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May 12, 2012, 11:45 AM

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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.
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 …
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.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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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