19 posts and columns on Garmin

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Glympse Gets Bundled Into Garmin Apps

in Mobile on December 18, 2012 at 6:27 am PT

Real-time location-sharing app Glympse is getting a distribution partner in Garmin, which will add free Glympse functionality to its iOS and Android mapping and navigation apps. The famously pricey Garmin apps — currently on sale for about $50 — have more than four million users worldwide. Glympse, you may recall, does something simple and often incredibly useful, which is help people share a map of their current location for a short time — often with the person to whom they’re en route.

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Longtime Garmin CEO Min Kao Steps Down

in News on December 17, 2012 at 8:50 am PT

Min Kao, the co-founder and CEO of navigation company Garmin, is stepping down at the end of the year. The new head honcho is Clifton Pemble — who joined Garmin as an engineer in 1989, and has most recently been president and COO. Shares of Garmin were trading up slightly this morning. As Arik Hesseldahl recalled this summer, Kao had long resisted the encroachment of smartphones, dismissing them as a commodity business.

Cycling Tracker Strava Takes Quick $12.6M

in Social on July 29, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Strava, the competitive social network and personal tracking tool for avid cyclists that announced its previous round of funding only this January, has already raised some more.
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