Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapQuest, a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today integrated traffic and road condition cameras into their maps and directions. Now available in over 100 ...

MapQuest on Monday took the wraps off a new application for iPhone users designed as an alternative to the built-in Google Maps software and billed as a "leap forward in how people interact with maps, ...

MapQuest is driving toward a major makeover. The Denver-based company whose name was widely used as a verb amid the dot-com boom — as in, "MapQuest it" — was overtaken last year by Google Maps as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By helping motorists better navigate the streets, Yahoo Inc. hopes to drum up more traffic of its own. The Internet giant is using the might of its vast online network and several ...

Whether you prefer Google Maps or Waze, there is a wide range of apps that provide driving directions these days -- and they will often give real-time traffic and accident updates, alternative ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What do you do if you’re Mapquest, once the go-to place for people ...

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 ...

In a move not unlike the “Send2Car” feature on the Dash Express GPS navigator, Garmin has worked it so that people using Google Maps and MapQuest will easily be able to send the address they’re ...

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.