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5-Nov-2012
Quarterly Report
The following discussion and analysis should be read together with our condensed consolidated financial statements and the notes to those statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. The forward-looking statements are contained principally in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and this Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. Forward-looking statements include information concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations, future sources of revenue, business strategies, financing plans, competitive position, industry environment, potential growth opportunities and the effects of competition. Forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by terms such as "anticipates," "believes," "could,"
"seeks," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," "potential,"
"predicts, "projects," "should," "will," "would" or similar expressions and the
negatives of those terms.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to
be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. We discuss these risks
in greater detail in "Risk factors" and elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. Given these
uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements. Also, forward-looking statements represent our management's beliefs
and assumptions only as of the date of this Form 10-Q.
Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these
forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if
new information becomes available in the future. You should read this Form 10-Q
completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be
materially different from what we expect.
In this Form 10-Q, "we," "us" and "our" refer to TeleNav, Inc. and its
subsidiaries. We operate on a fiscal year ending June 30 and refer to the fiscal
year ended June 30, 2012 as "fiscal 2012" and the fiscal year ending June 30,
2013 as "fiscal 2013."
Overview
Our mission is to make people's lives easier, less stressful, and more fun when
they are on the go.
Our personalized navigation and location based services, or LBS, are created to
meet the challenges of on-the-go people, such as deciding where to go, what to
do, how to get there and when to leave. Our most recent services have solved
these challenges by creating products that uniquely provide easily accessed,
relevant, personalized information for everyday discovery, daily traffic, local
search and voice navigation - across phones, computers, and cars. With millions
of users able to access Telenav while on the go today, we believe that we are
well positioned to capitalize on growing market opportunities related to
connected cars and mobile advertising.
We derive revenue from wireless carriers, automobile manufacturers and original
equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, advertising and end users. We primarily derive
our revenue from our partnerships with wireless carriers who sell our LBS to
their subscribers either as a standalone service or in a bundle with other data
or voice services and from automobile manufacturers whose vehicles contain our
proprietary software and are able to access our navigation services. We
currently provide our LBS to customers in North America, Asia, Europe and South
America.
Through our hosted service delivery model, we provide our solutions to end users
and customers through the networks of leading wireless carriers in the United
States, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Inc., or T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular
Corporation, or U.S. Cellular, and through certain wireless carriers in other
countries. We also provide on-board and connected off-board navigation software
and services for automobile manufacturers and OEMs. Our flexible and proprietary
platform enables us to efficiently reach and retain millions of end users,
across all major mobile phone operating systems on a broad range of wireless
network protocols as well as through advanced automotive navigation systems.
This platform provides data and analytics that enable us to create more
personalized experiences for mobile applications, location based advertising and
customer lifecycle management.
We generate revenue from service subscriptions, including premium offerings, fixed fee arrangements, software licenses, and local mobile advertising. Our customers include end users, wireless carriers, automobile manufacturers and OEMs, advertisers and agencies, and enterprises. End users with subscriptions for our services are generally billed for our services through their wireless carrier or through application stores. Our wireless carrier customers pay us based on several different revenue models, including (1) a revenue sharing arrangement that may include a minimum fee per end user, (2) a fixed annual fee for any number of subscribers (up to specified thresholds) receiving our services as part of bundles with other voice and data services, (3) a monthly or annual subscription fee per end user, or (4) based on usage. We also derive revenue from the delivery of customized software product and royalties from the distribution of this customized software in automotive navigation applications. For example, Ford utilizes our on-board automotive navigation product in its Ford SYNC platform, which includes MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch. Ford began shipping this product in certain North American vehicles with the 2011 model year, and our navigation solution is currently deployed on 14 different Ford and Lincoln models. Ford and Lincoln models with our on-board automotive navigation product began shipping to South America with the 2012 model year. Our automobile manufacturer and OEM customers pay us a royalty fee upon production of a vehicle with our automotive navigation solutions.
As part of our efforts to generate revenue from local mobile advertising, we acquired Local Merchant Services, Inc., or
ThinkNear, in October 2012. Our mobile advertising platform is marketed as Scout Advertising and is focused on providing scalable tools and services that will help brick-and-mortar advertisers discover and drive more customers. We help advertisers deliver hyper-local, performance based ads to consumers on connected mobile devices in both search and display-based ad formats. We also provide "drive to" reporting to our advertisers, which is the ability to measure how many consumers took action to drive to a location after viewing an advertisement. The targeting capabilities we acquired from ThinkNear allow us to target users within close proximity of specific locations, and we also leverage keywords and situational targeting to reach the right users for our advertising partners. Our platform provides the ability to deliver ads to thousands of mobile applications and is compatible with all of the major U.S. mobile operating systems.
