TomTom
TomTom N.V. is a Dutch manufacturer of navigation systems and a provider of geospatial data.
History
The company was founded in 1991 by Peter- Frans Pauwels and Pieter Geelen in Amsterdam under the name palmtop has developed various applications for PDAs since its inception. 1994, the Board was strengthened by Corinne Vigreux, who had previously worked with the PDA manufacturer Psion. 2001 nor followed Harold Goddijn, previously CEO of Psion, and the company was renamed to TomTom. With TomTom Navigator one manufactured in 2001 the first mobile navigation system for motor vehicles. Today TomTom is one of the most influential designers of navigation systems and has become the market leader in Europe. TomTom also served to the North and Central American market, so that the company markets its products in 30 countries and this holds over 20 different language versions.
TomTom is listed on the NYSE Euro Next- Amsterdam Stock Exchange since the summer of 2005. Additional offices in Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt / Main, Milan, Massachusetts and Taiwan. The company has since September 2005, the majority stake in the Leipzig datafactory AG - now TomTom Business Solutions, had developed the components for the fleet communication. In January 2006 the Scottish company Applied Generics has been adopted, which has developed a method that can detect signals from mobile phone traffic density. Since early 2007, there TomTom Berlin. Here we try to capture the traffic situation on the basis of floating car data. This is a traffic- dependent navigation are possible. On 16 November 2007 TomTom announced the acquisition of Tele Atlas for 2.9 billion euros.
Share
The stock was temporarily listed in the AEX index. Shareholders with stakes of more than 5% the end of 2010:
- Harold Goddijn: 11.8%
- Corinne Vigreux Goddijn: 11.8%
- Pieter Geelen / Stichting Beheer Moerbei: 11.8%
- Peter- Frans Pauwels / Stichting Beheer Pillar Arc: 11.8%
- Flevo Deelnemingen IV BV ( Cyrte / Janivo ): 8.4%
Products
TomTom sells three categories of products:
- Mobile navigation systems, including TomTom GO series since 2004, TomTom Rider, TomTom ONE since 2006, TomTom XL. TomTom Rider / Rider II are specifically designed for motorcycle use (waterproof, no speaker, for connection via Bluetooth headset rider1 and Scala Rider Rider2 )
- Navigation devices for permanent mounting, these are supplied to the automotive industry, and
- Navigation software for installation on devices that are, PDAs and smartphones no navigation system. The software is sold as opposed to the Linux-based devices, as Windows Mobile version called TomTom NAVIGATOR.
The TomTom's products are modular and cover tasks from, ranging from the guidance for individual drivers to managing and controlling large fleet of vehicles fleets. TomTom Business Solutions offers telematics services for fleet management and is aimed at the business sector.
The operating system running on the TomTom navigation device Linux For many limitations of the functional scope of the cheaper devices are software restrictions, so that there may be ways devices in the lower price segment ( as ONE XL or GO 510) by purely software-based changes in equipment similarly improve with functional features a top model like GO 940.
IPhone
On 8 June 2009 TomTom announced at the WWDC the release of an iPhone version of its software. This requires at least OS 3.0 is required in the iPhone. The software and map material is distributed through the AppStore, in early December 2009 in the version 1.2, divided into different apps with different map coverage or territory. A special car kit with charger, speakers, built in GPS module for Saugmontage on the windshield is sold separately, which is also a navigation with the original iPhone and the iPod Touch, which do not contain built-in GPS receiver allows, and the reception in later generations iPhone is compared to the built-in GPS receiver improve.
Privacy Policy
In April 2011 it was announced that TomTom had sold in the Netherlands speed data users, among others, the Dutch police. These data were transmitted through the PC synchronization of the navigation device to TomTom and anonymous redistributed. The police of the Netherlands is said to have planned with the data, installed at appropriate points safety cameras. TomTom told due to the negative media coverage, to prevent this kind of data use in the future.
Customers
Among the customers of TomTom's spatial data include:
The biggest competitor to TomTom is the U.S. company Navteq, which was acquired by Nokia, as well as the free OpenStreetMap Project.