events - ConnecteDriver which will be in its 4th year in 2017 and the newly born Geo IoT World which had a great start last week in Brussels) as well as a geolocation startup which will be publicly announced in a matter of months (stay tuned!).

I will nevertheless continue to post about geolocation and connected cars on the Twitter feed and LinkedIn group and probably contribute some articles here and there.

I hope you enjoyed GPS Business News as much as I did, see you soon!

Ludovic Privat
Editor
ludovic.privat@gpsbusinessnews.com

NB: The website and its content will continue to be available for a number of months.
NB2: If you are interested in our email database, please reach out.

Hubert FORGEOT

President & CEO @ AGUILA Technologies | IoT, Tech For Life | President @ French Tech Pays Basque | CCEF

8y

Good luck for this new way ! We could meet with my-Cariboo, our lastest innovation !

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Alain Kervizic

Automotive Sales Director at HARMAN International

8y

Bonne chance pour la suite Ludovic.

Bill Schwebel

Digital Solution Transformation Leader | Smart Building Automation | Edge Systems | Work Flow Optimization | Location Services | IOT | Enterprise Devices

8y

Special thanks for your news and perspective over the past 7 years that I have followed you. The industry loses a great journalistic organ but retains one of its noteworthy entrepreneurs. I look forward to your continued influence.

Ludovic, You are an icon in the LBS world and your always timely and relevant reporting will be missed! Congratulations on your new endeavors and I look forward to seeing you at many events in the future.

Michael Cottle

Technology Exec. ex-Apple, Founder. Investor. Advisor. Delivering results for global SaaS companies.

8y

Ludovic, it's with great sadness that I read this official news. I always appreciated that you were willing to expose the hypocrisy, hype and heresy but also promote the truly innovative accomplishments of our colleagues and the companies that make up this ecosystem. GPS Business News will be missed but it's great that you will still be part of the industry and I look forward to many interactions with you. We all wish you tremendous success in your new ventures and thank you for your years of contribution to this industry.

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