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PRESS RELEASE : The French Competition Authority orders Google to restore NAVX’s Adwords account

Paris, June 30th, 2010. Navx, a French corporation based near Paris, announced today that the French Competition Authority has made preliminary finding that Google conducted itself with lack of transparency and discrimination by brutally terminating its Adwords contract. The Authority ordered Google to restore NAVX’s Adwords account within 5 days.

Google had terminated its Adwords contract with NAVX in November 2009 without prior notice, and since then refused to display Navx’s advertisements. Google had argued that NAVX’s speedcam location service violated Adwords’ policy, even if such a service is fully legal in France.

 In its landmark decision, the French Competition Authority grants Navx interim measures, demanding that Google reactivate Navx’s advertisements within 5 days, and clarify the conditions of the Adwords service within 4 months.

 The French Competition Authority ruling is a breakthrough for all Internet players, as it recognizes the existence of keyword advertising market, a market where Google might hold a dominant position.

 «This is a major victory for all companies selling products and services on the Internet, and potentially victim of such a behaviour », says Jean Cherbonnier, CEO of Navx. « From now on, all companies should be treated fairly by Google ».

 

About NAVX

Established in 2005, NAVX is a publisher and provider of geolocalized content and services for GPS as well as Smartphones. Its platform of services provides in real time regularly up-dated information such as the location of speedcams, fuel prices, tourist and restaurant guides. The content provided by NAVX is available in Europe and the USA. The services of NAVX are accessible from the web site www.navx.com and are compatible with the major players in the navigation industry. NAVX also develops iPhone applications such as Snapigo, Essence Eco, Parking Dispo, and “I in the city”. For more information please visit: www.navx.info.

Contact :

 FD (Financial Dynamics)

Yannick Duvergé  : +33 1 47 03 68 10 / +33 6 74 91 48 05 - yannick.duverge@fd.com

 

Apple selects "Parking Dispo" among the best apps that make your life easier !

NAVX iPhone application "Parking Dispo" allows users to find a parking space (with live info about availability). It has been selected by Apple for its advertising campaign. The ad could be seen this morning, in the streets of Paris, in the subway, in daily newspapers !

Now plug & play with Garmin !

NAVX  released today the new version of its software, allowing to automatically synchronize GPS devices with its rich database of content (speedcams, gas prices, tourist guides, etc). While our competitors provide data files that the end-user needs to manually drag and drop at the right place in their GPS, NAVX provides a no-hassle plug & play service: our NAVX Sync software manages the entire process.

Among other features, the key novelty is that the new software is now compatible with Garmin. Already compatible with TomTom and Magellan, NAVX Sync covers three major brands.

Note that for the other brands, manual download works perfectly. And stay tuned: we'll soon add more brands to our automatic download !

Google and NAVX collaborate on Maps API for Flash

After a few long nights and many cups of coffee, NAVX released this morning a version of its community site relying on the new Google Maps API for Flash.

The announcement was made today during the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, CA.

This great achievement was made possible thanks to a close collaboration between Google Maps' product management team in Mountain View and NAVX's technical team in Paris.

See here the details published by Google.

It allows NAVX to benefit from the best of two worlds: maps from Google and flex from Adobe !
 

Navx Beta new release launched today !

After the success of the public lunch of Navx Beta platform, a new high-powered and functional version is available today, ready to host a lot more travellers content.

The new things you may not miss are :

Flickr pictures located on map, so you will be able to visualize the pictures from your journey exacly in the right place they were took and what’s more, create points of interest in the pictures places.

The mass content management, so you will be able to oversee and manage your GPS content easily by selecting lots of POI’s, dragging and dropping them, adding all to a set, export them into your GPS or visualize them in Google Earth.

Social Contributions, so everyone will be able to share, through a public set, special POI, linked to the same context. Our European speedcams database has already been fine tunned with our first Fans.

Browse across your Friends Content

Alerts through GeoRSS feeds, so it is really easy now to keep alert with those contents that are special for each user. This feed is available for each user, set, and contribution.

We hope this version fillfull all your expectations. And that’s not all, we continue to prepare more and more good surprises for next month. So keep in touch and visite the site !!!