Key components of our results of operations
Sources of revenue
We offer voice-guided, real time, turn by turn, mobile navigation service under
several brand names including Scout by Telenav and Telenav GPS as well as under
wireless carrier brands (or "white label" brands) including Sprint Navigation,
AT&T Navigator and Your Navigator Deluxe. Our technology also powers automotive
navigation solutions that provide accurate, easy to use LBS to drivers,
including search, POI and traffic services. Our enterprise LBS allow enterprises
to monitor and manage mobile workforces and assets by using our LBS platform to
track job status and the location of workers, field assets and equipment. We
have introduced other LBS solutions with new business models and distribution
channels in our current LBS market and adjacent markets, including location
based mobile advertising and premium LBS. While we have already introduced
certain components or initial versions of several of these LBS solutions, the
scope and timing of broader and more commercially viable offerings is uncertain.
The ultimate scope and timing of any future releases are dependent on many
factors, including adoption by wireless carrier customers, automobile
manufacturers and OEMs of our LBS; end user adoption and preferences; the
quality, features and timing of our product offerings; the impact of
competition; and market acceptance of mobile advertising and social networking.
We believe our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments and anticipated
cash flows from operations will be sufficient to cover the costs of these
anticipated efforts for the foreseeable future.
We primarily derive our revenue from our wireless carrier customers for their
end users' subscriptions to our LBS, as well as from activation fees for certain
of our services. Our wireless carrier customers pay us based on several
different revenue models, including (1) a revenue sharing arrangement that may
include a minimum fee per end user, (2) a fixed annual fee for any number of
subscribers (up to specified thresholds) receiving our services as part of
bundles with other voice and data services, (3) a monthly or annual subscription
fee per end user, or (4) based on usage. Certain of our contracts provide our
wireless carrier customers with discounts based on the number of end users
paying for our services in a given month. In general, our wireless carrier
customers pay us a lower monthly fee per end user if an end user subscribes to
our LBS as part of a bundle of mobile data or voice services than if an end user
subscribes to our LBS on a standalone basis. In addition, we derive revenue from
the delivery of customized software product and royalties from the distribution
of this customized software in certain automotive navigation applications. We
also offer our applications directly to end users through application stores
such as the Apple App Store and Google Play. More recently, we have implemented
revenue models based on free versions of our services which can generate fees
through advertising supported arrangements, and subscriber upgrades to more
premium versions for a fee. In the future, we may have other revenue models. We
classify our revenue as either product or services revenue. Product revenue
consists primarily of revenue we receive from the delivery of customized
software and royalties from the distribution of this customized software in
certain automotive navigation applications, as well as hardware we sell in
conjunction with providing our enterprise LBS; services revenue consists
primarily of revenue we derive from our LBS, enterprise LBS, mobile advertising
and premium LBS.
Our wireless carrier customers are responsible for billing and collecting the fees they charge their subscribers for the right to use our LBS. With respect to Sprint, through June 30, 2013, we will receive a guaranteed fixed fee from Sprint for navigation applications provided to subscribers in bundles with other Sprint services. We recognize revenue for the aggregate annual fees monthly on a straight-line basis over the term of the agreement. When we are paid on a revenue sharing basis with our wireless carrier customers, the amount we receive varies depending on several factors, including the revenue share rate negotiated with the wireless carrier customer, the price charged to the subscriber by the wireless carrier customer, the specific sales channel of the wireless carrier customer in which the service is offered and the features and capability of the service. As a result of these factors, the amount we receive for a subscriber may vary considerably and is subject to change over time.
In addition, the amount we are paid per end user in our revenue sharing arrangements may also vary depending upon the metric used to determine the amount of the payment, including the number of end users at any time during a month, the average monthly paying end users, the number and timing of end user billing cycles and end user activity. Although our wireless carrier
customers generally have sole discretion about how to price our LBS to their
subscribers, our revenue sharing arrangements generally include monthly minimum
fees per end user. To a much lesser extent, we also sell our services directly
to consumers through application stores.
AT&T represented 39% and 38% of our revenue in the three months ended
September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Our agreement with AT&T expires in
March 2013 and provides that we will continue to be the exclusive provider of
white label GPS navigation services to AT&T. AT&T is not required to offer our
LBS.
