Comments on: A Dash Of Navigation Software In Your Next Blackberry

By: June 8, 2009 | next media update

June 8, 2009 | next media update — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:35:13 +0000

[...] Research In Motion Acquires GPS Company Dash Navigation TECHCRUNCH Research In Motion has acquired Dash Navigation for an undisclosed amount, according to a spokeswoman for RIM. Dash, which makes makes the car GPS device Dash Express been struggling to compete with GPS device competitors like Garmin, and shifted its focus away from the hardware business last year towards selling its software to other device manufacturers. Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia backed, Dash originally manufactured a network-connected GPS that pooled the location and speeds of all nearby Dash owners to give them back real-time traffic reports. Source> [...]

By: spotoon

spotoon — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:45:19 +0000

must have been an asset sale because I heard that Dash was going down for the count

By: Abalakov

Abalakov — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:17:22 +0000

The comparison to Nokia’s acquistion of Navteq is wrong. Navteq is map maker. However, Nokia has also bought Gate5 – a GPS navigation software provider – and this deal is comparable while Dash is using Navteq maps.

By: Research In Motion Acquires GPS Company Dash Navigation

Research In Motion Acquires GPS Company Dash Navigation — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:14:14 +0000

[...] [via TechCrunch] [...]

By: b2blocal

b2blocal — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:00:43 +0000

very nice feature cann’t wait to get that

By: RahulC

RahulC — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:17:17 +0000

I read somwhere (could be wrong) that Garmin is planning to get into mobile phone. It seems there is stiff competition everywhere… with more and more car manufacturers building cars with built in navigation systems – it might be a tough market for GPS makers.

By: conspiracy minded

conspiracy minded — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:21:24 +0000

i have a dash v1 (was there another?) “block.” Makes a great door stop or book end, but I can’t imagine they’ll revisit the hardware game

By: Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:20:19 +0000

Dash already stopped selling hardware. In fact if you Dash breaks and you are out of warranty you can not get it fixed or replaced.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:14:47 +0000

Very nice purchase. Instant scale, which is required for Dash to fulfill its promise. Strike the $2,000 navi option from my next car purchase.

By: Valuation

Valuation — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:01:35 +0000

$71M is a lot of money. Dash also had a hardware component which I guess will not become defunct.