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iOS 6 “Sundance” And The Sunsetting Of Google Maps — For Google Maps, winter is coming. Potentially. — As you've undoubtedly seen by now, with the upcoming iOS 6 software, Apple intends to replace the Google Maps aspect of their default Maps application with their own, in-house version.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off” — A 3-D view of San Francisco from C3 Technologies — Between 2009 and 2011, Apple acquired three mapping companies in quick succession: Placebase, in 2009; 3-D mapping outfit Poly9 in 2010; and in 2011, C3 Technologies, a second 3-D mapping company.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iOS Low-Hanging Fruit — iOS has evolved in a fairly predictable manner over the years. Apple has done a good job tackling the lowest-hanging fruit on the to-do list, year after year. They crossed off a lot of big obvious features over the first few years: third-party apps, cut-copy-paste …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo — Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation. — The price for the company would be about $100 million, according to one of the sources. — Meebo's latest product promises to help users cut through information overload.| Ben Levisohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Sizing Up Facebook — As social-networking giant Facebook prepares to sell stock to the public for the first time, money managers are mobbing investor roadshows and deluging the deal's underwriters with requests for as many shares as they can get their hands on.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Facebook IPO Spin: Dueling Stories — Dueling Facebook IPO demand stories today: — Bloomberg at 4:53 am: Facebook IPO Said to Get Weaker-Than-Forecast Demand — Reuters at 5:53 am: Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed: source — Confusing? Yep. — Here's what's going on.
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| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Facebook's Zuckerberg says mobile first priority — (Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose limited role in promoting the No. 1 social network's market debut has drawn criticism, laid out its growth strategy to investors on Friday, saying that transforming its mobile and advertising experience are top priorities in 2012.
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| Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects: |
Intel To Build Chips Apple 'Can't Ignore,' For iPad, iPhone, CEO Says — Intel outlined its plan to catch up in the smartphone processor business at its annual investor day in Santa Clara, California, Thursday: crush competitors with the weight of its multi-billion-dollar fabs and the thousands …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Fleshes Out Privacy Policy To Comply With Data Protection Audits, Will Hold Q&A On Monday — Today Facebook will start sending the first of three billion notices to users about proposed changes to its privacy policy, which were made to comply with a Spring deadline …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Heidrick & Struggles Slaps Back at Thompson's Yahoo in Blame Game Over ResuMess — And it just gets worse in the controversy over Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson and the circumstances around how a fake college degree could get onto his bio. — Heidrick & Struggles is smacking back at him for insinuating …
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO — Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.
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| Somini Sengupta / Bits: |
Why Is Everyone Focused on Zuckerberg's Hoodie? — Who could have thought a hoodie could mean so much? — Over the last two days, there has been a great deal of mudslinging and hand-wringing about the significance of what Mark Zuckerberg, 27, the chief of executive of Facebook … | Reuters: |
Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle — (Reuters) - In early 2010, Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, summoned several of his top real estate and finance executives to his San Francisco home to float a bold idea.| Bangkok Post: |
HP restarts tablet manufacturing — SHANGHAI : Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced it will resume production of consumer tablets but says it will run them on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. — The world's largest technology firm suspended its touchPad WebOS tablet production line last year on poor sales.
| Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company: |
Twitter Developing Original Sports Content — @JohnMadden @MarvAlbert @BobCostas Watch your backs. #TwitterSports. — Sports fans are one of Twitter's core audiences. The microblogging giant hasn't been shy about their interest in working with established brands …
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| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging, Report Says — Apple's iMessage, the free, Internet-based text-messaging service, isn't the only thing AT&T's chief executive should lose sleep over. Facebook is also eating into text-messaging revenues for carriers, according to a report.
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