Sprint represented 21% and 39% of our revenue in the three months ended
September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. We operate under an agreement with
Sprint, which we most recently amended in July 2012. Under this amended
agreement, we and Sprint have agreed to continue the fixed fee arrangement
related to the Sprint bundle through June 30, 2013, and to partner to generate
revenue from premium navigation and mobile advertising programs through
December 31, 2015. This amendment resulted in a significant reduction in our
revenue from Sprint beginning July 1, 2012 compared to revenue levels recognized
prior to the amendment. Sprint is not obligated to continue to bundle our
navigation services after June 30, 2013, and even if Sprint does continue to
bundle we may not receive meaningful compensation for such distribution of our
services. We anticipate that we will continue to depend on AT&T and to a lesser
extent, Sprint for a material portion of our revenue for the foreseeable future.
Ford represented 20% of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and less than 10% of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2011. We provide both an on-board and an off-board connected navigation solution to Ford. Our on-board solution consists of software, map and POI data loaded in the vehicle that provides voice-guided turn by turn navigation displayed on the vehicle screen. We recognize revenue from our on-board solutions as the related customized software is delivered to, and accepted by our customers. In addition, we recognize royalties earned from our on-board solutions generally as the software is reproduced and installed in vehicles. Our off-board connected solution enables a mobile device that is paired with the vehicle to activate in-vehicle text-based and voice-guided turn by turn navigation. We recognize revenue from our off-board connected solutions monthly based on annual subscriptions, which are subject to a maximum annual fee with Ford. Subscription fees from our wireless carrier customers represented a substantial majority of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011. Subscription fee revenue from our mobile navigation service represented 67% and 84% of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Subscription fee revenue from our mobile navigation service declined from the three months ended September 30, 2011 to the three months ended September 30, 2012, primarily due to the transition to a fixed fee with Sprint and a decrease in the number of paying subscribers for navigation services provided through AT&T and T-Mobile. Revenue from our automotive navigation solutions represented 20% and 8% of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Revenue from our enterprise LBS, mobile advertising and premium LBS represented 13% and 8% of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.
In the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, we generated 93% and 95%
of our revenue, respectively, in the United States. In absolute dollars, revenue
from our international operations increased in the three months ended September
30, 2012 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2011.
Cost of revenue
Our cost of revenue consists primarily of the cost of the third party content,
such as map, POI, traffic, gas price and weather data and voice recognition
technology that we use in providing our LBS. Our cost of revenue also includes
expenses associated with data center operations, customer support, the
amortization of capitalized software, recognition of deferred development costs
on specific projects and stock-based compensation. The largest component of our
cost of revenue is the fees we pay to providers of map and POI data, TomTom and
NAVTEQ. We have long term agreements with TomTom and NAVTEQ pursuant to which we
pay royalties according to a variety of different fee schedules, including on a
per use basis, on a per end user per month basis and on a fixed fee basis. With
respect to both TomTom and NAVTEQ, we are required to pay certain minimum fees
for access to their content by our mobile navigation customers. For our on-board
navigation solutions provided to Ford, we pay royalties on a per unit produced
basis. We classify our cost of revenue as either cost of product revenue or cost
of services revenue. Cost of product revenue consists primarily of the cost of
third party content we incur in providing our on-board auto navigation solutions
and recognition of deferred development costs, as well as the cost of hardware
we sell in conjunction with providing our enterprise LBS. Cost of services
revenue consists primarily of the costs associated with third party content,
data center operations, customer support, amortization of capitalized software
and stock-based compensation that we incur in providing our LBS, enterprise LBS,
mobile advertising and premium LBS.
We primarily provide customer support through a third party provider to whom we provide training and assistance with problem resolution. We use three outsourced, hosted data centers to provide our services and industry standard hardware to provide our LBS. We generally offer to our wireless carrier customers and generally maintain at least 99.9% uptime every month, excluding designated periods of maintenance. Our internal targets for service uptime are even higher. We have in the past, and may in the future, not achieve our targets for service availability and may incur penalties for failure to meet contractual service availability requirements, including loss of a portion of subscriber fees for the month or termination of our wireless carrier customer agreement. We use map and POI data from TomTom to provide services for Sprint's bundled offerings. We pay TomTom a percentage of the fees earned from Sprint for basic navigation services and gross advertising and a flat monthly fee per subscriber for premium services. We also pay TomTom certain guaranteed minimum payments for such services. The expiration of the license period for navigation services we provide using data provided by TomTom for Sprint's bundled offerings is June 30, 2013.
