Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding ...

If you were born after 1990, you will have to imagine this (the rest of us actually lived it)... In the past, if you wanted to drive to an unfamiliar location, you'd need to get a physical map, use a ...

Whether you prefer Google Maps or Waze, there is a wide range of apps that provide driving directions these days — and they will often give real-time traffic and accident updates, alternative ...

Earlier this week Mapquest was sold by corporate parent Verizon to System1, an ad-tech company you’ve probably never heard of for an undisclosed amount, which was “not material enough for Verizon to ...

Younger readers may not remember this, but Google Maps wasn't always the default way to look up how to get places. Way back ...

MapQuest has done an impressive job of building a useful array of driving-related tools onto its core mapping program. The site can guide you to your destination, help you avoid traffic entanglements, ...

You might not have thought of it this way but the old MapQuest was mostly about driving directions. The new Mapquest (launching today) is about local search and an expanded range of capabilities and ...

MapQuest today got a few useful additions: You can now save personal data in your My MapQuest account -- like your home and work addresses, your mobile numbers, and car's mileage. The first two ...

If you're not a fan of the recently renamed Gulf of America, you can call it whatever you want courtesy of MapQuest. The online navigation company appears to be poking fun at President Donald Trump's ...

Verizon has sold the 13-year-old MapQuest for an undisclosed price to the ad-tech firm System1. The sale of MapQuest was not material enough for Verizon to file paperwork. The telecom company ...

AOL’s MapQuest may be the market-leading map site by a long shot (with 50 million monthly visitors versus 30 million for Google Maps), but it is still playing catch-up when it comes to features, ...

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