| Company Name | NAVITIME JAPAN Co., Ltd. | |
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| Founded | March 2000 | |
| Funding | 178 million JPY | |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Employees | 220+ | |
| Founders | Keisuke Onishi, Ph.D., CEO Shin Kikuchi, CTO |
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| Service Areas and Language | Japan (2 million + paid subscribers) / Japanese Taiwan (licensed to GPSStar) / Chinese U.S. / English Mainland, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico 19 European Countries /English * Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., and the Vatican Australia / English Singapore & Malaysia / English |
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| Mobile Service via Operator Network | EMOBILE, KDDI, NTT Docomo, Softbank, Willcom (JAPAN) CHT (Taiwan) |
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| URL | http://www.navitime.com/ (English service site) http://www.navitime.co.jp/ (Japanese service site) |
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| Business | 1. Development and licensing of route search and map drawing engines 2. Development and licensing of route search and drawing site chart data formats 3. Development of position information processing system 4. Providing route search and location based consumer services |
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| Awards | 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, APAC Edition (2009), 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series (2008), Design Excellent Company Award (2008), Good Design Award (2007), BREW Developers Awards (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), Mobile Project Award (2003, 2004, 2007), Web Creation Award (2006), Tokyo Metropolitan Government Venture Technology Award (2005) | |