In 2006, the state had a high-tech payroll of $9.8 billion, with 155,174 high-tech employees at 10,756 high tech locations.
Gate (Garchinger Technologie und Grunderzentrum) – is the high-tech location north of Munich for businesspeople.
It is a no-fuss, high-tech, location-aware, voice-recognizing, over-the-air updating, multi-tasking machine – and it is available just in time for holiday wish lists.
Plus, the ex-Philips-owned high tech campus/Eindhoven location has been chosen to tailor to the hardware focus, with various high tech companies already sited in the area.
Google has half a decade investment in location tech.
And there is a trail of attempts even before that into the dark days where location tech wasn't even strong enough to support its own neck.
Now TechCrunch has learned that in 2015, Snapchat reached out to Drop to buy its location tech IP, according to co-founder Zachary DeWitt.
The Pilgrim SDK and Places API "grew substantially," according to a post by CEO Jeff Glueck, and now provides location tech to 125K+ developers.
Google is also evidently keen on getting eyes indoors, having continued to expand the mapping of indoor locations with its Street View cameras (even if its retail vision for indoor location tech isn't as clear-cut as Apple's quite yet).
The company is currently trying to become the main location tech company and turn into a recommendation app for restaurants, bars, etc. "A lot of people understand what we're trying to do, being the location layer on the Internet, but there are a lot of people that don't," Crowley said.
