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iOS 6: Apple drops Google Maps, debuts in-house ‘Maps’ with incredible 3D mode — Rough mockup showing the user-enabled 3D mode (on the right) — According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application.
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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.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iCloud beta website reveals plans for Notes and Reminders web apps, affirms iOS 6 beta coming soon — We know that Apple has been busy tweaking their iCloud.com website and testing new features like iOS 5-like notification banners, and now it appears that Apple is expanding the website's web-application library.
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| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
| 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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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
Video of Steve Jobs Parodying ‘Ghostbusters’ Surfaces — Apple fans must be dying to get a peek into Craig Elliott's attic. After he released a video last week of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs acting as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he aired another one exclusively on Bloomberg TV.
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Sony, Panasonic Fall to 30-Year Lows — Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. (6752), Japan's biggest consumer-electronics makers, fell to the lowest level in three decades after forecasting earnings that missed estimates because of a failure to end losses from TVs.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn Is NOT Buying Monster: Here's The Real Story — Just got off the phone with a source close to LinkedIn. — LinkedIn is not going to buy Monster, and it was never particularly interested in doing so. — Basically, a little while back, Monster's Bank of America bankers called LinkedIn …
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PE Hub Blog and Business Insider
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone — A venture with $9 million in backing wants to establish a locked-down domain. — A security researcher has won investments of more than $9 million to incorporate a tightly policed section of the Internet reserved for banks …
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