MapQuest has stopped Google Maps' market share gains for the time being. But Google Maps increasingly benefits from Google search results. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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Google Inc.’s Maps application is making headway against the No. 1 map Web site, MapQuest, according to an analyst from Hitwise Pty., which examines Internet usage data. A year ago, the number of U.S.

With lots of mapping news today, we’re combining it all into a single round up, which focuses largely on Google. The company decided, after suspending, examining and “scrubbing” its Street View ...

Harnessing the wealth of OpenStreetMap data, MapQuest has launched an "Open" version of itself, allowing anyone to add restaurants, fix errors, define the best directions that real drivers know, and ...

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 majors. There were also less-well-known independents such as ...

Denver’s most recognizable dot-com is at a crossroads, grappling with a steep erosion of its core business amid fierce competition from a pair of tech Goliaths in Google and Apple. MapQuest, once the ...

Garmin Ltd.'s GRMN Garmin International Inc. unit formed partnerships with Time Warner Inc.'s TWX MapQuest Inc. and Google Inc. GOOG to launch a new feature that allows consumers to send trip-planning ...

The new bridge over the St. Croix River has been open for a week now — but some online mapping services haven’t caught up. MapQuest was still trying to send motorists over the Stillwater Lift Bridge ...

Just off the 16th Street Mall, a tech company rewards workers with the quirky perks of a startup: Ping-Pong, a healthy Tiki bar and free waffles on Thursdays. But this is no startup. It’s MapQuest, ...

Can developers help MapQuest regain its luster? Trailing Google Maps, Mapquest is courting developers by rebuilding its Developer Network and introducing two products to make developing applications ...

Web mapping spot MapQuest has been quietly making their app much more convenient and easy to get around. Maps can now go nearly full-screen, zooming can be done with a mouse wheel, and Live Traffic ...