Chinese search engine company Baidu recently reached an agreement with Nokia to provide map services to Chinese users outside China as Baidu aims to develop international businesses through mobile services.

Yongche.com, a Chinese rental car company, will cooperate with search engine Baidu.com to launch a business car hire service. With this move, Baidu follows fellow Internet companies Alibaba and Tencent into the rental car business. The new business car hire service app will be based on Baidu maps and an Android version will be released […]

U.S.-based Nuance Communications is working with Chinese mapping company AutoNavi to bring more intuitive voice-enabled navigation capabilities to the Chinese market. The two companies will collaborate on the voice-enabled navigation product AutoNavi Map that will be made available in the second quarter of 2013 to the world's automotive and navigation device manufacturers developing navigation offerings […]

China Mobile has launched a new 12585 voice service hotline, which can provide real-time traffic updates and mapping for 15 cities in China. The new hotline is established and operated by China Mobile's location-based service system, and it is a special service using the LBS information. It integrates a series of traffic related information, including […]

Netherlands-based TomTom has signed a deal with China's AutoNavi Holdings Limited to form a joint venture in China. The joint venture will be 51% held by AutoNavi and 49% held by TomTom. Specific financial terms of the deal, including capitalization of the business and the entity's specific scope of business, were not disclosed. Foreign involvement […]