Amsterdam, 08 February 2012 – TomTom has made a landmark move into the insurance market by providing the technology behind a new insurance product, which bases premiums on driving behaviour. TomTom has teamed up with insurance broker Motaquote for the launch of Fair Pay Insurance – a product that rewards ‘good’ drivers with lower premiums. [...]

At the end of the year 1.5 million people around the globe were actively using TomTom LIVE Services, including TomTom HD Traffic. Coming from 690,000 at the start of the year, TomTom continues to see growth in the use of its traffic information. Currently, over 90% of TomTom’s automotive systems and 20% of TomTom’s Portable [...]

TomTom passed another milestone by providing its award-winning fleet management system to 15,000 customers actively managing over 175,000 vehicles. This represents a 30% growth rate year on year in the number of fleet vehicles managed using TomTom’s WEBFLEET(R) fleet management system. As a result of TomTom’s organic growth strategy, WEBFLEET remains the largest single-platform, legacy-free [...]

The Dutch firm TomTom already has an app on iPhone but said the new version, to be released in Autumn this year, would also be optimised for iPads. At the IFA trade show in Berlin TomTom unveiled a new version of its iOS navigation software that offers an optimized user interface for the iPad. “Now [...]

The innovative and sophisticated GPS tracking device implanted in the rhino horns at the Mafikeng Game Reserve in the North West should be rolled out to all parks across the country says Mafikeng Game Reserve manager Louis Coetzee. A limited number of rhino’s have been implanted with the device at the reserve as a pilot [...]

TomTom has combined its sub-Saharan Africa and Benelux operations and hopes to increase local market share to 50% in the next two years. TomTom regional manager of sub-Saharan Africa Joost Jetten has been named VP of sales for Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) and sub-Saharan Africa. Jetten says the position has been newly created and [...]

AMSTERDAM, Jun 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, announces the availability of its latest digital map products, including Tele Atlas MultiNet(R) 2010.06. With this release, the company’s navigable map products now cover more than 32 million kilometers (20 million miles) across 102 countries and territories globally. [...]

A 24-year-old British man was fined an effective R8 000 or one year in jail by a special World Cup FIFA court in Bloemfontein on Thursday after a car crash on the N1 in which a man died. The Bloemfontein District Court fined James Haywood R24 000, or three years imprisonment, of which R16 000 [...]

The World Cup has shown South Africans how important traffic information on heavily congested roads near Sports Stadiums could be! But where do we find this important information that is ‘Real Time” and not the delayed reports from many radio stations? TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, has recently announced [...]

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