AOL: Mobile
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...
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 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...
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 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 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...
AOL Returns As Independent Company, Search Decision Looms
Yesterday was the first day of trading for the “new” AOL, an independent company with a market cap of $2.5 billion dollars. When AOL...
MapQuest Launches iPhone App With Innovative Local Search Features
AOL’s MapQuest has been in mobile mapping longer than any of its rivals, but it’s playing catch up when it comes to the iPhone,...
MapQuest Launches Enhanced Biz Locator, Puts Brands On The Map
MapQuest has beefed up its business locator tool. A scrolling vertical bar now appears on the upper right of every map allowing users to...
MapQuest Launches Mobile Personalization
As part of a wave of new features, MapQuest late last year introduced My MapQuest, a personalization tool for the PC side of the business. It...
ComScore To Report Google Maps Now Number 1
Forthcoming January traffic data will reportedly show that Google Maps has taken the lead from MapQuest as the top mapping site in the US....
BlackBerry Mobile Bonanza: Microsoft Launches Live Search, Google Introduces New Search Client & AOL Launches MapQuest 4 Mobile
At the CTIA wireless trade show today Microsoft announced an extension of its existing relationship with BlackBerry maker RIM. Previously...
AOL Unveils MapQuest Local, Video Search For Mobile (WAP)
MapQuest has recently stepped up development efforts, rolling out a new and improved “beta” site just a couple of weeks ago....
AOL Acquires Sphere & Creates Search Interface For iPhone
Sphere, software that connects contextually relevant content to your content, has been purchased by AOL. The Sphere Blog confirms the...
AOL’s Big Mobile Push
Yesterday at the mobile trade show CTIA in San Francisco, AOL made a slew of mobile product announcements. The arguable centerpiece of that was...
AOL Relaunches WAP Portal, Starts Broader Mobile Push
AOL is quickly and quietly moving on a number of fronts in mobile to establish itself as a leader. Not long after the relaunch of rival...
AOL Introduces ‘Platform A’: Integrated Ad Targeting
AOL has moved its corporate headquarters to New York to be at the center of the U.S. ad and media universe and has introduced what it’s...
AOL Launches Improved Mobile Search
AOL has improved its mobile search capability, especially for Windows Mobile devices. Earlier I had incorrectly reported that there had been a...
AOL Buys Third Screen Media Ad Network
Seemingly in parallel with the land grab going on online, mobile M&A is heating up. Earlier this month, Microsoft acquired EU ad firm...