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Apple Drops the “Most Powerful Mapping Service Ever” Claim — Apple's CEO Tim Cook has honestly admitted that Apple Maps isn't as good as competing mapping services but the Apple website made a slightly contradictory claim. It said: … Apple Maps may be beautiful for some regions …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Including Maps on the original iPhone was a last-minute decision — The New York Times lays out an interesting tidbit from the latest on the series of articles from the Maps soap opera: Steve Jobs decided to make a mapping app for the iPhone just weeks before its launch event.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Take A Closer Look At The Icon For Apple's Terrible Maps App — iPhones used to come with Google Maps, but Apple booted Google after the two companies were unable to negotiate a new deal. — The whole thing fell apart over turn-by-turn directions. — The problem for Apple is, everyone (well, almost everyone) hates their maps app.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem? — There's no shortage of embarrassing instances where Apple (AAPL) Maps “fell short” — as Tim Cook's public apology put it — but on Friday Canadian reader John Garner pointed me to a particularly striking one. Jason Matheson, a fellow Canadian … | John Boudreau / Mercury News: |
Apple taps obscure Asian suppliers to bring the iPhone and other products to the masses — BADE, Taiwan — On a November afternoon two years ago, a taxi pulled up to the gate of Ta Liang Technology, one of countless nondescript companies that make up the global gadget supply chain.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Facebook revamps Messenger iOS app with Favorites, new chat UI, better performance — Facebook's been on a bit of a roll with iOS development lately. Just over a month ago, the company released a major update to its flagship app that offered tangible boosts in performance and responsiveness.
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Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson) — Can I be real with you? Real real? — I'm TIRED of answering this question so I'd rather write it out and just point people to this post. — Let me start in reverse. — I can tell you every detail of the day I got fired aka … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Nook GlowLight e-reader price drops to $119 — Just ahead of Amazon shipping out its highly anticipated Kindle Paperwhite, the Nook GlowLight gets a price chop. — As Amazon gets set to ship out the Kindle Paperwhite, its new e-ink e-reader that features an integrated light, its chief rival appears to be getting a price cut.| Scot Wingo / Amazon Strategies: |
Amazon Lending - Amazon starts loaning capital to sellers to help them scale — Sellers are reporting that Amazon has started an interesting new program called Amazon Lending from Amazon Capital Services Inc. (at amazoncapital.com which redirects to amazonservices.com for now).| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Shares Jump More Than 6% After Gifts Launch. (Hooray For New Revenue Streams.) — Well, Facebook shareholders sure like the sound of Gifts. — Around Wall Street's close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds — As part of its latest round of “spring cleaning,” Google just announced that it is shuttering AdSense for Feeds. The service, which allows publishers to earn a bit of extra revenue by adding Google's ads to their RSS feeds … | Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't — Coupons, Pitches Tied to Smartphone Search Get a Yes; Don't ‘Spray and Pray’ — In 2010, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, “Mobile advertising really sucks.” Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is slowly being written.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
US Appeals court rules Motorola can't enforce injunction against Microsoft in Germany... again — In another face of the ever turning world of patent battles, Reuters reports Microsoft has snagged a victory over Motorola as the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in its favor today.
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