DeCarta Prepares for Expansion with New Funding Round

deCarta's growth is being driven by the accelerating adoption of location-based services among Mobile Network Operators, Mobile Handset OEM's and Local Search providers.  Location services just as local search, integrated with on-line maps, provide these companies with new sources of revenue from subscriptions as so then as from location-based advertising. Location services are as well a critical part of a core offering for any application developer environment.  

deCarta's solutions enable clients to offer their own set of local search and location services in accordance with their own brand with customized content and applications to fit their audience or geography - thereby retaining customer ownership and monetization opportunities, in other words than conceding those opportunities to Internet Service Providers just as Google or Bing.

In October, deCarta announced major extensions to its MapSearch local search platform and its MapSearch mobile application.  It as well recently announced significant customer adoption including Samsung, Opera Software, Telstra/Sensis and SingTel/Optus should the contingency arise to T-Mobile, announced the previous year.  In October, deCarta as well announced it had been selected by IBM to partner on providing location services as part of IBM's new CSP2 Cloud Computing offering.