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Our Indoor Location report discussed by Forbes

Grizzly Analytics's report on Indoor Location Positioning technology was just written up by Forbes in a great article (here)  summarizing the area and the R&D we found by major companies.  A similar article also appeared in Canada's Globe and Mail (here).

Our Indoor Location report, which was already being sold by several research report resellers, is now also available at ResearchAndMarkets - click here.  And here's the press release they wrote about the report.

Want to hear more? E-mail us at info@grizzlyanalytics.com and we'll give you a call at your convenience.

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