Trimble Acquires @Road for $496 Million

Trimble is acquiring @Road for $496 million. The mobile resource management firm helps enterprise level clients improve productivity for on the road professionals. This is the kind of stuff that helps plan a delivery truck route for optimum efficiency. The business has got to get big, as traffic gets worse, fuel prices climb and the technology improves to help drive these efficiencies. So imagine not only the best route, but the route optimized to avoid traffic that is predicted from historic data patterns. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how the GPS industry grows and if the biggies stick to devices only or break off into non-device revenue streams in a major way like this.

Via Information Week

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