When it comes to navigation, MapQuest is back on the map. The mapping company from way back when (that is still around, as it turns out) had a massive surge in downloads after it announced that it wouldn’t change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” following an executive order signed by Donald Trump.
TechCrunch first noticed that MapQuest jumped to the top of the Navigation apps charts in the Apple App Store, bypassing competitors like Google Maps and Waze, which weren’t even a twinkle in a developer’s eye at the time MapQuest was the apex predator of navigation. But it’s not just the niche category where MapQuest is surging: it…
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