China Location-based Services Industry Overview
The Chinese location-based services market is moderately consolidated and is characterized by a mix of domestic and international players offering services in the country. The market players, including Telenav Inc., Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Amap), Here Technologies, TomTom International BV, and Zebra Technologies Corp., are undergoing strategic initiatives like mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and product launches, to expand their customer base and mark their presence in the market.
- In September 2023, Amap, a maps application operated by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, expanded its coverage to overseas territories using China’s home-grown Beidou satellite navigation system, advertising its service as a world atlas for Chinese people. This digital map supports route planning and navigation in more than 200 countries and regions after an upgrade.
- In September 2022, Luokung Technology Corp., a spatial-temporal intelligent big data service company and provider of interactive location-based services in China, announced that the company's operating affiliate, eMapgo Technologies (Beijing) Co. Ltd. eMapgo Technologies is a leading service provider of navigation and electronic map in China. The Ministry of Transportation approves it as the first intelligent service provider of transportation pilot applications to form the technical guidelines and industry standards based on pilot applications of V2X autonomous trucking on open highways.
China Location-based Services Market Leaders
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Telenav Inc.
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Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Amap)
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Here Technologies
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TomTom International BV.
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Zebra Technologies Corp.
- *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
