CEO Chris Sheldrick's startup is used by Mercedes cars and the Mongolian post office. China's biggest carmaker just invested, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

If you have seen ads of What3words splashed across newspapers and are wondering what it is and how it works, we have got you covered. If you have seen ads of What3words splashed across newspapers and ...

If you’re at a house or business, it’s easy enough to communicate where you are: just give an address or a google-able name. But if you’re trying to meet someone at their blanket on the beach, or ...

'Changing human behaviour and challenging the status quo in any market, and any category is a challenge. But the beauty of what3words is that when people who struggle with addresses, and those who are ...

What3words divides the entire world into three-by-three metre squares and assigns a unique three-word labels to each. The company, which divides the world into three-by-three metre squares and assigns ...

Since WIRED selected what3words as startup of the week in May 2015, the company has gone from strength to strength. Most recently, its grid system was adopted as an addressing standard by La Poste ...

A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which ...

What3Words is a navigation startup that began life as a consumer product, but pivoted to B2B. A major milestone was signing Mercedes-Benz as a client in February 2019. While now boasting 100 employees ...

What3words divides the world into 57 trillion squares, each with a unique three-word address Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is ...

There is a city in central Florida where two homes have adjoining backyards. One of the houses sits on Anna Catherine Drive; the other faces Summer Rain Drive. You could scramble under a hedge and get ...

What3words shed jobs and significantly cut its pre-tax loss as sales more than doubled in 2024, it has been revealed. The London-headquartered tech business, which is backed by ITV, Mercedes-Benz and ...