Amazon has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Location Service, a platform that’s been in preview since December and is a direct competitor to Google Maps Platform. It's worth ...

Apple will be removing Google Maps from its tablets and smartphones when it releases iOS 6, and now it would appear that Amazon has similar ambitions for its Kindle Fire tablets. Amazon has now ...

The rapid expansion of mobile Internet use has made the ability to collect contextual details like location for personalizing content almost a requirement for website owners. Users expect localized ...

Overture Maps Foundation Wednesday released its first open-source maps dataset to compete with Google Maps. Overture is a collaboration of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom founded in 2022. Image ...

Amazon today announced on its mobile app developer blog that its Maps API is now available in beta as part of its Mobile App SDK. Like the Google Maps API, it allows app developers to integrate ...

We knew that Amazon was ditching Google Maps for its Kindle Fire tablets, but now it’s official: Amazon announced today that it’s Amazon Maps API is now in beta and ready for developers to migrate ...