According to a tweet by Bloomberg news, Richard Williamson, the executive behind Apple’s new Maps app, just got fired by Eddy Cue. After Scott Forstall was recently fired, Cue was given the reigns on the Maps app and it appears that he’s wasting no time getting things fixed.

Shares in TomTom jump 13 per cent to a three-week high on speculation the Dutch maker of personal navigation devices may be taken private by its founders with the help of iPhone maker Apple, which could then buy TomTom's maps database.

Garmin announced that they are going with DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) for road traffic information in Europe.

Initially, the new DAB GPS navigation devices released in the UK, where DAB was rolled out long ago. INRIX will be data provider.