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Mapquest Gets A New Look And Logo
Mapquest has introduced a new look and a new retro-chic, 1970s-style logo. The changes are part of a series of upgrades begun prior to the...
Bing Adds New Tools, Enhanced Content To Mapping Upgrade
Earlier today Microsoft announced the next version of Bing Maps will offer many new features, enhanced content and multiple design...
MapQuest Brings Roadside Assistance Service To Mobile App
MapQuest has integrated “Uber for roadside assistance” service Urgent.ly into its updated app. What this means is that consumers are...
MapQuest’s New Commute App Helps Optimize Drive Times
MapQuest has introduced a new app for Google Play and iOS: “Commute.” Just as the name suggests, it’s a stand-alone app...
MapQuest Aims For Reboot With New Content, Partners, UI
A few years ago, while others were investing in their mapping platforms, AOL was coasting with MapQuest. AOL’s sustained neglect of the...
MapQuest Transfers Local Listings Management To Yext
Last October, MapQuest started outsourcing local business listings management to Yext. The “claim your MapQuest listings” page is...
MapQuest Aims For Revival With New Mobile App
Once the leader and innovator in online mapping, MapQuest has fallen pretty far from that perch. While the brand survives and the site is still...
Amazon Buys UpNext, Will We Soon See Kindle Maps?
Amazon has done a really interesting thing: it just bought mapping app UpNext. UpNext is a 3D mapping company that started on the PC in 2007 and...
Mapquest Debuts New Local-Social Mapping Site “MQ Vibe”
People have been speculating about it for weeks and now it’s live: MapQuest Vibe. With the launch of the new neighborhood-discovery site...
MapQuest Launches Local Business Listings Center
Local SEOs have another tool to add to the “citation belt,” as it were: MapQuest has announced its own Local Business Center, a...
Mapquest Takes On Google Navigation With Free Android App
Following the success of its iPhone app, Mapquest has released a free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation app for Android handsets. The new...
Mapquest Introduces Transit, Walking Directions
Mapquest has introduced public transit and walking directions. It has had walking directions on mobile for awhile. The transit directions are...
Mapquest Launches New Atlas For Students — With CIA Data
Mapquest has launched a useful new site: Atlas.Mapquest.com. As the name suggests it’s an interactive atlas, directed toward students and...
Mapquest Advances ‘Open’ Strategy With Euro Sites
Mapquest is continuing down its new “open” path with OpenStreetMap. Previously the AOL company announced an investment in the...
Friday Maps Mania: Street View Back In Europe, “Wi-Spy” Accusations In US, Mapquest Opens Up & Put Your Check-ins On The Map
With lots of mapping news today, we’re combining it all into a single round up, which focuses largely on Google. The company decided,...
Mapquest Introduces New Look, New Capabilities
You might not have thought of it this way but the old MapQuest was mostly about driving directions. The new Mapquest (launching today) is about...
We Could Be Lovers: AOL Courts Google & Microsoft
Coy AOL is trying to get as much as it can for its flat to declining search volume from either current partner Google (AOL CEO Time...
Year In Review: Local Search & Maps
While analysts and practitioners have been prognosticating the imminent arrival of local search for the last several years, 2009 was finally the...
MapQuest Integrates Citysearch Content
MapQuest or variations on its name represent five of the top 22 search queries in the travel category (in November) according to Hitwise....
MapQuest (Finally) Launches Street Views With “360 View”
We’re more than two years in with street-level photography, although Google was the only game in town for most of that time among the...