San Jose, Calif./London, UK - June 25, 2009 - deCarta, the leading
supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS)
industry, today confirmed that Multimap, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Microsoft, has renewed its contract with deCarta.
Multimap has been working with deCarta since 2007 and uses deCarta's Drill Down Server (DDS) as its core underlying geospatial platform to provide its B2B and B2C mapping and driving directions services. Multimap's industry-leading services rely on deCarta's highly scalable technology to integrate a wide variety of map content and to serve up millions of maps and directions with quality and speed.
"It's a great endorsement for deCarta that such a prestigious company as Multimap has chosen to continue to run its core business offering on our technology" said J. Kim Fennell, President and CEO of deCarta. "As the Location-Based Services market evolves and expands at a rapid pace, we look forward with providing Multimap with the very best technology and support in the industry."
About Multimap
Multimap is one of the world's leading providers of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered on mobile, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms. It also offers a highly-functional API (Application Programming Interface).
The public website, www.multimap.com, provides a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and countries in Asia; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; links to location information; and services such as hotel, restaurant and entertainment booking. The public site attracts over 10 million unique users, registers more than 190 million page impressions every month, and is one of the UK's most visited websites.
Multimap operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft, as part of the Bing team in the Online Services Group.
About deCarta
deCarta is the leading geospatial software platform that has enabled some of the industry's most successful Location-Based Services (LBS) applications such as those deployed by Verizon, Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile, Multimap and Hotels.com. The company's technology is ideal for high-volume LBS applications in the mobile, personal navigation, connected navigation, enterprise and Internet markets where scalability, speed and reliability are vital. deCarta's solutions are preferred by application developers and service providers who seek to leverage deCarta's unique core strengths of server-side and wireless LBS expertise, and also want the flexibility to customize map styles and self-brand. Some of deCarta's customers and technology partners include Appello, ATX, AutoTrader.com, Gearworks, Hotels.com, INRIX, Local Matters, loopt, Maps.com, Motorola, Multimap, NAVTEQ, Networks In Motion, Tele Atlas, TeleNav and WHERE. deCarta is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, California with international offices in the UK, Germany and China. www.decarta.com.
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deCarta, the deCarta logo and Drill Down Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of deCarta, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product or company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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