We expect that our cost of revenue will increase in both absolute dollars and as
a percentage of revenue as we increase the percentage of our revenue from
automotive navigation solutions, which generally have higher associated third
party content costs than our navigation offerings provided through wireless
carriers. In addition, our cost of revenue will increase as the number of our
end users increases, including those through freemium offerings, and average
usage of our services by end users increases. We anticipate that our cost of
revenue will also increase over time as we continue to enhance the richness of
the content offered by our products. Finally, our cost of revenue will be
impacted by amortization and depreciation expenses associated with planned data
center capacity and redundancy increases, as well as increased amortization and
recognition of deferred software development costs.
Operating expenses
We classify our operating expenses into three categories: research and
development, sales and marketing and general and administrative. Our operating
expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, which include salaries, bonuses,
payroll taxes, employee benefit costs and stock-based compensation expense.
Other expenses include marketing program costs, facilities, legal, audit and tax
consulting and other professional service fees. We allocate stock-based
compensation expense resulting from the amortization of the fair value of
stock-based awards granted, based on the department in which the award holder
works. We allocate overhead, such as rent and depreciation, to each expense
category based on headcount. Our operating expenses increased in absolute
dollars in the last three fiscal years, as we became a public company and built
our infrastructure and added employees across all categories to support our
growth, developed new services and products, and expanded into international
markets. We expect that certain costs will continue to increase over time,
including compensation and related costs; however, we are evaluating spending in
certain areas and taking actions to create greater efficiencies. We anticipate
continued investment of resources, including the hiring of additional headcount
in, or reallocation of employee personnel into, our strategic growth areas.
Research and development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of
personnel costs for our development employees and costs of outside consultants.
We have focused our research and development efforts on improving the ease of
use and functionality of our existing services, as well as developing new
service and product offerings in our existing markets and in new markets. A
majority of our research and development employees are located in our
development centers in China and, as a result, a portion of our research and
development expense is subject to changes in foreign exchange rates, notably the
Chinese Renminbi, or RMB.
Sales and marketing. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel
costs for our sales, product management and marketing staff, commissions earned
by our sales personnel and the cost of marketing programs, advertising and
promotional activities. Historically, a majority of our revenue has been derived
from wireless carriers, which bear much of the expense of marketing and
promoting our services to their subscribers. As a result, the majority of our
sales and marketing expenses relate to supporting our wireless carrier customers
and attracting new wireless carrier customers to offer our LBS. We expect to
increase our investment in sales and marketing activities, in part, to support
our initiatives in the auto industry and mobile advertising and to promote our
branded services directly to end users.
General and administrative. General and administrative expenses consist
primarily of personnel costs for our executive, finance, legal, human resources
and administrative personnel, legal, audit and tax consulting and other
professional services and corporate expenses.
Other income, net. Other income, net consists primarily of interest we earn on
our cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments.
Provision for income taxes. Our provision for income taxes primarily consists of corporate income taxes related to profits
earned in the United States. Our effective tax rate could fluctuate significantly on a quarterly basis and could be adversely affected by increases in nondeductible stock compensation or other nondeductible expenses, Our effective tax rate could also fluctuate due to a change in our earnings projections, changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets or liabilities, or changes in tax laws, regulations, or accounting principles, as well as certain discrete items.
Critical accounting policies and estimates We prepare our condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP. In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP and does not require our judgment in its application. In other cases, our judgment is required in selecting among available alternative accounting policies that allow different accounting treatment for similar transactions. The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements also requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs and expenses and related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. In many instances, we could reasonably use different accounting estimates, and in some instances changes in the accounting estimates are reasonably likely to occur from period to period. Accordingly, actual results could differ significantly from the estimates made by our management. To the extent that there are differences between our estimates and actual results, our future financial condition, results of operations and cash flows will be affected.
There have been no material changes in our critical accounting policies and
estimates during the three months ended September 30, 2012 as compared to the
critical accounting policies and estimates disclosed in Part II, Item 7 of our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2012.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
For information with respect to recent accounting pronouncements and the impact
of these pronouncements on our consolidated financial statements, see Note 1 of
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this
Form 10-Q.
Results of operations
The following tables set forth our results of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, as well as a percentage that each line item represents of our total revenue for those periods. The additional key metrics presented are used in addition to the financial measures reflected in the condensed consolidated statements of income data to help us evaluate growth trends, establish budgets and measure the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts. The period to period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of financial results to be achieved in future periods.
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