{"id":4240,"date":"2009-01-05T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T02:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2009-01-05T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T02:24:11","slug":"callaway-buys-golf-gps-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"Callaway Buys Golf GPS Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/products-right.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/products-right.jpg','popup','width=333,height=381,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/products-right-tm.jpg\" height=\"228\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Products-Right\" \/><\/a>There is nothing worse that getting lost on the golf course. And now, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callawaygolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callaway<\/a><\/strong> has the solution for when it happens. According to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/article.asp?aID=132912&amp;link=perm\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callawaygolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callaway<\/a><\/strong> has just purchased Carlsbadistan-based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uplaytech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPlay<\/a><\/strong> for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPlay makes a consumer electronic device that uses GPS technology as well as aerial and satellite photography to give golfers a bird\u2019s-eye view of the course they are playing. The device also provides distance information. The deal closed Dec. 31. Callaway said it would not materially affect 2009 financial results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to say we invented this technology 12 years ago over drinks in Newport Beach, but obviously, we did nothing with the idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/article.asp?aID=132912&amp;link=perm\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing worse that getting lost on the golf course. And now, Callaway has the solution for when it happens. According to a story in San Diego Business Journal Callaway has just purchased Carlsbadistan-based UPlay for an undisclosed sum. UPlay makes a consumer electronic device that uses GPS technology as well as aerial and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}