Dave Wheaton News Today

When the West Michigan Blues Society hosts this year’s International Blues Challenge competition on Sunday, Oct. 16, lakeshore bands will be well represented.

Battery Ventures, a global, technology-focused investment firm has bought into Latitude, which offers web-based mapping software and related geographic information system capabilities. No financial details were released. Latitude’s technology “was extremely attractive to us, as was the company’s growing and diverse set of customers,” said Battery partner Morad Elhafed. “Global GIS is a multibillion-dollar market that has demonstrated consistent growth across all verticals over the y...