This week the Chinese service Didi Kuaidi, launched the beta of its service in the United States. Chinese passengers who use Didi Kuaidi at home can now request rides in the U.S., and the SDK powering that app is CartoDB Mobile SDK. You can read more about this all around the web.

Last year the Ambassadors Program started as an experiment, with select CartoDB users receiving slight upgrades to their accounts. Since then, we have been watching our program grow and find ourselves constantly amazed at the level of talent and passion of our Ambassadors. We like to think that the upgraded Ambassadors accounts (more storage, more layers, sync tables, etc.) have played a part in this. ;)

Because we love what we’ve seen thus far, we are now expanding the Ambassadors Program!

Every Sales Manager and CMO needs to understand how their marketing campaigns influence the bottom-line. Unfortunately, tracking the impact of a campaign is often easier said than done.

Birdseye, a seamless connector between Salesforce and CartoDB, aims to help. Birdseye adds geographic context to your Salesforce data for a deeper understanding of what’s working and what isn’t.

We are very excited to share details on our upcoming trip to Tokyo, organized together with OSGeo Japan and Pacific Spatial Solutions. Javier de la Torre and Jaime de Mora will be there for a week full of events and meetings.

Mapping and data analysis are shaping the ways in which news and important stories are shared and understood. A quick browse of our journalism and new media gallery truly places into perspective the emerging practice of data-driven journalism. At the core of data-journalism, we at CartoDB are building a culture of geo-journalism underscored by our wonderful and active journalism community. Simultaneously, we strive to be at the cutting edge of data-journalism innovation with mapping and storytelling tools that take reporting to the next level, robust free accounts for IRE members, and engagement opportunities such as our Ambassador’s Program to help our journalism community get the most from their data. In short, we love data-journalists, we love our communities of storytelling mappers, and we’re celebrating our news-centric love with the Second Annual GeoJourNews Conference! - and you’re invited!

We’re back, with our fifth mobile series post, and today we’ll be explaining offline routing for our Maps SDK.

CartoDB is happy to announce the re-launch of our robust Grants Program! The CartoDB Grants Program funds organizations seeking the means to create meaningful data-driven visualizations that facilitate efforts to achieve social progress, environmental protection, technological innovation, data science, and economic growth.

If applying geospatial analysis via data-driven visualizations will benefit your cause, we want to help! Discover how your organization can benefit from CartoDB’s Grants Program.

We’re excited to introduce our newest addition to our technical team, Denis! Denis comes from Yandex Maps, where he was the head of R&D of Maps and is an expert on Geospatial Systems.

Data velocity, variety, and volume are growing every second as more and more systems, from satellites, drones, to mobile devices, are designed for data gathering. We call this massive accumulation of data, Big Data. How we come to understand this collection of data can no longer be dependent on traditional forms of data analysis.

CartoDB loves going new places and exploring new things. That’s why we take risks with our technology and platform, which ultimately provide new insights for you and for us! So it is not surprising that we will be heading to South Korea and Japan, as we work to expand all our markets. While we are there, please don’t hesitate to email us to arrange a meeting to discuss location intelligence and better data analysis.