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BOSTON — FleetMatics, a GPS tracking applications company for commercial fleets, announced that it has closed a $68 million growth equity financing. As part of the round, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a later-stage venture capital and growth equity firm, invested with Investcorp Technology Partners, FleetMatics’ majority owner. New World Ventures also participated as a new investor....More

Historically, the construction industry hasn't been an early adopter of new technologies, so wary HVAC and plumbing professionals can take comfort in the fact that the three technologies presented here are not new at all...More

Taking advantage of GPS and biometric technologies, SHARCC Time and Attendance, www.ueven.com, is a remote field service time clock solution that uses GPS coordinates to verify that a registered employee is on the job by requiring his or her biometric finger identification to clock into a customizable task or phase....More

CLEVELAND — SageQuest LLC, a GPS fleet tracking provider, was honored as the first place winner of the Weatherhead 100, an award that recognizes the achievements of the fastest growing companies in Northeast Ohio. SageQuest received top honor with a growth rate of 1,474%, based on revenue from 2004 to 2008. This accomplishment marks the second year in a row that SageQuest has been named to the list and the first time the company has taken the top honor....More

DALLAS & SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — AT&T and TeleNav Inc. recently announced the expansion of TeleNav Track from AT&T, offering TeleNav Track LITE, a GPS-enabled mobile resource management tracking service, which helps plumbing and HVAC businesses improve field service, delivery or sales operations through real-time visibility of employee locations....More

Theft of equipment from construction sites amounts to as much as $1 billion annually, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, and it estimates...More

Now more than ever contractors are searching for ways to cut costs. How you go about cutting costs is just as important as where you look for those cuts. For example, too often the immediate reaction to the need for cutting costs is to eliminate positions....More

CRANFORD, N.J. – Intergis LLC, a provider of mobile resource management and logistics technologies for small to mid-sized businesses, unveiled its new brand identity and Web site, www.intergis.com....More

Fleet tracking and management solutions are increasingly popular in the service industries, enabling awareness of where all your service trucks are when technicians are out in the field (typically within three meters) and a lot more data covering how they got there and when....More

HERE ARE TWO GPS-based software solutions that can help contractors keep an eye on company vehicles and that can minimize drive time, reduce fuel expenditures,...More

By Steven Spaulding Of CONTRACTORs staff First there was a guy, his truck, his phone and his customers. And for a while that worked just fine. Then there...More