Red Herring 100 Europe - Malta Award Dinner

NAVX named as one of Europe's most promising technology companies

NAVX has been named as one of the most promising private technology companies in the 2008 Red Herring 100 Europe. 

Every year the editorial team of Red Herring analyses hundreds of cutting edge companies across Europe and selects the 100 that are best positioned to grow at an explosive rate. The winners have been announced at the Red Herring Europe event taking place this week on Malta:  NAVX is proud to be part of the best 100 private companies !

Need more info about NAVX ? Please contact us ! We will be happy to help you.

info :
Established in 2005, Paris-based NAVX is a leading provider of services and content for GPS devices, such as personal navigation systems. Its subscription-based, real-time services deliver rich information for its customers such as gas prices, the locations of speed cameras, restaurant guides and tourist information. NAVX also recently announced a platform which allows travellers to prepare, record and share details of trips and holidays, positioning places and notes of interest onto online map, available at http://beta.navx.com.
NAVX services are compatible with all major GPS brands, including Garmin, Magellan, Medion, Mio, Navigon, Navman and TomTom. The services are available in eight countries and are translated into six languages. NAVX  will continue to expand its international offering throughout 2008.

 

Navx : Finalist of Red Herinng Europe Award !

Red Herring Magazine has announced its selection of the 200 European finalists, forerunners for the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 award ! And  we are proud to announce that Navx is one of the finalists ! We now hope to be selected in the 100 winners !

The award, given each year to the best private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) will be announced in Malta on April 14-16, where CEOs and founders from the Red Herring 100 will present their winning technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs.

Want to meet Navx, there ? Send us an e-mail !

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NAVX PRESS RELEASE : Navx has just released a platform for creating, publishing and sharing user-generated geolocalised content

Allowing travellers with GPS devices to record their trips and share online and delivering a database of rich information to GPS content providers and device manufacturers

Paris and Hannover, 4th of February 2008 – NAVX, provider of specialised content for GPS devices, has announced the public Beta of a new platform which will allow travellers to prepare for, record and share details of trips and holidays, positioning places and notes of interest onto online maps. Through the platform, NAVX also intends to make available a database of original and user-generated content to GPS device manufacturers and providers of related content and services. The platform can be accessed from beta.navx.com.

The platform will allow those preparing for trips to pre-load useful or interesting geolocalised information – for instance hotels, friends’ addresses, restaurants, museums and sights of interest – onto GPS devices.  During the trip itself, travellers will be able to record their exact voyage and add further locations to the journey as it is made.  Once back home – or even during the journey – the information can be downloaded onto for storing or sharing.

When sharing trip information or publishing to a public source, users can decide what specific information they want to share, organise it, classify it by categories and tag it, making the information easily searchable and useful to friends, colleagues and communities with shared interests.  With full integration with photo-sharing application Flickr, travellers will also be able to share and geotag photographs from their journey. The platform also allows users to publish their maps directly to blogs

Along with NAVX’s own original content, the platform will quickly grow into a comprehensive and rich source of geolocalised data, which NAVX plans to offer to GPS device manufacturers and other providers of location-based services.

Jean Cherbonnier, CEO of NAVX, comments: “The combination of increased user familiarity with GPS devices with the explosion in social media and user-generated content presents a ‘perfect storm’ for our new platform.  Following friends and family as they make trips around the world is a wonderful benefit, but the broad sharing of travel information will help us all make the most of our holidays and business trips.  Partner companies will also be able to access our database of content to add value to their own GPS devices and services.”

The new platform will be compatible with all major GPS device brands and, in the near future, will be fully integrated with all the major social networking platforms. NAVX also plans to provide worldwide travel itineraries through its website, as well as enabling users to search public content and comment on other users’ content.

Location based services conference of ebg

Navx will give a presentation at the "Location Based Services, Geo-localisation & M commerce" conference of the Electronic Business Group, on December 20, in Paris.
The other participants are Bruno Prexl (Bouygues Telecom), Mung Ki Woo (Orange), Pascal Brouet (Mappy). It will be very interesting, don't miss it !

Click here for detail.